A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.
Metalhead is a 2013 Icelandic drama film written and directed by Ragnar Bragason. Starring Thora Bjorg Helga, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, and Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, the film follows Hera Karlsdóttir (Helga), an aspiring black metal musician who returns to her family farm as she and her estranged parents struggle coming to terms with the death of her older brother Baldur in a tractor accident nine years prior.