Fridrik Thór Fridriksson

Icelandic storytelling – comedy and sadness hand-in-hand

An Icelandic film director and producer. He is the founder of the first Icelandic magazine devoted to the art of film and the cofounder of the Reykjavik Film Festival. His second feature film Children of Nature was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film – it became the first Icelandic film ever nominated for an Oscar.

“I had a really good time visiting the Visegrad Film Forum. The city of Bratislava is beautiful and I shared some good laughs with the audience at my master class.”