Iceland sends 'Volcano' to Oscars

"Volcano"LONDON -- Iceland has selected Runar Runarsson's feature debut "Volcano" becasue it is entry for your foreign-language film Oscar. The helmer has known to his film as "a coming-of-age story from the 67-year-some guy.Inch Theodor Juliusson toplines just like a outdated school janitor forced having a distressing event to deal with his flaws also to learn to love. Margret Helga Johannsdottir plays his wife. The film preemed in Directors' Week at Cannes, and contains carried out at many other major festivals, including Toronto, where it examined inside the Discovery section. Furthermore, it plays as of this month's Chicago Film Festival. Pic was produced by Thor Sigurjonsson and Skuli Fr. Malmquist for Iceland's Zik Zak Filmworks, and Egil Dennerline for Denmark's Fine & Mellow Prods. TrustNordisk is handling foreign sales. The film was backed by New Danish Screen, Icelandic Film Center and Nordic Film and TV Fond. Runarsson's 2005 online video "Last Farm" was nominated with an Academy Award. His 2008 short "2 Wild wild birds" carried out in competish at Cannes. Contact Leo Barraclough at leo.barraclough@variety.com