Icelandic director Baldvin Zophoníasson’s intriguing drama follows three people — a struggling single mother, a former athlete trying to climb the corporate ladder, and a once-acclaimed author turned full-time drunk — whose lives intersect in surprising ways. First we meet Eik the very young mother of a diabetic 8-year-old. She can’t make ends meet as a nursery-school teacher, so she moonlights as a prostitute. Eik’s path will eventually cross with Mori, a poet and novelist who has been a raging alcoholic. And finally, Solvi a former soccer star recruited into the snake pit of international banking. One of the country’s most successful domestic hits in recent memory, Life in a Fishbowl is rightly assuming its status as one of the key Icelandic films of the decade.

Flagey, Brussels Film Festival