And Breathe Normally

And Breathe Normally (Andið eðlilega, 2018) is an Icelandic drama you can watch online on iFILM. Out on the windswept Reykjanes peninsula, two women cross paths: Lára, a local single mother scraping by, and Adja, an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau. Ísold Uggadóttir wrote and directed.

Lára is nearly broke and close to losing her home, hanging on to an airport job and to her young son. Adja is stuck in the gears of the Nordic asylum system, her future resting in other people's hands. Chance throws the two together, and a quiet, uneven bond grows between them — built not on speeches but on small, practical kindnesses.

Uggadóttir's debut took the directing prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at Sundance. Cold northern light, an unhurried pace, zero melodrama. One for viewers who love hushed European films about people living on the margins. Stream And Breathe Normally (2018) online on iFILM.