Iceland Movies

The film revolves around Hildur, a national celebrity and socialite who has to look for a job when her boyfriend Jolli is sent to prison. She finds a...

The film is about a little boy, living in the centre of Reykjavík during the first years of Second World War. While poverty is still a fact of...

Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal...

Thor and Denni's desperate search for tobacco along the south coast of Iceland during a shortage due to a prolonged strike in the country.

The Circus Director is a film about the director of a circus who faced her fears and threw herself into the unknown. She brought contemporary circus...

An experimental documentary about the artist BBPrince as he tries to make a film that captures the atmosphere of the situation years in Iceland

A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.

Horses on a farm in Iceland become gravely ill due to suspected fluoride pollution from a nearby factory. Authorities, unwilling or unable to...

The 1955 strike in Reykjavík was one of the hardest-hitting strikes in Iceland’s history. The Reykjavík of the time was a growing...

Shot on board a boat from the Westman Islands, this film covers a typical fishing trip. Follows the three-man crew of this small vessel at their...

The Adventure of Jón and Gvendur is a silent comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin. It is regarded as the first Icelandic feature film as it was...

A documentary about the enigmatic Icelandic filmdirector Róska

Sveinn Þórarinsson (1821-68), kept a diary from his youth until death. His diary entries that concern music are the leitmotif in the...

A film documenting the landscapes of northern Iceland.

Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub,...

A film about a typical winter season on board an Icelandic fishing boat. The boat, Gunnar Jónsson, starts off from the Westman Islands and is...

A young woman goes on holiday to Flatey in Breiðafirði.

A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and...

The scholar Sveinn Bergsveinsson, a Communist in the 1930s, was trapped in Berlin by the outbreak of World War II and forced to work for the Nazi...