Ragnar BRAGASON (Sudavik, Iceland), an internationally recognised director of music videos and commercials, made his feature-film debut with the award-winning Fiasco (2000). He established himself with the diptych Children (2006) and Parents (2007), and the popular TV trilogy The Night Shift (2007), The Day Shift (2008), and The Prison Shift (2009). So far, Bragason has won fifteen Icelandic Edda awards, in several categories.

Ragnar Bragason

Equally dramatic as funny story about a girl who starts wearing her dead brother's heavy metal gear, becomes the village hell raiser and says she'll conquer the world. Latest film by productive Bragason, whose double film Children/Parents wowed Rotterdam in 2007.

IFFR 2014

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Spectrum

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Bragason has made an impressive diptych, inspired by Cassavetes, Godard and Leigh. Children is about a mother who desperately tries to keep custody of her three daughters, but doesn’t see how difficult life is for her son. And then her ex-husband turns up. Threatening, gripping and in black &amp; white. (See also Parents)

IFFR 2007

Children, 

Cinema of the Future: Sturm und Drang

Children

Second part of a diptych (see also Children) is also a must-see on its own. Film shot in black &amp; white with which the Icelander Bragason proves he deserves respect as a director. A painful and gripping story about chance encounters between a dentist, a businessman and a young mother, which bring to light untold secrets.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Ragnar Bragason

Filmography

Ragnar Bragason at IFFR

Children

Parents

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