Amiens International Film Festival 2013 Won Best Actress Charlotte Bøving  Won Prize of the City of Amiens Benedikt Erlingsson    Camerimage 2014 Nominated Best Directorial Debut Benedikt Erlingsson    Chicago International Film Festival 2014 Nominated Audience Choice Award Audience Choice Award Benedikt Erlingsson    CPH PIX 2014 Won Politiken''s Audience Award Benedikt Erlingsson    Edda Awards, Iceland 2014 Won Edda Award Director of the Year (Leikstjóri ársins) Benedikt Erlingsson  Screenplay of the Year (Handrit ársins) Benedikt Erlingsson  Best Film (Bíómynd ársins) Actor of the Year (Leikari ársins í aðalhlutverki) Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson  Best Cinematography (Kvikmyndatökumaður ársins) Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson  Best Visual Effects (Brellur ársins) Jörundur Rafn Arnarson  Nominated Edda Award Supporting Actor of the Year (Leikari ársins í aukahlutverki) Steinn Ármann Magnússon  Actress of the Year (Leikkona ársins í aðalhlutverki) Charlotte Bøving  Supporting Actress of the Year (Leikkona ársins í aukahlutverki) Sigríður María Egilsdóttir  Best Editing (Klipping ársins) David Alexander Corno  Best Music (Tónlist í kvikmynd/sjónvarpi) Davíð Þór Jónsson  Best Make Up (Gerfi ársins) Sigríður Rósa Bjarnardóttir  Gunnhildur Erlingsdóttir  Best Sound (Hljóðhönnun ársins) Sveinn Páll Guðmundsson  Nomination shared with Sýrland Best Set Design (Leikmynd ársins) Sigurður Óli Pálmarsson    Göteborg Film Festival 2014 Won Audience Award Best Nordic Film Benedikt Erlingsson  Won FIPRESCI Prize Benedikt Erlingsson  Nominated Dragon Award Best Nordic Film Benedikt Erlingsson    Les Arcs European Film Festival 2013 Won Grand Prize of the Jury Benedikt Erlingsson  Won Prize for the Best Music Davíð Þór Jónsson  Nominated Crystal Arrow Benedikt Erlingsson    Milwaukee Film Festival 2014 Nominated Festival Prize Best Film Benedikt Erlingsson    Nordic Council 2014 Won Nordic Council''s Film Prize Benedikt Erlingsson (director/writer)  Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (producer)    San Francisco International Film Festival 2014 Nominated New Directors Prize Benedikt Erlingsson    San Sebastián International Film Festival 2013 Won Kutxa Award Best New Director Benedikt Erlingsson    Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2013 Won FIPRESCI Prize Benedikt Erlingsson  Won Tridens Award Best Film Benedikt Erlingsson  For depicting simplicity of life using attractive cinematic tools. Best Cinematographer Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson    Tokyo International Film Festival 2013 Won Best Director Award Benedikt Erlingsson  Nominated Tokyo Grand Prix Benedikt Erlingsson    Tromsø International Film Festival 2014 Won Audience Award Best Film Benedikt Erlingsson

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A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses'' perception.

Of Horses and Men (Icelandic: Hross í oss) is a 2013 Icelandic drama film written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson and produced by fellow director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film won the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize.

Kolbeinn loves Solveig and Solveig loves Kolbeinn but Kolbeinn is in love with his prized possession and darling, the mare Grána and Grána is obsessed with the stallion Brúnn. Spring is coming and the whole community is following the story. This cannot end well. Vernhardur is in love with vodka and the horse Jarpur loves Vernhardur, his master. Aboard a Russian trawler is a mate by the name of Gengis who doesn''t have vodka but loves horses like Jarpur. This not going to end well. Grimur has a passion for ancient horse roads but Egill admires barbed wire fences. Grimur owns a horse and a pair of pincers and Egill owns a tractor. This cannot end well. Johanna loves Raudka, her mare, but Raudka is in love with freedom. On the heath by an old summer cottage lies an injured old man. This could have a happy ending. Juan Camillo loves life and nature and is seeking God in the Icelandic highlands but the horse Old Piebald is tired and longs for rest. How will this end? Well, it all ends in the autumn when the horses are herded and men and horses become one great strand of excitement. The autumn round-up of the horses unifies theme, place, objects, time and characters into an ensemble film.