Iceland Movies

A film about a revolutionary road-protection system from the Icelandic inventor Einar Einarsson. This film won the audience award at Techfilm-Czechosl...

The five thousand inhabitants of the Westman Islands were evacuated during the 1973 volcanic eruption and relocated in various towns on the mainland....

A film about the "Icelanders' Day" in Gimli in Manitoba in 1975, commemorating the 100 year settlement of Icelanders in Canada.

This film is about the traditional puffin catch in the Westman Islands and shows the fowlers in action, often performing breathtaking feats in the soa...

A documentary film about a garbage collector and his views on life.

Social critique, made on the occasion of the 1100 year birthday of the settlement of Iceland in 1974.

Seen through thee eyes of a visitor, Fiskur undir steini describes the limited cultural life of an Icelandic fishing village.

The story of salvage operations in the wake of the 1973 Westman Island eruption. The 5.000 inhabitants were evacuated in a matter of hours as lava and...

A film about the Icelandic sculptor Einar Jónsson.

About the underwater eruption which led to the formation of the island of Surtsey (1963 & 1966). The film is partly based on an older film about the f...

About a commune of hippies in the village of Hveragerði and their views on a different kind of lifestyle.

A guided tour to places to Hallgrímur Pétursson. (A famours Icelandic poet of psalms.) The film includes some staged sequences from his life.

Made during a period when Iceland was still extending its fisheries' zone, this film deals with the total dependence of Icelanders on the fishing indu...

An educational film about a new type of trawler which had considerable effects on the fishing industry in its time (around 1947)

The film discusses the gap between the public and "accepted" art.

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 as...

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

The film, which is based on earlier footage taken by Steindór Sigurðsson, Árni Stefánsson & Guðmundur Einarsson, describes the volcanic eruption in Mt...

For want of a satisfactory political party, a group of young people parodically form their own candidate party. This film follows their campaign until...

A film about the activities of the US military base in Keflavík, Iceland.