BAND

By Álfrún ÖRNÓLFSDÓTTIR

ALIEF - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2022

Off-beat send-up of blind ambition that celebrates female friendship, Iceland’s Post Performance Blues Band give themselves one year to become avant-garde pop stars—or relinquish their dream forever.

Festivals
& Awards

HotDocs 2022
Haugesund - Norwegian IFF 2022
New Nordic Films 2022
Nordisk Panorama 2022
Chicago IFF 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Musical
    • Countries
    • ICELAND
    • Languages
    • ICELANDIC, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Álfrún ÖRNÓLFSDÓTTIR
    • Producer(s)
    • Heather MILLARD (COMPASS FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Three bandmates, Álfrún, Saga and Hrefna, of The Post Performance Blues Band, are tired of playing to audiences of five at their gigs and getting paid in beer. Each of them is staring down 40 and exhausting themselves juggling motherhood and their artistic pursuits. They decide to give themselves one year to either become popstars or quit the band for good.

      Band member and filmmaker Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir puts herself, along with age and gender bias, on stage in this docu-parable about talented but not teenaged women trying to be successful in a youth-obsessed, overnight-success industry. Band allows gifted artists to perform the resilience and sisterhood that truly exists between life's messes, rejections and triumphs.