Von Fleischer, a composer referred to by characters in the film, is actually a fictitious person. The classical music arrangements were instead apart of the original score by Hjörtur Ingvi Jóhannsson and Hugi Gudmundsson.
According to IndieWire, Autumn Lights (2016) was the first American-Icelandic co-production in history to have been both shot and completed in Iceland.
Autumn Lights (2016) was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Italy's Riviera International Film Festival with Xavier Dolan's Juste la fin du monde (2016), Ciro Guerra's L'étreinte du serpent (2015), and others.