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There is no one to say that a senior citizen can’t come up with great entrepreneurial ideas. In Senior Citizen Expand we meet two older gentlemen who take on a trip to China to put their idea into motion.

How do the houses we live in and their architecture affect our lives and lifestyles? The film explores the relationship between apartments and their inhabitants through the everyday life of people in four different flats in a housing project in Reykjavík.

The face of Cambodia is a documentary about the city Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat was lost for 700 years and is one of the Seven wonders of the World. The population of Angkor was around a million and the city covers more than a 400 square kilometer area.

This documentary is an invitation to an adventurous travel about the central highlands of Iceland within and surrounding the Vatnajökull Galcier - Europes larget icecap. A travel begins at the surface of the hot spot under Vatnajökull, where fire and ice go hand in hand.

Close to the Artic Circle, Iceland offers exotic landscape and eccentric people. We offer a highly entertaining sports-program focusing on fun, human interest and extreme situation. The programs are youth oriented with fast edits and loads of music. We will fallow athletes from different types of actionsports as the perform exciting acts with amazing landscapes from Iceland as backdrops. It looks scary to us but for them it's just fun! Why do they do it and what kind of a kick do the get out of it? We cover snowboarding on several locations in Iceland, mostly on glaciers which are very extreme locations. River rafting or kayaking down powerful rivers originating from melting glaciers is another adventure. Among other adventures will be downhill mountain biking, ice climbing, cave-diving, surfing and similar extreme sports. We find those people fascinating and the camera loves them for what they do!

Árni Egilsson is considered to be among the finest double bass players in the world. Jón Páll a guitarist and a natural born talent. Skúli Sverrisson, an electric bass player, who at the age of 30 has gained recognition as one of New York's finerst young talents. This creative documentary in three parts is shot on location in California and New York. Fine cinematography an those three strong individuals result in a unique and entertaining television program.

In July we fallow puffin catchers going on small boats to uninhabited rocky islands where they catch the flying birds into nets. This hunt is very dangerous as the men have to operate from narrow ledges in cliffs high above the surfing ocean. In August we see another side of the puffin/man relationship, as the children lovingly collect helpless puffin chicks from streets and alleys and keep them in cardboard boxes at their homes for the night until the can help them to the sea in the morning.

In August 1997, British rock band Blur launched what is probably the most astonishing and exotic rock'n'roll tour of all times, called Next Stop North Pole. They where to play for Nordic nations not at all used to concerts by the most popular band of that time. See Iceland, The Faroe Islands and Greenland through the eyes of Blur.

When the first Icelandic engineer returned to Iceland from his studies in Denmark a hundred years ago most Icelanders lived in great poverty in dark turf houses as thet had done for centuries. One could hardly speak of any roads, only some trails formed through the centuries by man and animals. There where no bridges over the rivers, only one lighthouse and no man-made harbour to speak of. This documentary shows the evoliution of technology in Iceland and the great changes that the society has undergone since the first engineer arrived with new ideas and knowledge that has turned Iceland into a highly modern society in a very short span of time.

In this documentary we get to know the Icelandic writer Einar Már Guðmundsson who won the Nordic price for literature in 1995. Einar Már Guðmundsson is one of the best known writers in Iceland and his works have been translated into english and the other Nordic languages. Besides his books of prose and poetry he has also written film manuscripts and in the documentary we see, among interviews with the writer himself and commentators on him and his work, clips from the films.

Dimmuborgir are situated in one of Iceland’s most active volcanic zones. The film gives a clear account of the formation of this magnificant citadel of lava. The geology of the area is described and the viewer is brought into contact with its incomparable scenic beauty and birdlife as well as with the great danger facing this jewel in Icelandic landscape.

A documentary about the Icelandic artist Sverrir Haraldsson

Though small, the Icelandic pony is widely renowned for its strength and endurance. However, the vast mountainous coastal region of northwest Iceland was still considered too rugged for even the sturdiest of those horses until a dozen riders and forty horses sailed north to face this deserted challenge. if successful they would be the first to travel through this gigantic landscape of cliffs and glaciers.