Exclusive: New Europe Film Sales has unveiled a fresh raft of deals for Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason’s family drama The Love That Remains, which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The Warsaw-based company has sold the movie to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Germany (Plaion), Japan (Gaga), Turkey (Filmarti), Czech Republic (Aerofilms), Ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom), Portugal (Alambique), Indonesia (Falcon) and Ukraine (Kyiv Music Film).
These sales follow previously announced deals to the UK (Curzon), North America (Janus) and France (Jour2Fête).
The Love That Remains follows a family as it navigates the parents’ separation, amid conflicted emotions around life-long bonds, faded love and shared life memories.
The drama is Pálmason’s fourth feature after Winter Brothers (2017), A White, White Day (2019) and Denmark-set missionary drama Godland (2022), which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard and went on to be Oscar nominated.
The film world premiered in the non-competitive Cannes Premiere section, but clinched...
The Warsaw-based company has sold the movie to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Germany (Plaion), Japan (Gaga), Turkey (Filmarti), Czech Republic (Aerofilms), Ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom), Portugal (Alambique), Indonesia (Falcon) and Ukraine (Kyiv Music Film).
These sales follow previously announced deals to the UK (Curzon), North America (Janus) and France (Jour2Fête).
The Love That Remains follows a family as it navigates the parents’ separation, amid conflicted emotions around life-long bonds, faded love and shared life memories.
The drama is Pálmason’s fourth feature after Winter Brothers (2017), A White, White Day (2019) and Denmark-set missionary drama Godland (2022), which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard and went on to be Oscar nominated.
The film world premiered in the non-competitive Cannes Premiere section, but clinched...
- 6/4/2025
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Over three features set in his native Iceland, Hlynur Pálmason has established a distinctive feel for the power of landscapes and elemental forces to shape human relationships, positioning them in stark relief. A feeling as intimate as isolation can take on epic dimensions under the writer-director’s gaze, notably in his 2022 head-turner Godland, an austerely beautiful study of man vs. nature whose spirituality is pierced by shards of wily humor and Lynchian strangeness. Similar qualities are evident in The Love That Remains (Ástin sem eftir er), albeit on a smaller canvas of domestic breakdown.
Serving as his own Dp — and shooting on 35mm in Academy ratio — Pálmason’s expansive sense of composition remains striking in this drama of a ruptured marriage, which is never less than compelling even at its most frustrating. His untethered imagination generates images that can function as visual metaphors or abstract enigmas. But as the film...
Serving as his own Dp — and shooting on 35mm in Academy ratio — Pálmason’s expansive sense of composition remains striking in this drama of a ruptured marriage, which is never less than compelling even at its most frustrating. His untethered imagination generates images that can function as visual metaphors or abstract enigmas. But as the film...
- 5/31/2025
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Janus Films has acquired all North American rights to The Love That Remains, the drama from Iceland’s Hlynur Pálmason that made its debut in the Premieres section of this month’s Cannes festival.
The deal follows Janus’ acquisition two-and-a-half years ago of Palmason’s Godland, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2022.
The Love That Remains stars Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Gudnason as parents navigating their separation over a year in the life of their family. Also appearing is Pálmason’s Icelandic sheepdog Panda, which won the Palm Dog award at Cannes.
The film was produced...
The deal follows Janus’ acquisition two-and-a-half years ago of Palmason’s Godland, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2022.
The Love That Remains stars Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Gudnason as parents navigating their separation over a year in the life of their family. Also appearing is Pálmason’s Icelandic sheepdog Panda, which won the Palm Dog award at Cannes.
The film was produced...
- 5/29/2025
- ScreenDaily
Janus Films has acquired all North American rights to The Love That Remains, the drama from Iceland’s Hlynur Pálmason that made its debut in the Premieres section of this month’s Cannes festival.
The deal follows Janus’ acquisition two-and-a-half years ago of Palmason’s Godland, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2022.
The Love That Remains stars Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Gudnason as parents navigating their separation over a year in the life of their family. Also appearing is Pálmason’s Icelandic sheepdog Panda, which won the Palm Dog award at Cannes.
The film was produced...
The deal follows Janus’ acquisition two-and-a-half years ago of Palmason’s Godland, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2022.
