Iceland Movies

This is a tale of forged paintings. Nothing could be more ordinary. Only the action takes place in Iceland, a country with a population of 300.000,...

A man walks into a shop and meets a girl.

The film gives a strong view of the everyday life of Icelanders when the film is shot, but that year was a record year for the export of herring...

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...

A film by Baldvin Z & Ólafur Arnalds Island Songs is a unique audio-visual portrait of my home country, Iceland. In 2016 I travelled to 7...

A documentary about Icelandic playwright, novelist and filmmaker Guðmundur Kamban.

Young couple Anna and Gunnar live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse in a lottery every seven years. Full of heartache, the couple...

Sveppi and Villi go on summer holiday to an old country hotel. Soon they realize a dark and beautiful secret concerning a ghost, a secret spell and a...

Dora has been unemployed for some period of time and she and her family are therefore facing financial difficulties. One day she receives an...

The film tells the story of Maja and Nikulás meeting and how they develop a friendship when she starts to visit him regularly. This worries...

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...

The lives of two sisters change forever one winter morning.

A guy called Árni got the idea of gathering a few bands together in his backyard to do some live recording. He filled his little shack with...

Maria is somewhat of a rebel and problem child. Her mother died and her father remarried some awful lady, and Maria isn't happy at all. She takes a...

Convinced that great art requires suffering, a young filmmaker sets out to manufacture her own heartbreak, adventure, and chaos in search of...

Loftur Guðmundsson films the Icelandic industry. Although only a few industrial companies are shown. They are, Ölgerðin Egil...

Erik Leiser takes us on an unforgettable journey across the Icelandic landscape as he mixes live action and pixilation to produce an enchanting,...

The story about Frieda Darvel, a young South-African girl, that lives on the street like many other children in Cape Town. One day she becomes nation...