Beer + Film: Band

Iceland, 2022
Regi: Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir

Three bandmates, Álfrún, Saga, and Hrefna, of The Post Performance Blues Band, are tired of playing to audiences of five and getting paid in beer. Each of them is staring down 40 and exhausting themselves juggling motherhood and artistic pursuits. They decide to give themselves one year to either become pop stars or quit the band for good. Band member and filmmaker Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir puts herself, along with age and gender bias, on stage in this docu-parable about talented but not teenaged women trying to be successful in a youth-obsessed, overnight-success industry. Funny and quirky as it is, this film toys with the boundaries between fiction and reality. But most of all, Band allows gifted artists to perform the resilience and sisterhood that truly exists between life's messes, rejections, and triumphs.