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Director Nanna Krístín Magnúsdóttir
Inspired by a story by Jón Ármann Steinsson
Written by Sunna Guðnadóttir and Jón Ármann Steinsson
Supported by Icelandic Film Centre, CineKid and RÚV
Eleven-year-old Elva has always been too much, too loud, too creative, too chaotic. When she accidentally derails her mother's opera premiere, she decides the best thing she can do is give her mother space and move to her estranged father in a remote town in Iceland. But arriving in Iceland is nothing like she imagined. Her father is nowhere to be found, her grandparents deflect every question about his whereabouts, and starting a new school in the middle of winter only deepens her loneliness and isolation. When Elva discovers the devastating truth about why her father has stayed away, she finds an unlikely confidant in Snowden, a talking polar bear who appears from the Arctic wilderness and becomes the friend she didn't know she needed.As the whole town launches a hunt for the bear, Elva will do anything to protect him. And in doing so, she discovers something she wasn't looking for: a community that accepts her exactly as she is, and the courage to stop running from the people who love her.