The Importance of Being Icelandic

The Importance of Being Icelandic

In the documentary film "The Importance of Being Icelandic", the filmmaker Jon Gustafsson (born in Iceland and living in Canada) traces the steps of three Icelandic Canadians on a different quest of discovering their Icelandic heritage by going to Iceland. In addition to their time in Iceland, he returns with them to Canada and captures their reactions of the Islendingadagurinn celebrated each year at Gimli. The contrasts in perspective between his viewpoint on Canadian culture and that of three Icelandic-Canadians on a quest for their ancestral heritage is at the centre of the documentary.

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