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Summerlight… and Then Comes the Night is a 2022 Icelandic tragicomedy directed by Elfar Aðalsteins, who also wrote the screenplay. In the film, set in a tiny Icelandic village, Elfar directed an all-Icelandic ensemble cast including Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Heida Reed and Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir, from his own screenplay adaptation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s celebrated novel of the same name from 2005, which received the Icelandic Literary Awards in 2006. The film premiered in the Best of Festival selection at Tallinn Black Nights IFF in 2022, was awarded Best Nordic Film Award at the Santa Barbara IFF and nominated for five Icelandic Film and Television Awards, including Best Picture.