Iceland Movies

In September 2009 the Icelandic Search and Rescue team receive an emergency call from the Republic of Thule. An earthquake has destroyed the capital...

Svava Jakobsdóttir is one of Iceland's greatest author. She fought long and hard for equality for women in Iceland and her work became an...

A documentary about the Icelandic artist Sverrir Haraldsson

Among the species illustrated are Fulmar, Gannet, Cormorant, Shag, Kittiwake, Common Guillemot (or Murre), Brunnich's Guillemot, Razorbill and...

A documentary film about the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, who received the Nobel Prize in 1955 for "... renewing the Icelandic tradition...

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...

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

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

A film about teenage drug use and its consequences.

The three-woman strong artists' collaboration The Icelandic Love Corporation's animation guides the viewer to friendship through the world's perils...

Travellers cycle across Iceland.

A documentary on the avalanche that took place four days before Christmas 1974 in Neskaupstaður, Iceland.

Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.

Once a year the small and remote town of Neskaupstaður (Iceland) is invaded by hoards of metal fans who are attending Eistnaflug, Iceland’s...

Inspired by a poem by Lars Norén, By Herself is an oneiric film about a woman who lives alone and who comes home late one evening. Beautifully...

Sváfnir roams the hallways of a large shopping mall, normally occupied by thousands, sweeping and mopping up the mess of others. But at night...

A transgender Asian Icelandic teenager is stuck on an island where nothing ever happens and nobody seems to care. We catch a glimpse of their life as...

Tímamót, or Changes in English. An upbeat, heartwarming story about Gudjon, Sigurbjorn and Steinthor who lived together for decades...

The documentary illustrates the northward drift of contaminated sea water through streams and currents, and the unforeseen consequences of such...