Iceland Movies

The scholar Sveinn Bergsveinsson, a Communist in the 1930s, was trapped in Berlin by the outbreak of World War II and forced to work for the Nazi...

When the Icelandic banks collapsed in the autum of 2008, taking most of the economy down with them, Ari Alexander took his camera and started to film...

The television adaptation of the 1954 play Silfurtúnglið by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson updates the interwar story of Lóa, a housewife with...

Stand up girls follows an eclectic group of icelandic women, ranging from bellydancers and anarchists to lesbian academics and suburban housewives,...

Running with the Herd is a unique and beautiful film. Director Thorfinnur Gudnason and his team bring to life a dramatic tale with sharply defined...

At the beginning of the film, three medical students are hunting for a body to use for research purposes. They hear of a tramp that has been found...

The documentary is a portrait of concept artist Kitty Von Sometime and her journey as she creates the Weird Girls Project. The Weird Girls -...

An Icelandic farmer's son decides to leave his farm, fiance, friends, dog and horse, during the depression before World War II, to start a new life...

A crazy guy dressed in blue breaks into a school and terrorises the students and staff.

Stefán lives with his demanding mother Hlmfríður. He has a big secret that he does not want to share with her. The secret is his...

A 1 min short film about a depressed angel asking for a transfer to St. Peter.

Núa burns through her last drops of gasoline to get to a sanctuary at the end of the road where powerhouses, musicians and mystics have...

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....

When we are going through a difficult process, we can find some comfort with each passing day on our journey. ‘Rétt að byrja’,...

2002's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.

Raquela is a transsexual, or lady boy, from the Philippines, who dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris. In order...