Iceland Movies

The filmmakers interview members of different activist organizations and discuss basic questions regarding activism and its role in a democratic...

A close-up on their characters and their unique art.

Childhood ends at age 14 for Afghan children under Taliban rule. In a countdown from age 12 to 14, Zahra and Zalgai insist on playing as silence and...

The coastal "motorway" that links the Icelanders together is usually referred to less euphemistically by continental tourists who are used to asphalt...

Swedish-Icelandic documentary film commissioned by Iceland's tourist board, which in magnificent color photography links the heritage from the fairy...

After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what...

Nanna is a single mother in Reykjavík who lives with her twenty something son Gudni Geir. She is not in awe of any of his various girlfriends...

A film about Einar Guðmundsson, the poet (Einar Guðmundsson, litlaskáld)

This film is about one fo the eruptions of the well-known volcano, Hekla, in Southern Iceland. Usually the damage caused by Hekla is in the form of...

During the invasion of Gaza in 2008-2009 by the Israeli army, 1400 people were killed - there of 400 children. By the time the last cries of protest...

In 1967 Sigurður Skúlason acted in his first film - the short Paradox - but it was never finished due to the primitive state that...

In this documentary we get to know the Icelandic writer Einar Már Guðmundsson who won the Nordic price for literature in 1995. Einar...

The journey of Icelandic trans kayaker Veiga Grétarsdóttir. An expedition beyond transformation.

The Sea Baron is a cinema verité-styled documentary set in a restaurant by the old Reykjavík harbour, where the legendary sailor...

Interweaving family lore, mythology, science fiction, and digital abstraction, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s film follows the collaboration between the...

A film about the Westman Islands eruption in 1973, the destruction and the restoration work which began a year later.

A young man returns to his childhood home to improve his relationship with his father. However, when he arrives, everything seems different.