Against the Current (2020)

I had missed in the description for this film about Veiga Grétarsdóttir’s attempt to be the first person to kayak around Iceland in a counter-clockwise direction that is was also about her experience as a transgender woman. Not that it made for a bad movie, but it did require me to change my expectations on viewing. A lot of time is spent interviewing Veiga’s family and friends and her transitioning story is probably not terribly unique, but it is told in a forthright and honest manner. I was hoping for lots of beautiful Icelandic kayaking scenery and luckily there was still plenty of that.