Broken

JÓN ATLI JÓNASSON

A hard-boiled and modern thriller set in the side of Reykjavik no tourist would ever visit, a city full of contradictions, shot through with pitch-black humour and with a cast of unforgettable characters.

Two broken cops. One irretrievably damaged and the other an outcast. Dóra struggles to cope with life after taking a bullet to the head. Rado is the child of refugees, his career shunted off the tracks due to his family connections to an organised crime gang. But they’re the only ones available when a troubled teenager vanishes from a school trip.

In the search for the missing child, the mismatched pair tread on all the wrong toes, and the trail gets darker the further they pursue it. Set against the backdrop of a vicious vendetta, and a brutal turf war which embroils Rado’s family, the pair must follow the threads of corruption higher and higher, to the top of the exclusive apartment block on the outskirts of the city.

Jón Atli Jónasson is one of Iceland’s most celebrated playwrights, who has won the Icelandic drama prize (Griman) numerous times, as well as the Icelandic Film Prize for best script. He’s written several films, most notably The Deep , based on his own play, which was shortlisted for The 85th Academy Awards for best foreign feature 2015. He has been nominated for The Nordic Film Prize on three occasions, and is also the creator or co-creator of several television projects.