La Pietà

At the foot of Europe’s largest glacier, seven Icelandic siblings once lived in deliberate isolation, dedicating their lives to observing ice and nature long before climate change had a name. Their abandoned farmhouse becomes a living archive, animated by photographs, objects, and a 16mm film that restores gestures, spaces, and a vanished way of being in the world. Blending observational filmmaking with found footage, Rafa Molés and Pepe Andreu, the duo behind the 2020 unforgettable Icelandic story of Lobster Soup, return to the Arctic North to craft a poetic, contemplative elegy in which time, memory, and matter converge. The glacier – now wrapped in vast white shrouds in a desperate attempt to slow its melting – emerges as both subject and body, altar and loss. La Pietà is a quiet yet devastating meditation on ecological grief, reverence, and the belated effort to protect what once shaped our existence.