The Love That Remains stars Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Gudnason as parents navigating their separation over a year in the life of their family. Also appearing is Pálmason’s Icelandic sheepdog Panda, which won the Palm Dog award at Cannes.
The film was produced...
- 5/29/2025
- ScreenDaily
Janus Films has acquired all North American rights to “The Love That Remains,” the new film from “Godland” director Hlynur Pálmason, which world premiered in Cannes Premieres at this month’s Cannes Film Festival. The deal was negotiated by Janus Films and New Europe Film Sales.
The acquisition marks the second collaboration between Janus Films and Pálmason, following “Godland, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and was shortlisted for best international feature film at the 2024 Academy Awards.
“The Love That Remains” centers around a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. “Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons,” according to a statement.
The film stars Saga Garðarsdóttir (“Woman at War”), Sverrir Gudnason (“Borg Vs. McEnroe”), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir (“Godland”), Þorgils Hlynsson (“Nest”) and Grímur Hlynsson (“Nest”).
Janus Films commented,...
The acquisition marks the second collaboration between Janus Films and Pálmason, following “Godland, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and was shortlisted for best international feature film at the 2024 Academy Awards.
“The Love That Remains” centers around a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. “Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons,” according to a statement.
The film stars Saga Garðarsdóttir (“Woman at War”), Sverrir Gudnason (“Borg Vs. McEnroe”), Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir (“Godland”), Þorgils Hlynsson (“Nest”) and Grímur Hlynsson (“Nest”).
Janus Films commented,...
- 5/29/2025
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
“Separated” is a fraught, transitional term in human relationships, prone to conflicting definitions by partners who have long been inclined towards conflict: a prelude to a permanent end for one, a conciliatory pause for the other. In Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason’s striking, emotionally febrile marital drama ”The Love That Remains,” artist Anna (Saga Gardarsdottir) is ready to be be separate rather than separated from her seafaring husband Magnus (Sverrir Gudnason), while he doggedly maintains a presence in the house she shares with their three children, and occasionally her bed as well. It’s a semblance of domestic stability that she finds ever less stabilizing.
Spiraling into surrealism as ordered lives and minds unravel, Pálmason’s fourth feature is an album of achingly felt, morbidly funny and increasingly haywire scenes from a marriage. Though very different in form and focus from the director’s 2022 stunner “Godland,” the new film shares with its predecessor an airy,...
Spiraling into surrealism as ordered lives and minds unravel, Pálmason’s fourth feature is an album of achingly felt, morbidly funny and increasingly haywire scenes from a marriage. Though very different in form and focus from the director’s 2022 stunner “Godland,” the new film shares with its predecessor an airy,...
- 5/26/2025
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason’s epic 2022 film Godland mapped the crisis of faith experienced by a 19th-century Danish priest on a mission to Iceland. A majestic tapestried shot of a horse skeleton lifts viewers from the difficult physical and emotional terrain of the film’s narrative world into a realm that is more formal, ethereal, and symbolic. Similarly, Pálmason’s fourth feature, The Love That Remains, which premiered at Cannes last weekend, is only in some layers a dark comedy about the varied pains experienced by a rural Icelandic family undergoing a separation of parents Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason). Horses […]
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The post “It’s Not Enough to Only Have Narrative”: Hlynur Pálmason on Cannes 2025 Premiere The Love That Remains first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 5/23/2025
- by Ritesh Mehta
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason’s epic 2022 film Godland mapped the crisis of faith experienced by a 19th-century Danish priest on a mission to Iceland. A majestic tapestried shot of a horse skeleton lifts viewers from the difficult physical and emotional terrain of the film’s narrative world into a realm that is more formal, ethereal, and symbolic. Similarly, Pálmason’s fourth feature, The Love That Remains, which premiered at Cannes last weekend, is only in some layers a dark comedy about the varied pains experienced by a rural Icelandic family undergoing a separation of parents Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and Magnús (Sverrir Guðnason). Horses […]
The post “It’s Not Enough to Only Have Narrative”: Hlynur Pálmason on Cannes 2025 Premiere The Love That Remains first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “It’s Not Enough to Only Have Narrative”: Hlynur Pálmason on Cannes 2025 Premiere The Love That Remains first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 5/23/2025
- by Ritesh Mehta
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A fractured family clinging to fragments of love (or at least what remains) is the emotional core of The Love That Remains, Hlynur Pálmason’s intimate study of separation and the ghosts it leaves behind. In this Icelandic drama, which premiered in the Cannes Première strand in May 2025, Pálmason reunites with his real-life children—Ída, Þorgils, and Grímur—to chronicle the liminal space between togetherness and divorce.
