Iceland Movies

When Ukrainian filmmaker Anastasiia Bortuali is displaced to Iceland, she documents her fellow refugees, capturing their fragility and strength...

When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for...

‘On The Surface’ is a 4mn animation about a young Black woman who goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on her experience of...

A priests work is never done. In Clean Heart we get to know Kristinn Ágúst Friðfinnsson a priest in the town of Selfoss. While...

Nombeko Mayeki is a young woman from Soweto who finds herself caught in an international whirlwind from South Africa to Sweden. A heroine born in the...

Follows the infamous Sólborgarcase where a mother and her brother were accused of killing their newborn.

This film is about a ten year old girl, Edda, who is taking part, for the first time, in the famous Icelandic horse tournament at Hella. Together...

“Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson” is a documentary on the painter Eggert Pétursson. In moraines near Skaftafell...

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...

Various events of importance to the nation and to individual persons during the cold war and from about 1960 emerge as fragments of the memory of a...

Jan Mayen is a narrow island, 50 km long, northeast of Iceland. It belongs to Norway which has a weather- and military station situated there. The...

Scenes and interviews from Leonard Cohen's visit to Iceland in 1988.

The film tells the story of Maja and Nikulás meeting and how they develop a friendship when she starts to visit him regularly. This worries...

Tommi and his half brother Kiddi travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker...

A young single mother explores the issues of waste in food consumption and the fashion industry. Via interviews with various experts, designers and...

A lone space traveller bides his time while waiting for someone to pick him up.

After a great storm, is there silence?

A corporate documentary about the construction of the hydro-electric power plant at Búrfell, from the beginning in 1966 until the inauguration...

The film deals with unexpected and unexplainable loss. Due to an accident, the life of a happy family turns into a larger-than-life tragedy.