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Grimur Hakonarson’s celebrated short film, Braedrabylta, picked up three more film awards recently bringing to a total of 14 awards this film has collected so far.

On the weekend of the 14th and 15th of June the director received three awards in three different countries while he was in Spain to witness his masterpiece collecting the youth jury prize at the Huesca short film festival.

At the same time he received news that the film had also won the grand prize at the Kartkofil Short Film Festival in Bosnia, and was later informed it had also won the Grand Prize at the Milan Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in Italy.

It all came as a surprise for Hakonarson who was apparently unaware that the film had been entered into the latter two competitions.

“When I got the phone call from Bosnia it stopped being funny. I had no idea that my film even was at those festivals in Bosnia and Milan” Hakonarson said, obviously very surprised.

Braedrabylta follow the story of two gay men in rural Iceland, reluctant to admit they are attracted to each other, and embroiled in a competition of glima, the unique Icelandic wrestling sport, to cover their affection. “Braedrabylta” (literally, brother tumble) is part of the wrestling vocabulary where both contenders fall to the ground and no one wins.