Olafur Sveinsson

  • Olafur Sveinsson – Hlemmur AKA Last Stop (2002)

    2001-2010ArthouseDocumentaryIcelandOlafur Sveinsson

    Synopsis:
    Icelandic filmmaker Olafur Sveinsson takes on the challenge of documenting one of his native country’s social ills by focusing on the homeless people taking shelter in the capital city of Reykjavik’s main bus terminal in his 2002 sociological documentary Hlemmur (Last Stop). Most of the people Sveinsson interviewed were either mentally handicapped or grappling with some sort of debilitating addiction, both conditions which obviously had tremendously negative impacts on the subjects’ personal lives and resulted in their social marginalization. Read More »

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