Magnus (Sverrir Guðnason), a herring-trawler sailor, drifts between isolation at sea and awkward visits to the family homestead; Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir), an artist who loses her harbour-side studio to a crane’s wrenching lift, oscillates between exasperation and pity as she co-parents their three children.
Playful absurdity undercuts melancholy throughout—a jazz-infused piano score threads through fantasy sequences that puncture the film’s realist veneer. Yet the film’s true distinctiveness lies in its collage structure: scenes that snap-cut from domestic picnics to dream logic,...
Magnus (Sverrir Guðnason), a herring-trawler sailor, drifts between isolation at sea and awkward visits to the family homestead; Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir), an artist who loses her harbour-side studio to a crane’s wrenching lift, oscillates between exasperation and pity as she co-parents their three children.
Playful absurdity undercuts melancholy throughout—a jazz-infused piano score threads through fantasy sequences that puncture the film’s realist veneer. Yet the film’s true distinctiveness lies in its collage structure: scenes that snap-cut from domestic picnics to dream logic,...
- 5/19/2025
- by Arash Nahandian
- Gazettely
Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason returns to Cannes with his fourth feature, “The Love That Remains.” Following his Oscar-shortlisted “Godland,” many expected Pálmason to go bigger. Instead, he went personal.
“People tend to think you always need to go ‘bigger,’ but I’m not stimulated by that. It would make sense to maybe work in English; there are only 350,000 people in Iceland, which makes this language almost extinct. But I wanted to dive into the moment,” he explains.
“I needed to capture it all before it goes away, before the kids grow up and it’s too late. Life passes you by in the blink of an eye. It goes by so fast.”
Starring Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Guðnason, and Pálmason’s own children, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Þorgils Hlynsson and Grímur Hlynsson, “The Love That Remains” takes a peek at a family that, despite the parents’ split, still cares for each other very much.
“People tend to think you always need to go ‘bigger,’ but I’m not stimulated by that. It would make sense to maybe work in English; there are only 350,000 people in Iceland, which makes this language almost extinct. But I wanted to dive into the moment,” he explains.
“I needed to capture it all before it goes away, before the kids grow up and it’s too late. Life passes you by in the blink of an eye. It goes by so fast.”
Starring Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Guðnason, and Pálmason’s own children, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Þorgils Hlynsson and Grímur Hlynsson, “The Love That Remains” takes a peek at a family that, despite the parents’ split, still cares for each other very much.
- 5/13/2025
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Curzon has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Hlynur Palmason’s The Love That Remains.
The film will launch in Cannes Premiere on Sunday, May 18.
The Love That Remains captures the year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Gudnason lead the cast, alongside Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Þorgils Hlynsson, Grímur Hlynsson, Anders Mossling and Ingvar Sigurðsson.
Anton Mani Svansson of Iceland’s Still Vivid and Katrin Pors of Denmark’s Snowglobe produced the film. Co-producers are are Mikkel Jersin and Eva Jakobsen at Snowglobe, Nima Yousefi at Sweden’s Hobab, Didar Domehri...
The film will launch in Cannes Premiere on Sunday, May 18.
The Love That Remains captures the year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Gudnason lead the cast, alongside Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Þorgils Hlynsson, Grímur Hlynsson, Anders Mossling and Ingvar Sigurðsson.
Anton Mani Svansson of Iceland’s Still Vivid and Katrin Pors of Denmark’s Snowglobe produced the film. Co-producers are are Mikkel Jersin and Eva Jakobsen at Snowglobe, Nima Yousefi at Sweden’s Hobab, Didar Domehri...
- 5/13/2025
- ScreenDaily
Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason, known for the Oscar-shortlisted film Godland, has finished filming his fourth feature, The Love That Remains. This personal drama set in Eastern Iceland examines a year in the life of a family dealing with parental separation. The film skillfully mixes fun and touching scenes, showing the beauty of Iceland’s changing seasons.
