Interview Sakaris Stórá 'Vetrarmorgun'
Channel: TEDDY AWARD
Date: 2014-02-12

28. TEDDY AWARD im Rahmen der 64. Internationalen Filmfestspiele Berlin
Interview with Sakaris Stórá  - Director of the film 'Vetrarmorgun'

Interview by Philipp Schmidt
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'Vetramorgun' ('Winter Morning')
FO, 2013
Directed by Sakaris Stórá
Cast: Armgarð Mortensen, Helena Heðinsdóttir, Rasmus V. Samuelse

Maria hesitates when her best friend Birita offers her some pills, but – what the hell? Her mother’s away and they are both desperate to have some fun tonight. They set off and, once the drug takes effect, start euphorically planning how they might finally escape their dreary island. But they only manage to wind up at a party where thez continue celebrating. Maria’s pupils are wide open in her delicate face. She may be high, but she doesn’t feel at all well any more. It now transpires that Birita has plans for her friend: she wants Maria finally to have sex with a boy and put a stop to the stupid gossip about her being a lesbian. The film stays very close to its protagonists; it succeeds in depicting their insecurities and making apparent their fears and their pain without ridiculing them.

Sakaris Stórá
Born in 1986 and raised in Skopun in the Faroe Islands. After graduation at the Nordland College of Art and Film in Norway, he returned to the Faroe Islands to pursue his goal as a screenwriter and director of giving the Faroese language and culture a voice in the film world. In 2014, his short film Winter Morning (Vetrarmorgun), won the Grand Prize at the Generation program at the Berlinale.