Country: Iceland

Direction Anna Hildur Hildibrandsdottir

Synopsis The Icelandic band Hatari is used to provoking everyone and everything, but at the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel they have the opportunity to call out the whole world - that is if they want to.

Direction Baltasar Kormákur · Börkur Sigþórsson · Óskar Thór Axelsson · Baldvin Zophoníasson

Cast Ólafur Darri Ólafsson · Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir · Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson · Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir

Synopsis TV Series (2015-Present Day). As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town’s small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can’t leave until the storm passes and the main road into town is impassable....

Direction Baldvin Zophoníasson

Cast Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir · Álfrún Laufeyjardóttir · Gary Anthony Stennette · Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir

Synopsis Drawing on true stories and interviews with the families of addicts, this harrowing portrait of addiction follows Stella and Magneav through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.

Direction Rúnar Rúnarsson

Cast Jón Sigurbjörnsson · Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir · Sigurður Skúlason

Synopsis An Icelandic short about an old man who might leave his farm keeps a secret.

Direction Ragnar Bragason

Cast Gísli Örn Garðarsson · Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir · Ólafur Darri Ólafsson · Andri Snær Magnasson

Synopsis Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she's oblivious to what's going on with her twelve year old son Gudmund,...

Direction Dagur Kári

Cast Gunnar Jónsson · Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir · Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir · Sigurjón Kjartansson

Synopsis Virgin Mountain (2015) follows Fúsi, a shy, overweight man in his forties who lives a quiet, routine life with his mother in Reykjavik. Working as a baggage handler, he escapes into his hobbies of war reenactments and model trains. His...

Direction August Jakobsson

Cast Ari Eldjárn

Synopsis In this English-language special, Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjárn pokes fun at Nordic rivalries, Hollywood's take on Thor, the whims of toddlers and more.

Direction Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Cast Birgir Dagur Bjarkason · Áskell Einar Pálmason · Viktor Benóný Benediktsson · Snorri Rafn Frímannsson

Synopsis A teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, who adopts a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits.

Direction Rúnar Rúnarsson

Cast Auður Drauma Bachmann · Þorsteinn Bachmann · Kristín Davíðsdóttir · Benedikt Erlingsson

Synopsis Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.

Direction Rúnar Rúnarsson

Cast Atli Oskar Fjalarsson · Hera Hilmar · Sigurdur Jakob Helgason · Thorunn Jakobsdóttir

Synopsis 2 Birds takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood. The main character is a timid boy who has a typical schoolboy crush on a girl his...

Direction Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon

Cast Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson · Barði Jóhannsson · Úlfur Eldjárn · Jóhann Jóhannsson

Synopsis A documentary about the bustling Icelandic musical scene. This documentary covers some of Iceland's most talented and well-known musicians.

Direction Benedikt Erlingsson

Cast Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir · Jóhann Sigurðarson · Juan Camilo Roman Estrada · Jörundur Ragnarsson

Synopsis Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.

Direction Isold Uggadóttir

Cast Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir · Babetida Sadjo · Gunnar Jónsson · Patrik Nökkvi Pétursson

Synopsis At the edge of Iceland‘s Reykjanes peninsula, two women‘s lives will intersect — for a brief moment — while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as...

Direction Dagur Kári

Cast Tómas Lemarquis · Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson · Elín Hansdóttir · Anna Friðriksdóttir

Synopsis Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous...

Direction Baldvin Zophoníasson

Cast Hera Hilmar · Thor Kristjansson · Ingvar Þórðarson · Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson

Direction Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Cast Baldur Einarsson · Blær Hinriksson · Gunnar Jónsson · Søren Malling

Synopsis 'Heartstone' is set in the beautiful but yet harsh nature of Iceland and portrays the journey of friendship and love between two young friends. As one tries to win the heart of a girl, the other discovers new feelings toward...

Direction Baltasar Kormákur

Cast Egill Ólafsson · Kôki · Palmi Kormákur · Masahiro Motoki

Synopsis Over several decades and on different continents, a man embarks on an emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.

Direction Rúnar Rúnarsson

Cast Baldur Einarsson · Mikael Kaaber · Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir · Katla Njálsdóttir

Synopsis Una grapples with grief while harboring a secret, unable to fully express her emotions, as she navigates challenging events swirling around her.

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Gísli Halldórsson · Sigríður Hagalín · Baldvin Halldórsson · Björn Karlsson

Synopsis Old Thorgeir must leave his home far off in the icelandic 'countryside' and move into a home for senior citizens in Reykjavik. There he meets an old friend from his childhood, Stella. Thorgeir soon becomes unhappy living there and together...

Direction Grímur Hákonarson

Cast Sigurður Sigurjónsson · Theódór Júlíusson · Charlotte Bøving · Jon Benonysson

Synopsis In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country's best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry...