Iceland Movies

A whale-boat is making its final whaling tour of the season. It pursues and catches a whale, and then proceeds home. The men working on the boat have...

A young boy is spending the summer on his uncle's horse farm. He takes care of the sheep and plays cowboy but is suddenly drawn into the world of...

A breathtakingly beautiful valley between three glaciers, one of them Eyjafjallajökull. It may well have been the inspiration to Tolkien as he...

The logbook of a few Icelandic trawler-men in 1947-1970. It was dangerous to go on a drinking spree in those days — the Icelandic trawlers were...

Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson is remembered as one of the pioneers of modern Icelandic music. The conversation between Hans Ulrich...

A young woman goes on holiday to Flatey in Breiðafirði.

Rokk í Reykjavík (Rock in Reykjavik) gives a thorough overview of the powerful and expanding rock scene in Iceland. Most of the film...

Halla Ólafsdóttir & Amanda Apetrea are an award winning choreographer duo often known as Beauty and Beast. Their work challenges...

More than twenty years after the premiere of one of the most beloved Icelandic films (On Top/Med allt a hreinu 1982) a sequel appears. A band which...

Some people have to live their lives on a constant look out for snakes. Some even have to wear boots all the time. But people in Iceland have the...

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...

Alexander, a twenty-year-old student, his girlfriend and a schoolmate discover the ins and outs of film-making while shooting a documentary about his...

Lighthouse keepers are a dying breed all over the world, as automated equipment has been making their job obsolete. The story of Óskar-...

In this film, Ósvaldur Knudsen explains the life and work of Halldór Kiljan Laxness.

Tells of the years during the allied occupation of Iceland from 1940-1945. While a number of scenes depict daily life in Iceland (a combination of...

After a heartbreaking split with his girlfriend, acting student Angantýr goes through various stages of grief while preparing for his final...

About the evacuation of 3700 residents of the sea town Grindavík Iceland due to volcanic eruptions

When the heroine of the film gets what she always hoped for, she becomes miserable and unhappy and really misses what she had.