Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen (NO)
Genre: Documentary
Norway, 2001 / 5:16 min (35 mm), colour & sound

The Film
Once there was a large country and a small island that didn’t get on very well. Many years ago a lot of people escaped from the large country to the small island. After staying a while on the small island, they were allowed to write letters to relatives and friends in the large country. The letters never arrived, because the large country didn’t like the stamp. The film is a visual fable about what happened when the postal service between China and Taiwan was re-opened after nearly forty years.

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Jannicke Systad Jacobsen (b. 1975) has studied film directing with focus on documentaries at FAMU – The National Filmschool of the Czech Republic and London International Film School. She has also studied Dramaturgy/Drama and Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
Films directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen: Nothing to Hide (1998), her graduation film at LIFS, A Little Red Dot (2001), The Stamp and the Lighthouse (2002), War on Paranoia (2003), Klovnebarna, a short film that is still in production (2004) and the TV documentary Sandman - The Story of a Socialist Superman (2004) which is also still in production.
(From: www.nfi.org)