A lighthouse keeper prepares his funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Now, as his one hundredth birthday nears, Trausti senses the hand of death upon him. Half Elf is a modern Icelandic fairy-tale, where life is celebrated – despite everything, despite ourselves and despite the reality that awaits all of us.
Jón Bjarki Magnússon
Jón Bjarki Magnússon is an anthropological filmmaker with background in journalism and poetry. He studied creative writing at the University of Iceland and received his MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität, Berlin, in 2018. His works include award-winning journalism, a book of poetry, and a short film, Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (2018), which was awarded for ‘the most outstanding short film on social, cultural and biological anthropology or archaeology’ in 2019. Jón Bjarki´s journalistic work has appeared on various international media platforms. He is a regular contributor to the Icelandic bi-weekly newspaper Stundin, he does project work for Filmmaking For Fieldwork (F4F™) and he is the founder of SKAK BÍÓFILM.