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Moody seas, mountains and knitwear — introducing the ‘Faroe noir’ film

Several films and dramas have used the Faroe Islands as a striking backdrop
Several films and dramas have used the Faroe Islands as a striking backdrop
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When Torfinnur Jakupsson returned to a teenage daydream, after an interval of 16 years and having realised it was now or never, he set about shining the world’s spotlights on his native Faroe Islands.

Now, two decades after that coffee break from work at a fish factory, he finds himself leading a drive to put the Danish collection of 18 islands 200 miles north of Britain on the production map, helping to cement it as an emerging force in television and film.

“When I was 16 and working in the fish factory, I told my friend how cool it would be to do a Faroe noir, like those we knew from Sweden and Denmark, and questioned why nothing like that had ever been done,” Jakupsson