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Cinema Nomad
Iceland
Season 1
Episode 103
We travel towards the Arctic Circle during the Winter Solstice to experience the Northern Lights and quirky Christmas antics. Our entrepreneurial filmmaker, Eyþór, lives in Flateyri, a small town in the Westfjords, where he owns and operates the oldest bookstore in Iceland, passed down from his great-grandfather. In Iceland, democracy thrives and storytelling is cherished as an age-old tradition.
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