Welcome to the Opening Film of Stockfish Film & Industry festival 2025. Storm Alerts, directed by Bergur Bernburg. Written by Bergur Bernburg and Jón Atli Jónason.

Dr. Marteinn Helgi Sigurðsson, a gifted Icelandic academic living in Copenhagen, finds himself at a crossroads when he is diagnosed with mental illness. Declining conventional methods, to deal with his mental state, he decides instead to embrace his episodical madness. Storm Alerts is an investigation and a reconstruction of Dr. Sigurðsson's experiences. He proposes that the manic side of him has a right to exist and be manifested. Arguing that the creative process is a journey into unknown territory in search of truths; a man’s journey into the unknown mysteries of the human spirit.