Watch UK Trailer For Psychological Mystery Quake

Ahead of it’s World Premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival later this month Alief have released the UK Trailer for Icelandic psychological mystery Quake.

Tinna Hrafnsdóttir directs and stars this film based on the best-selling novel, Grand Mal/ Quake: A Novel, by Audur Jonsdóttir. The film promises to explore the blurred lines fact and fiction, reality and imagination. After an bad epileptic fit, a young mother is left with memory loss. With her child with her she becomes terrified the authorities will take her son, she tries to piece together everything. Only to unearth repressed childhood memories from her past.

When it comes to Icelandic films, nothing is straight forward, dark, twisted they way we like it!

Quake follows Saga (Briem), a single mother in her late thirties, who gets hit by a fierce epileptic attack walking in a public park with her six-year-old son resulting in a total memory loss. Afraid of being considered unable to take care of her son, Saga attempts to hide her state from others and occupies herself digging for the answers she needs. As she struggles to gather bits and pieces from her forgotten life, repressed memories that Saga unconsciously blocked as a child suddenly start to come back, revealing a painful truth about herself and the past.

Quake is a shocking and revelatory exploration of the blurred lines between fact and fiction, reality and imagination, and where mother ends and child begins.

The film stars Anita Briem, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir, and Tinna Hrafnsdóttir. Quake will be released in the UK and Ireland in 2022, with the release in Iceland coming in January 2022. The film have its World Premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on 20th November.