For any filmmaker, making your first feature is always the top where you want to go,” says writer and director Ugla Hauksdóttir. Jumping into the deep endAs we meet, Ugla has only one day in the city before travelling to shoot in Spain. Even though her feature premiered on her original home turf, Ugla has been exposed to other cultures from an early age. Eventually, that’s what I did.”“I had no idea what filmmaking was, or what directing really was, or what writing a script really meant, or how complex making a movie could be. And, of course, we had these moments of thinking, should we try to write what’s happening in reality into the script?” says Ugla.