OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (Premiere)
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL (Official Competition)
OFFICIALS SELECTION - 2025 NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
From award-winning writer/director Hlynur Pálmason (Godland, A White, White Day) – one of cinema’s most singular contemporary artists – THE LOVE THAT REMAINS tenderly and hilariously captures a year in the life of a family of five, as the parents navigate their separation.
Though in the throes of a splitting up, Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and Magnus (Sverrir Gudnason) still spend time together for the sake of their three children, Ída and twins Þorgils and Grímur (played, remarkably, by the three real-life children of director Pálmason). Magnus works at sea, infrequently returning to land, where he asserts himself as the patriarch with limited efficacy. Anna is an artist whose vast and impressive works fail to receive suitable recognition. In their interactions, whilst there's sufficient indication of why the separation is happening, there's also the familiarity of a long-held love and a glimmer of a chance of reconciliation...
Taking playful and wonderful diversions into thrilling comedic and fantastical sequences, Pálmason's deeply felt film conveys so much love for its characters and the natural environment that they are in constant communion with, delivering a poignant look at the essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.

NEW ZEALAND PREMIERE SCREENINGS
2025 NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Touring nationally, 31 July-10 September
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VICTORIA PREMIERE SCREENINGS
2025 MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
7-24 August
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