This year's offering from Iceland was different from previous films in that it was almost entirely set in Reykjavik (it's been more typical for Icelandic films to get out into the countryside -- why not when the geography is so stunning?).
"Fishbowl" follow three characters during the lead up to the financial meltdown of 2008 (the economic situation is both foreground and background in the narrative. There is a young single mother who works at a daycare and moonlights as a prostitute; an alcoholic writer and an ex-football player who joins a financial firm at the centre of the banking scandal. Their stories begin to connect in various ways over the course of the film and the use of a slightly fragmented timeline is very effective.
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