When the Light Breaks

A young woman is forced to reframe the future she’d hoped for, in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s quietly breathtaking elegy of love, loss and acceptance.

From one sunset to the next, a young woman experiences a vibrant odyssey of emotions as she is forced to reframe the future she’d hoped for. When light breaks on a summer’s day, young art student Una is filled with love’s warm glow. By sunset, her world is turned upside down. What unfolds between causes heartbreak, but also requires Una to summon all her strength to keep her emotions in check.

Writer-director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s beautiful and quietly breathtaking elegy of love, loss and acceptance, with its striking 16mm cinematography and exquisite design, amplified by Elín Hall’s captivating performance, captures a precise sense of time, place and mood.