New Europe Film Sales, based in Warsaw, has gained the international sales rights to the film, continuing its successful relationship with Pálmason. The company has handled all of his feature film sales, including “Winter Brothers,” “A White, White Day,” and “Godland.”
“The Love That Remains” has a great Nordic cast, including Saga Garðarsdóttir from “Woman at War” and Sverrir Gudnason from “Borg vs. McEnroe.” They are joined by Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Þorgils Hlynsson, and Grímur Hlynsson, who all acted in Pálmason’s earlier short film “Nest.”
Pálmason serves as both director and photographer, showcasing his artistic vision.
New Europe Film Sales, based in Warsaw, has gained the international sales rights to the film, continuing its successful relationship with Pálmason. The company has handled all of his feature film sales, including “Winter Brothers,” “A White, White Day,” and “Godland.”
“The Love That Remains” has a great Nordic cast, including Saga Garðarsdóttir from “Woman at War” and Sverrir Gudnason from “Borg vs. McEnroe.” They are joined by Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Þorgils Hlynsson, and Grímur Hlynsson, who all acted in Pálmason’s earlier short film “Nest.”
Pálmason serves as both director and photographer, showcasing his artistic vision.
- 1/13/2025
- by Naser Nahandian
- Gazettely
Exclusive: New Europe Film Sales has boarded Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason’s upcoming feature The Love That Remains, his latest work after Oscar-shortlisted work Godland.
The sales acquisition sees the Warsaw-based company team once again with Icelandic production company Still Vivid and Denmark’s Snowglobe.
The new feature that was shot in Eastern Iceland under-the-radar and is due to be completed in 2025. According to the official description, the drama “tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.
New Europe will commence sales on the movie at the Berlinale’s European Film Market in February. Prior to that, the team behind the film will present first clips to attendees of Göteborg Nordic Film Market at the end of this month.
The...
The sales acquisition sees the Warsaw-based company team once again with Icelandic production company Still Vivid and Denmark’s Snowglobe.
The new feature that was shot in Eastern Iceland under-the-radar and is due to be completed in 2025. According to the official description, the drama “tenderly captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.
New Europe will commence sales on the movie at the Berlinale’s European Film Market in February. Prior to that, the team behind the film will present first clips to attendees of Göteborg Nordic Film Market at the end of this month.
The...
- 1/13/2025
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Göteborg’s prime Nordic Film Market where last year’s Cannes sensations “The Girl with the Needle,” “Armand” and “When the Light Breaks” were first showcased as works in progress, has announced exclusively to Variety its full 2025 program.
Over Jan. 29-31, more than 60 completed films, titles in development and post-production will be showcased to 500-plus industry delegates from 38 countries.
As always, several acclaimed-directors will share the spotlight with promising newcomers, as reflected in the centre-piece 15-title Works in Progress lineup.
Five years after his Cannes selection with “Godland,” Iceland’s festival darling Hlynur Pálmason makes a comeback with “The Love that Remains,” a vignette-driven family drama toplining Sverrir Guðnason and Saga Garðarsdóttir (“Balls”).
A Cannes Directors’ Fortnight habitué, Afghan-born Shahrbanoo Sadat (“The Orphanage”) will bring “No Good Men,” her first romcom, set inside a Kabul newsroom in 2021 pre-Taliban ruled-Afghanistan.
Sweden’s Lisa Langseth (“Pure”) returns to feature length after her...
Over Jan. 29-31, more than 60 completed films, titles in development and post-production will be showcased to 500-plus industry delegates from 38 countries.
As always, several acclaimed-directors will share the spotlight with promising newcomers, as reflected in the centre-piece 15-title Works in Progress lineup.
Five years after his Cannes selection with “Godland,” Iceland’s festival darling Hlynur Pálmason makes a comeback with “The Love that Remains,” a vignette-driven family drama toplining Sverrir Guðnason and Saga Garðarsdóttir (“Balls”).
A Cannes Directors’ Fortnight habitué, Afghan-born Shahrbanoo Sadat (“The Orphanage”) will bring “No Good Men,” her first romcom, set inside a Kabul newsroom in 2021 pre-Taliban ruled-Afghanistan.
Sweden’s Lisa Langseth (“Pure”) returns to feature length after her...
- 1/13/2025
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
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