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HeimÞrá: In Thrall to Home (2018)

Directed by Erika MacPherson

Overview

Doubting details of her mother’s deathbed story, a skeptical daughter drags her brother on a genealogical goose chase through the Canadian prairies to the remote Icelandic highland. Determined to prove her mother spun tall tales, Erika delves into a basement full of file boxes only to find that family history triggers her own obsessive curiosity. Holed up with stacks of diaries, letters and pictures, Erika becomes spellbound by her increasing sense of belonging to an unfolding story.

Length 33 minutes

Actors

Erika MacPherson | Arne MacPherson | Lillian Vilborg Bjarnason MacPherson | Shannon Miller | Stanley Miller | Anna Guðný Halldórsdóttir