Don’t feel sorry for me!
After ten years of marriage, Birgit is confronted with the ultimate betrayal. Her younger husband, Hanus, has left her and moved in with a new and younger woman, Maria. Hanus is the kind of man everyone falls for – charming, magnetic, and with a particular power over women. Even those he has left behind remain emotionally entangled in his invisible web. Despite having emotionally and financially betrayed them, Hanus manages to maintain control. He returns whenever it suits him – including sexually – and the women let him. In a car parked in a lot in Tórshavn, everything comes to a head. In a claustrophobic space between car seats, love, power and humiliation collide in a moment of raw emotional reckoning. "It’s Not Me You Should Pity" is a powerful psychological drama about losing one’s footing and dignity when love dies. The ending is open: Is Birgit’s breakdown a total collapse – or the first, fragile step toward freedom and human dignity?
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Directed by Eir í Ólavsstovu. 9min 9sec
Director · Screenwriter · Actor · Cinematographer
Eir í Ólavsstovu has worked in film and television for more than 35 years, working across fiction and documentary for both children and adults.
She has collaborated with some of the Faroe Islands’ most renowned artists, creating Christmas calendars, documentaries, fiction films, portraits, TV programs, and music videos – always marked by depth, presence, and strong storytelling.
Fiction & Christmas Calendars
Tvær gentur á einum hornið (Two Girls on the street corner) – Screenwriter (with Katrin Ottarsdóttir), 1985
Dólgarnir – umborð á sluppini (The Rascals – On Board the Sloop) – Screenwriter, Assistant Director, Actor, 1987
Alfred – Director (children’s fiction), 1988
Jólagidd (The Christmas Witch) – Director & Screenwriter, 2004
Jólagøtan (The Christmas Street) – Director & Screenwriter, 2005
Vitin (The Lighthouse) – Director & Screenwriter, 2006
Tú og eg (You and Me) – Director & Screenwriter, 2020
Sóttarhald í dupultsongini (Quarantine in the Double Bed) – Director & Screenwriter 2020
Tað er ikki synd í mær (Don’t Pity Me) – Director & Screenwriter 2026
Documentaries & TV Productions
Man má tola eitt nei (You Must Accept a No) – Director (with Elisa Heinesen), 2006
Eg var við í mínum egna lívi (I Was Present in My Own Life) – Director, Portrait of Annika Hoydal, 2008
Maria – ein nunna í Føroyum (Maria – A Nun in the Faroes) – Director, 2008
Her er gott at verða (It Feels Good to Be Here) – Director, 2009
Lítla oyggin í havinum (The Little Island in the Ocean) – Director, 2009
Í morgin skal tað verða (Tomorrow It Will Be) – Director, 2009
Sterkur veikleiki (Strong Weakness) – Director, 2009
Tey sita og bíða (They Sit and Wait) – Director, 2009
Tann einasti eini (The One and Only) – Director, 2010
Brúksmentan (Consumer Culture) – Director, 2010
Aftaná Undrið (After the Miracle) – Director, 2010
Demokratia (Democracy) – Director, 2010
Fólksins rødd (The People’s Voice) – Director (documentary series), 2010
Gjørdi eg mær fyri skommum (Did I Shame Myself?) – Director, 2011
Mítt yndisstað á Sandoynni (My Favorite Place on Sandoy) – Director, 2016
Eplafestivalurin (The Potato Festival) – Director, 2016
Ílegusavnið (The Gene Bank) – Director, 2016
KVF 60 ár – við Tóra á túri í KVF (KVF 60 Years – On Tour with Tóra) – Director, 2016
Stakkurin (The Sea Stack) – Director, 2017
Millum himmal og helviti (Between Heaven and Hell) – Photojournalist & Interviewer (G! Festival film), 2017
The Ocean – Fishing with Love – Director, 2018
Vangamynd av Adelborg Linklett (Portrait of Adelborg Linklett) – Director, 2018
Vangamynd av Torgerð Suðuroy (Portrait of Torgerð Suðuroy) – Director, 2019
Lisbeth – Don’t Worry Be Happy – Director, 2020
Sálarkvøl (Agony of the Soul) – Director, 2021
Havið – Taradrotningin (The Ocean – The Seaweed Queen) – Director, 2025 (local premiere)
Karyatida – ein standmynd verður til (Caryatid – The Making of a Statue) – Director, 2025
Er nakar har úti (Is Anyone Out There?) – Director, in progress
Director Statement
“The purpose of this project is to create a short film about divorce, a very common phenomenon in the Faroe Islands today, but one that is rarely depicted in this way on film. In this case, the woman is at least 20 years older than the man, which is a taboo in the Faroe Islands and carries a significant social stigma” and is not common within the film industry at all
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