Programmed January 2026

Directed by Hlynur Pálmason

Featuring an interview with Pálmason, part of Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series The expansive, wintry landscapes of rural Iceland and Denmark provide the majestic physical and psychological backdrops to the breathtaking films of director Hlynur Pálmason, whose acclaimed latest, The Love That Remains , comes to theaters in January. Whether capturing the rift that forms between two brothers working in an isolated limestone quarry in his intense feature debut Winter Brothers or the arduous journey of a Danish priest across nineteenth-century Iceland in his painterly epic Godland , Pálmason’s films employ a sensorially rich visual lyricism to probe profound questions of faith, masculinity, time’s passage, and the human relationship to nature.