An old woman, Frída, awaits her death in a country hospital. Every morning, a nurse moves her to a window at the end of a long corridor. One day, her mind drifts back to a day from her youth when she had to cross a large river on horseback.
Film poem. Based on construction activities in Iceland, shot in the town of Kópavogur.
This documentary tells the story of the aviation entrepreneur Alfred Eliasson, founder and manager of Loftleidir Icelandic, who is recognized as one of the pioneers in Trans-Atlantic passenger aviation.
Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
Rainbow’s End tells the story of inter-generational family conflict. Is a haunting work that remains as affecting and original today as when it was first released.
Based on the saga of Gísli Súrsson, one of the Icelandic Sagas. The attempt of a family head in 10th century Iceland to strengthen the fragile bonds within the clan through blood brotherhood turns into the opposite through suspicion and resentment. When the law of blood revenge has to be fulfilled after a murder, a fateful chain reaction is set in motion.
Centers on Georg Bjarnfreðarson, an over-educated know-it-all who has just been released from jail after a ten year sentence for manslaughter, but is still a prisoner of his own past.
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on Earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.
Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.
The film is about a girl who is having a hard time at home and dreams of going to her grandfather's house in the countryside. When she gets there, however, a strange woman is pestering her, and she takes matters into her own hands.
An action driven love story about a young couple who become drug dealers in Reykjavik, but want nothing more than to get away and start a new life. When they decide to make a go for it with stolen narcotics from an infamous drug lord, their hopes and dreams begin to crumble.
A political comedy about the effects of the apparent discovery of gold in the sands near a small community on Iceland's south coast. Troops from the American NATO base "invade" the territory, journalists from Reykjavik arrive and the morals of the local inhabitants quickly turn topsy-turvy.
Luna is on the autism spectrum and doesn't like talking to other people. But when her dead spider friend Gullas mysteriously disappears, she has to embark on a dubious mission.
Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance by William Heinesen, and set on an island in 1913. Pétur (Gunnar Helgason) narrates, recalling the days when mainlanders arrived for a wedding. Flirtatious Sirsa (Pálína Jónsdottir) marries Harald (Dofri Hermannsson), son of a wealthy landowner on the island. Offshore, a ship is sinking, so the men form a rescue party, returning with the captain, the engineer, and several sailors. With a storm gathering, the engineer dies. The clergyman requests an end to the festivities as a mark of respect. Sirsa protests, but her new husband brings the celebration to a halt. The group then fragments into different activities, drunken or otherwise, and the sensual Sirsa directs her attention toward the handsome Ívar (Baldur Trausti Hreinsson). The film's score features traditional folk music.
Two small-town singers chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.
Ingólfur tries to make the perfect kitchen for his wife.
Follows the infamous Sólborgarcase where a mother and her brother were accused of killing their newborn.
Three tales of children each in a different nothern country, Greenland, the Pharoe Islands and Iceland.
The film tells the story of a young farmgirl moving to Reykjavík after the second world war, and her attempts to adapt to the city life.
A women tries to get the soul of her dead husband through heaven's gate to save him.
A story based on the folk tale of the ghost Djákninn from Myrká set in modern day Iceland.
Albert works in the meat section of a convenience store who falls in love with a woman who frequents the store.
Two sailors are under pressure from the fishing company to fish a lot of fish, but other problems arise.
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The television adaptation of the 1954 play Silfurtúnglið by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson updates the interwar story of Lóa, a housewife with a beautiful singing voice who delights in serenading her newborn son. Discovered by the dubious Feilan, manager of the nightclub “Silver Moon,” she’s cast as his emblem of purity for the club’s jaded clientele, only to find her talent erased and her performances reduced to humiliation. In the same production, Gunnlaugsson also modernizes Lilja’s 1933 short story “Fótatak manna,” relocating its 1920s setting to the present: medical students exhume the body of a poor, friendless man in the name of science, callously stuffing his coffin with rocks.
María has fled her home of Germany in the wake of the aftermath of the second world war and comes to Iceland to work on a farm.
The story of Sigga, a 17 year-old girl trying to leave home in Iceland, and make her way to California.