When the Trees Come

Directed by Berglind Thrastardottir · 2024

As trees spread over Iceland's barren land, kids whisper that werewolves are returning, and when young Þröstur finds blood in his 13-year-old sister's sheets, he begins to wonder.

A fresh, fairytale take on a girl's first period, woven with Icelandic myth and climate anxiety.

In Iceland where trees are starting to grow over the barren landscape as the glaciers melt, rumors are spreading over the playground that with the trees the werewolves are coming back! One night young Þröstur wakes to fi

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