Direction: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

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

Plot 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...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson · Baltasar Kormákur · Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson · Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Plot Páll is an artistic and sensitive young man. Getting dumped by his girlfriend, Dagny, triggers his descent into madness. We follow him on his way to inevitable doom; at home...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Lili Taylor · Fisher Stevens · Gísli Halldórsson

Plot All poor Atsushi Hirata really wants is to leave the cold Japanese winter and take a week's vacation in warm Hawaii. Unfortunately, he ends up forced to honor tradition and...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Kristbjörg Kjeld · Hilmir Snær Guðnason · Gunnar Eyjólfsson · Bjarni Ingvarsson

Plot A film director's personal journey experiencing his mother's disappearance into the Alzheimer disease, a film with essential Fridriksson's ingredients, humour, compassion and strong visual style.

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson · Kristbjörg Kjeld · Steindór Hjörleifsson · Rúrik Haraldsson

Plot Based on 17th century Icelandic folklore. A young man made himself wings and flew over the Hvítá river. This was supposed to be the work of the devil so the...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Gudmundur Thorvaldsson · Ísgerður Elfa Gunnarsdóttir · Gestur Einar Jónasson · Skúli Gautason

Plot When the editors at Reykjavik-based The Afternoon News decide to expand the newspaper into northern Iceland —with their crime writer Einar as its sole reporter on location— the journalist feels...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Baltasar Kormákur · Gísli Halldórsson · Sigurveig Jónsdóttir · Guðmundur Ólafsson

Plot Djoflaeyjan takes place in Reykjavik in the years following World War II. The British and American occupation army has left their bunkers behind. They became homes to hundreds of lower-class...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Plot Instructions on how a copy of this classical work of medieval Icelandic literature may be burnt on a fire.

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Plot Eldsmiðurinn (The Blacksmith) is a film about an eighty year old craftsman and inventor, who lives alone on the east coast of Iceland. He claims to have made the first...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Plot Experimental film showing students graduation from the High School of Reykjavík edited with shots of cola bottles being filled and taped.

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Thorarinn Oskar Thorarinsson · Eggert Gudmundsson · Harald G. Haraldsson · Karl Guðmundsson

Plot Two friends, who are experienced whale hunters, decide to settle down in Rekyavik at the end of the whaling season. During a night on the town, the duo lands in...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Martin Compston · Guðrún María Bjarnadóttir · Gary Lewis · Peter Capaldi

Plot Jed and Chloe are in their early twenties, in love - and mentally handicapped. When Jed accidentally causes the death of Chloe´s cat, which she loves almost as much as...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Direction Shinji Aoyama · Aki Kaurismäki · Michael Glawogger · Sogo Ishii

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Nina Gunnarsdottir · Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Hallbjörn Hjartarson

Plot In the summer of 1984, Iceland's king of country music, Hallbjörn Hjartarson, arranged the first and only Icelandic cowboy-festival. This celebration of western culture took place in Skagaströnd, a village...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Plot The mother of an autistic child is determined not to accept the pessimistic prognosis for her son.

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Viggo Mortensen

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Keith Carradine · Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir · Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson · Axel Prahl

Plot Simon (Keith Carradine), who has taken too many punches from this world, returns to his ancestral home, Iceland, resigned to do himself in. Before he can complete the task, he...

Direction Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Cast Örvar Jens Arnarson · Rúrik Haraldsson · Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir · Orri Helgason