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The Importance of Being Icelandic

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The Importance of Being Icelandic
Directed byJon Gustafsson
Written byJon Gustafsson
Olga McVarrish
Caelum Vatnsdal
Produced byMarc Stephenson
Narrated byJon Gustafsson
Production
company
Marble Island Pictures
Release date
  • 1998 (1998)
Running time
42 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Importance of Being Icelandic is a 1998 documentary film by the filmmaker Jon Gustafsson (born in Iceland and living in Canada) that traces the steps of three Icelandic Canadians on a different quest of discovering their Icelandic heritage by going to Iceland. In addition to their time in Iceland, he returns with them to Canada and captures their reactions of the Islendingadagurinn celebrated each year at Gimli. The contrasts in perspective between his viewpoint on Canadian culture and that of three Icelandic-Canadians on a quest for their ancestral heritage is at the centre of the documentary.

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