About the film

No country epitomized this rise and fall better than Iceland. Their biggest heroes, the financial wizards, who only a few years ago were looked upon as Gods ruling over their own Garden of Eden in the North Atlantic were all thrown in jail. Amongst the chaos politics staggered on and an election of new leaders began. Against this backdrop the Idea of The Best Party was born. It started out as a joke inside the head of Iceland's most cynical and most controversial comedian Jon Gnarr. The Idea was to poke fun at the establishment that had failed so spectacularly. The Best Parties agenda was simple - in these hard times Mr. Gnarr wanted a secure, comfortable, and highly paid job with absolute power to hire his close friends for all the other important and influential jobs as well. The party promised an incorruptible and a drug free parliament by the year 2020 and Mr. Gnarr made it clear that he would not talk to any of the other party's unless they had watched the entire 5 seasons of the Wire. As the real election began, driven on by Tina Turners cheesy 80's rock anthem "Simply the Best", the Best Parties election campaign had developed an unstoppable momentum of its own. Jon Gnarr really won and is now the Mayor of Reykjavik. His friends have jobs and the Wire is being watched by the opposition with great interest. The message of the film is simple and positive. The deeper the shit you are in the more you should laugh, because out of disaster, heroes can come from unlikely places.

Wybrane nagrody i festiwale /Selected festivals and awards: 2011 - MFF Tribeca/Tribeca IFF, 2011 - CPH:DOX Kopenhaga/ CPH:DOX Copenhagen