From Hong Kong to Raufar­höfn: the Birt­hday Archives

When filmmaker Colleen travels to Raufarhöfn—a tiny, vibrant town on Iceland’s northern edge—she retraces the year her classmate Brian spent there 17 years earlier. Bound by a shared birthday and parallel journeys, their stories weave a meditation on diaspora, serendipity, and the quiet ways places shape us.

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