Rainbows End

Rainbows End 1983

1.00

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.

1983

Spies, Lies and Family Ties

Spies, Lies and Family Ties 2016

1

During World War II, a private war erupted within an Icelandic family, hidden behind the veil of rumors and time. The filmmaker delves deep into the secrets of this family – his family – and the silence kept for more than 80 years is broken on both sides of the trenches.

2016

Sigur Ros - Sæglópur

Sigur Ros - Sæglópur 2006

1

The music video for the song track depicts the drowning of a young child, who is, towards the end of the video, rescued by a diver and, as in the "Glósóli" video, whether the child survives is left for the viewer to decide.

2006

Ice Rushes: An Icelandic Odyssey

Ice Rushes: An Icelandic Odyssey 2001

1

An experimental-documentary of the spirituality in Iceland, and the ultimate freedom it entails, as seen through the eyes of a foreigner. The filmmaker narrates his in-camera edited film. The sound design was recorded live, all in one take.

2001

East

East 2015

3.00

A film inspired by real events in the Icelandic underworld. A young man has a one night stand with the former girlfriend of a violent criminal and is kidnapped by said criminal and his gang in an effort to blackmail him. When that doesn't work they decide to bring him to the countryside to the home of an old friend. There they proceed to torture the poor man...

2015

Krampuss

Krampuss 2023

1

On Christmas Eve, an Icelandic family comes face to face with the Yule Cat, a ravenous creature of folklore hungry for those who didn't get clothes for Christmas.

2023

Lobster Soup Included

Lobster Soup Included 2015

1

Comedian Þorsteinn Guðmundsson travels from Reykjavik to Hrísey, a small island in the North of Iceland to do stand-up in the middle of the winter. On the way he sings, eats fast food, and thinks out loud about sex and Christmas. When being on the road in Iceland you're forced to expect the unexpected and be ready to make serious compromise to lodging. The groupies are also mostly adolescent boys with bad skin.

2015

The Sacred Mound

The Sacred Mound 1993

5.20

A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.

1993

Dalía

Dalía 2022

1

A six year old boy of divorced parents spends a weekend at his dad's farm. Not knowing how to connect with his son, the father goes about his day working and treating the boy as any other farmhand. When they come across the mother's seriously wounded horse they finally find a way to connect as they carefully go through the process of putting the horse out of its misery.

2022

Clean

Clean 2010

4.00

Filmed on location in New York City during the summer of 2009, Clean tells the story of one young woman’s struggle to conceal a growing habit, whilst attempting to retain her composure as a charming dance instructor for the elderly.

2010

Foxtrot

Foxtrot 1988

4.00

Tommi and his half brother Kiddi travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker Lísa.

1988

Draumur um draum

Draumur um draum 1996

1

Vala, a young filmmaker, is working on a documentary about the writer Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir. Vala is editing the film, looking into Ragnheiður's books and examining footage related to her, including an old interview with Ragnheiður that she listens to on video. Ragnheiður's books about Þóra frá Havmmur are particularly dear to Vala's heart, and she imagines scenes and events from the books as if she were Þóra herself. Suddenly, Ragnheiður comes to life on the screen and starts talking to Vála, answering various nagging questions that are on her mind.

1996

The Grandad

The Grandad 2014

7.00

Gudjón has led a safe life. Suddenly faced with retirement and growing older, he is forced to take a good, hard look at his marriage. A dramatic but often lighthearted story about life at a crossroads and the meaning of it all.

2014

Against the Current

Against the Current 2020

1.00

The journey of Icelandic trans kayaker Veiga Grétarsdóttir. An expedition beyond transformation.

2020

Tilbury

Tilbury 1987

5.80

In 1940, when there are British forces in Iceland, a country boy goes to Reykjavik to work for the army and to find what became of his childhood sweetheart. He soon discovers that she's having an affair with a British soldier. Moreover, he starts to suspect that the soldier, instead of being an officer and a gentleman, is in fact a very peculiar kind of monster.

1987

Poor Iceland

Poor Iceland 2016

1

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 what was happening in this tiny but relatively stable and affluent society. He filmed the ever-larger protests that in the end led to the downfall of the government. He took interviews with people shocked and confused by what was going on around them. He went to conferences and seminars where scholars tired to work out what had happened and what should happen next. He followed the endless debates and negotiations around the Icesave-accounts set up by Icelandic banks abroad. Every day brought fresh news of the complicated and often illegal deals made by financiers and bankers in the years leading up to the collapse.

2016