Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir (born 1 August 1984) is an Icelandic

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

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. Ása graduated with an MA in filmmaking from

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in 2012. Ása's 2017 feature film, ''The Swan'', was based on

Guðbergur Bergsson Guðbergur Bergsson (16 October 1932 – 4 September 2023) was an Icelandic writer born in Grindavík. He attended the University of Iceland for his Teaching degree and then studied literature at the University of Barcelona. He was one of the le ...

's 1991 book of the same name. Her second film, ''

A Letter from Helga ''A Letter from Helga'' () is a 2022 Icelandic film written and directed by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir. ''A Letter from Helga'' is a drama set in a remote fjord in 1940's Iceland, where a young farmer Bjarni begins an affair with his neighbo ...

'', was based on Bergsvein Birgisson's 2010 book of the same name.

Filmography

Director * ''Love Story'' (2012) – short * ''You and Me'' (2015) – short * ''The Swan'' (2017) * ''Last Dance'' (2020) – short * ''

'' (2022)

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Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir
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