Gérard Lemarquis, who plays the French schoolteacher, is the father of 'Tomas Lemarquis', who plays Noi. Gérard Lemarquis is a French schoolteacher in real life, and the director 'Dagur Kari' was one of his students.
Palm trees are repeatedly present in the movie as a symbol: on the Viewmaster slide, on Noi's father's shirt, on the cake her grandmother bakes and on the green wallpaper at his house.
Tomas Lamarquis, Nói, not actually suffers from albinism. Even that he played 3 times albinos characters, he actually suffers from alopecia.
The film was Iceland's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards.
The soundtrak is written and performed by the duo Slowblow, which includes director Dagur Kári Pétursson.