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“Perhaps I’m already dead?” says a little boy, to himself. But these words are spoken in an unsettling world where no one can confirm this to be true or false for him.
“Perhaps I’m already dead?” says the child, and no one will confirm if this is true or false. He is on a journey; events having strayed from their course without anyone knowing why or how. He makes his way through unsettling landscapes, through memory and imagination and through ruins where he plays. In this mythical landscape, this child can no longer rely on reality for truth, so he must continue searching. As he journeys through these strange lands, he encounters a range of enigmatic figures who are threatening and welcoming in turn, who teach him how to become who he is. As the half-remembered fragments of the past return to this child, ‘The Wind Blew On’ shows us scenes of a life lived after the end of the world, and the eternal search for an escape from fate. This is a story about a future world where lines between memory, fate and imagination are blurred. This child must face a world that is desolate and frightening, but ultimately still hold moments of beauty. In this world the adults lose hope, so this child must create his own hope and future.

Credits

Director
Katrin Olafsdottir
Screenwriter
Katrín Ólafsdóttir
Producer
Katrin Olafsdóttir, Vincent Juillerat, Andres Mardones

About the Director

Katrín Ólafsdóttir
Katrín Ólafsdóttir is a director and producer from Iceland currently based in London. She studied at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine d’Angers, the Binger Film Lab and is a Torino Film Lab alumna. She started her career as a dancer and choreographer and moved into film with her debut ‘Slurpinn & Co.’, which he directed, produced, wrote, choreographed and acted in. She’s directed and pro