THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET
POLISH TITLE: GRUNT POD NASZYMI STOPAMI
A warm, human film from an elderly home in Reykjavík, with a poetic eye for the small mysteries and miracles of everyday life – and a great love for life itself, as long as it lasts. Winter turns to summer, that turns to winter and, maybe, to summer again, for a group of elderly people living together in a grand old building in Reykjavík. It is an institution, but also a home. Some have lived a lifetime that spans almost a century. The daily actions they have performed throughout their lives are portrayed as meditative experiences, while their bodies and memory perform as creeks flowing down a mountain to the sea. A sensitive and humanistic film about life at the end of life.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Polska, Islandia
- RUNNING TIME:
- 82'
- YEAR:
- 2025
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Yrsa Roca Fannberg
- DOP:
- Wojciech Staroń
- EDITOR:
- Federico Delpero Bejar
- MUSIC:
- Skúli Sverrisson
- PRODUCTION:
- Staroń Film, Akkeri Films
Yrsa Roca Fannberg »
Director, screenwriter, cinematographer. She studied fine arts in London and creative documentary in Barcelona. She teaches creative documentary and documentary history at the University of Iceland and is a passionate analogue photographer. “The Ground Beneath Our Feet”, her latest documentary, premiered at CPH DOX 2025.