Populær Fra Iceland

In Ófeigsfjord in North-West Iceland the old whetstone has been used to sharpen the knives for five generations. There are still some eccentrics like Pétur Guðmundsson who live on and use the resources as his forefathers have done over the centuries. Here people have lived from the earth’s resources for generations: farming, fishing, collecting birds’ eggs and gathering driftwood.

This documentary is about Sigrún Þuríður Geirsdóttir, the first Icelandic woman to swim across the English Channel. She is also the first woman to swim the famous Eyjasund (from the Westmann Islands to the south coast of Iceland). In addition Sigrún has also swam the English Channel in a relay team three times. The film tells Sigrún's story and her incredible endurance. It took her 22 hours. and 34 min to complete the swim but she became sea sick for 7 hours. Sigrún had no background in sports and learned how to swim only three years earlier. The documentary is 70 minutes long and contains a lot of footage from Sigrún's swim. In 2020 the president of Iceland honored Sigrún Þuríður Geirsdóttir the Order of the Falcon, the highest honour that the Icelandic state can bestow on individuals.

The stories of three different characters: a teacher, a foreign school worker and a six year old student become intertwined over the course of one day in an antiquated elementary school.

This documentary focuses on the archaeological excavations at Skálholt in 1954 when the sarcophagus of bishop Páll Jónsson (bishop 1195-1211) was unearthed.

A portrait of Reykjavík in color.

Tómas, a miserable loner, nurtures a strange man after crashing into him in an auto accident.

Gleb is a Russian man who writes colourful letters to Icelandic news media in hopes of getting a job and a wife there. Ten years later, artist Kristján Guðmundsson comes across the letters and finds in them a correspondence with his outlook on life, and that of his comrades in the society of Hreiðar Heimski, and decides to invite Gleb to Iceland.

About the public interest in the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption started on March 19, 2021, and continued for several months.

A heartless man on the run with a mysterious box in search of a new beat.

Documentary about the Icelandic fisherman who lives on a boat in Ålesund, Norway. Ásgeir visits him and inquires about his life. He is the one who has sold his cod for the highest price and other fishermen envy him for it. Beautiful film about a hard life.

Fantasy on Sarabanda is a visual fantasy in claymation on the movement Sarabanda from J.S. Bach's D-minor partita for solo violin. The piece is a video of an animated sculpture which interprets the expressions in the music like in a ballet, pantomime or a silent film.

Inspired by the city symphonies of the 1920’s and 1930’s, this short film documents Reykjavik city during the summer. Free from the constraints of narrative filmmaking conventions, the film carefully observes the beauty of fleeting moments in our everyday lives.

A Kurdish mother and daughter who fled as refugees to Iceland get the news that their Immigration visas will expire in the next 48 hours.

A piano player is trying to find the one and only true note. He finds it.

An angel is on his way home from work and finds himself in trouble.

A TV movie based on the book by Birgir Sigurðsson

Feó learns that his deceased father was a creator of a martial art based on ballet, before being killed by his arch-enemy Frankódragó. So it's up to Feó to learn the art of ballet and avenge his father.

Stand up girls follows an eclectic group of icelandic women, ranging from bellydancers and anarchists to lesbian academics and suburban housewives, who have grown tired of the male dominated stand up scene in Iceland. They decide to form their own troupe and organize a stand up, braving the stage without an iota of experience - and it is a resounding success! Will they manage to follow it through? Are they all cut out for the spot light? Can the troupe survive the pressures of fame? And most importantly, are they really funny? All will be revealed.

First and only Icelandic Sci-Fi film. Nonni falls asleep while watching the fireworks on new years eve. He wakes up in an aircraft heading to the Moon.