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Dreamland

Category |Economy, Environment, Politics, Pollution
Year | 2009
Country | Iceland
Running time | 89’ - 56’
Format | 35mm
Production | Ground Control Productions
Director | Thorfinnur Gudnason, Andri Snaer Magnason


Dreamland tells the story of a nation with abundance of choices gradually becoming caught up in a plan to turn its wilderness and beautiful nature into a massive system of hydro-electric and geothermal power plants with dams and reservoirs, built to power the increasing heavy industry that will soon make Iceland the largest aluminum smelter in the world.

How much unspoiled nature should we preserve and what do we sacrifice for clean, renewable energy? Dreamland gradually turns into a disturbing picture of corporate power taking over nature and small communities. It’s the dark side of green energy.

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