A FILM BY GAGGA JÓNSDÓTTIR
TIGHT LINES
A river. Four young women. A future they cannot take for granted.
Buen Kino · Mandal · 28 May 2027
You do not need to be a SALAR delegate to come.
Four young women have grown up beside Iceland's Laxá River, where their families have fished for generations.
Now they are stepping into a new role — as some of the youngest female salmon guides in the region.
Tight Lines follows Andrea, Alexandra, Áslaug and Arndís through one summer on the river: learning, guiding, making mistakes and finding their own place in a tradition shaped by those before them.
But the river around them is changing.
- Original title
- Strengur
- Director
- Gagga Jónsdóttir
- Country
- Iceland
- Runtime
- 65 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Year
- 2025
Gagga Jónsdóttir received Best New Director at Brooklyn Film Festival.
In Mandal on 28 May?
Come to the cinema.
No conference language. No PowerPoint. Just 65 minutes in Iceland, on one of the world's great salmon rivers, with four young women figuring out what the river means for their future.
Why Tight Lines at SALAR?
SALAR asks what happens when rivers, fjords, coasts and oceans are understood as one connected system.
Tight Lines begins somewhere more personal: with four young people, one river and the question of what we inherit — and what we leave behind.
That is why the film sits between SALAR Conversations and the evening Open Houses. It moves the story from systems and perspectives back to people.
Meet Andrea at SALAR
Andrea Ósk Hermóðsdóttir brings her own perspective from Laxá í Aðaldal to SALAR Conversations earlier in the day.
08:30–17:00
SALAR Conversations
Buen Kulturhus
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Late afternoon
Tight Lines
Buen Kino · 65 min
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19:00
SALAR Open Houses
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TIGHT LINES
Buen Kino · 28 May
65 min documentary from Iceland
Four young women. One river. Their future.
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One river can shape generations.
Tight Lines · Buen Kino · Mandal · 28 May 2027
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