Iceland Movies

A group of icelandic actors and comedians satirize the events of 2001.

Áramótaskaup: 2013 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

A short film about how everything that can go wrong goes so bad that going wrong takes on a new meaning.

An avant-garde absurd short film saturated with horror. A child witnesses her home being invaded by bimbo-looking witches through the lenses of a DV...

Some Icelanders maintain a strong and mysterious relationship with Snæfellsjökull, a volcano-glacier located in the West of the island....

Vera is a young woman who has no memories of her mother. Her desperate search for a mother image merges with her own search of self as she inevitably...

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...

A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.

A couple are going through a divorce, but once one of their children gets injured they start taking care of it, and maybe each other also.

An Icelandic documentary chronicling the life and career of the musician GDRN (Guðrún Ýr Eyfjörð). The film utilizes an...

In September 2015 there were 400 years since the slaying of 32 Basque whalers in Iceland.

Hrafn Gunnlaugsson who put the Icelandic film industry on the world map in the seventies with films set in modern Iceland and the Viking age - here...

16-year old Júlía has just moved from Norway to Iceland and struggles to balance caring for her younger sister with fitting in at a new...

A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird features Kjartansson and his longtime collaborator, Davíð Þór Jónsson, playing...

This film shows three different methods for catching herrings which Icelanders have used in the past century. The use of the nets is illustrated with...

The barren, concrete landscape of contemporary Reykjavik contributes the setting for the thriller, which tells the story of Stefan, whose life is...

Thorbjörn Steingrimsson is an unusual shepherd. He does not have sheep or goats but ramshackle cars from which he extracts working components...

A mockumentary follows the life of Friðrik as he tries to make women fall in love with them, but when as soon as they confess their love to him...

WHEN WE ARE BORN is a unique live performance film that tells a touching and thoroughly human story based in part on Ólafur’s life....