---
name: "Hlynur Pálmason"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hlynur-palmason"
fi1m_id: "hlynur-palmason"
imdb_id: "nm6249843"
tmdb_id: 1292227
wikidata_id: "Q31509858"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "30 September 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T20:35:57.908309+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Hlynur Pálmason

## Identity

Hlynur Pálmason

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hlynur-palmason
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hlynur-palmason
- **IMDb ID:** nm6249843
- **TMDB ID:** 1292227
- **Wikidata ID:** Q31509858
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlynur_P%C3%A1lmason, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31509858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6249843/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1292227

Producer and director. Born 30 September 1984 in Hornafjörður, Iceland.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 30 September 1984, Hornafjörður, Iceland
- **Also known as:** Хлинюр Паульмасон, 흘리뉘르 팔메이슨, 힐누르 팔마손
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hlynur_P%C3%A1lmason, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31509858, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6249843/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1292227

## Biography

Hlynur Pálmason is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter and visual artist. He was born on 30 September 1984 in Höfn í Hornafirði, Iceland. He studied film at the National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen, graduating in 2013, and lived in Denmark for around ten years before returning to Iceland.

Pálmason’s feature films include *Winter Brothers* (2017), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and won the Bodil Award and Robert Award for Best Danish Film; *A White, White Day* (2019), selected for Critics’ Week at Cannes; and *Godland* (2022), which he also wrote. The latter premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section and won awards including the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. He won the Edda Award for Best Director in 2023.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Godland* (2022), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/godland.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Joan of Arc* (2025), Director, Director of Photography, Writer
- *The Love That Remains* (2025), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- *One Winter Series* (2025), Director
- *Godland* (2022), Director, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/godland.md)
- *Nest* (2022), Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
- *A White, White Day* (2019), Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *Winter Brothers* (2017), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Seven Boats* (2014), Writer, Producer, Director
- *A Painter* (2013), Director, Writer
- *A Day or Two* (2012), Director
- *Joel* (2010), Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
- *Post-it* (2008), Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Sound Re-Recording Assistant, Sound Editor
- *On Land and Sea*, Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Robert Award for Best Director 2018: Robert Award for Best Director (won), for *Winter Brothers*
- The Carl Theodor Dreyer Prize 2018: The Carl Theodor Dreyer Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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