After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted.
TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga. The first part of Njálssaga is a half-hour long drama based on a part of Brenna-Nálssaga. It tells the story of Hallgerður Langbrók having food stolen in Kirkjubær and the horse she received as a reward from Gunnar. This is followed by Gunnar's quarrel with Otkel in Kirkjubær and his advisor Skammkel. Their business ends with Gunnar killing both of them. The second part is a half-hour long documentary where scholars bring out something interesting about this part of the story.
In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.
Erik likes to have a drink once in a while. The day after a good party, sitting with his girlfriend having a chat, he meets people he doesn't remember. Has he arrived at a crossroads? Is Erik in deeper trouble than usual?
A man finds himself mistakenly taken hostage by a troll-size debt collector and driven into the mountains. Things go from bad to considerably worse when a real troll shows up. Fortunately for the man, this particular troll is very particular about what she eats.
A Mother's Courage (aka The Sunshine Boy) is a moving, compassionate portrayal of a mother's desperate quest to understand the perplexing condition that controls her son. A journey through different countries, where every stop-over opens a new path into the depths of autism - and places her son in a strikingly different perspective as it reaches the end.
Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance by William Heinesen, and set on an island in 1913. Pétur (Gunnar Helgason) narrates, recalling the days when mainlanders arrived for a wedding. Flirtatious Sirsa (Pálína Jónsdottir) marries Harald (Dofri Hermannsson), son of a wealthy landowner on the island. Offshore, a ship is sinking, so the men form a rescue party, returning with the captain, the engineer, and several sailors. With a storm gathering, the engineer dies. The clergyman requests an end to the festivities as a mark of respect. Sirsa protests, but her new husband brings the celebration to a halt. The group then fragments into different activities, drunken or otherwise, and the sensual Sirsa directs her attention toward the handsome Ívar (Baldur Trausti Hreinsson). The film's score features traditional folk music.
A young Icelandic football player is on the cusp of living his childhood dream. Crucially, he will have to leave the familiar comforts of his home town to achieve this goal, a departure which turns out to be somewhat more painful than he anticipated.
A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father but he's too preoccupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to loser friends talk about what Sylvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.
We journey with a magic ship into unknown worlds, meeting the people whose lives it has touched. Skaftfellingur Saga tells the tale of the small community Vik. Situated on the rugged most southern tip of Iceland, between the roaring ocean and the menacing volcano Katla, rumbling deep under the glacier.
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thór and Kristján experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.
Karen, a 9 year old Icelander has always wanted to meet her London based actor father. Having fantasied about him for years, she realizes when they meet that he's perhaps not the father that she had wished for. This uncomfortable experience gives Karen both the strength and confidence to tackle the local bullies.
A political comedy about the effects of the apparent discovery of gold in the sands near a small community on Iceland's south coast. Troops from the American NATO base "invade" the territory, journalists from Reykjavik arrive and the morals of the local inhabitants quickly turn topsy-turvy.
A man seeking death and a woman escaping life attempt to reconcile a decades-long cycle of vengeance with more violence, contrary to the cosmic plan.
Margrét, a middle-aged office worker, wakes to see cows walking around downtown Reykjavík. When she arrives at her office, she realizes that she’s the only one who can see them. Chaos ensues when a cow appears in the cafeteria.
A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together on a high-end fear of flying course. The course's final challenge is an experience flight from London to Iceland, which ends up being a horrendous ordeal. Lost in Iceland, freezing and terrified, they must find a way of facing their fears and working together to spread their wings... and fly.
A film about a woman named Sesselja
Young Joel doesn’t quite fit in anywhere so he desperately tries to make friends with a local motorcross gang. On a bright summer night Joel gets the chance to get accepted into the gang, but without knowing what kind of sinister process lies ahead.
A documentary that explores the dim world of illicit trade in antiquities, as well as the long and hard struggle for the repatriation of all stolen treasures.
After narrowly avoiding death an elderly man tries to organize his own wedding while the relationships of his loved ones seem to be crumbling all around him.
In this travel series, we follow childhood friends and comedians from Mosfellsbær, Steindi Jr and Dóri DNA, on their journey around the world as they explore all the most lackluster, cheesy, and bizarre things it has to offer.
Gott kvöld is a comedic talk series hosted by Benni and Sveppi, along with his co-host Fannar, featuring discussions with popular Icelandic celebrities from various fields. The show follows the main interview where Benni and the guest chat about their lives and careers. The format then transitions to Fannar, who takes the guest out for a unique, humorous activity, creating a distinctive and fun end to the segment.
The ever-affable Professor Katmandu, headquartered at the Mouseum, and his robotic assistant Ms. B, deliver a mission to Trekkers: MIP, MAC, and MO. These tiny adventurers use their smarts to track down rare and endangered artifacts in legendary locales across the globe. In each quest, the three friends tackle adventurous challenges and sort out their own foibles to work as a team.
The show traces the history of architecture and urban planning in Reykjavík in the twentieth century. The series begins in 1915, in the big fire where many wooden houses in the town were destroyed. Then the time of the concrete houses began.
Felix and Gunni have to search for Völundur the smith, as he is the one who makes the Christmas presents. The search is like an adventure, as the friends enter one labyrinth after another and meet all sorts of villains. But they carry on undaunted, overcoming fear and other obstacles.
A story about four Icelandic detectives, working in the gloomy everyday life in Reykjavik where international crime rings are starting to operate.
It's time to say goodbye for Benedikt, who seems to be going in peace, until he decides to live no matter what.
In 1979, a group of Icelanders holiday in Spain.
Gettu betur is an Icelandic team quiz show, broadcast on public television channel RÚV. Each team consists of three students from each of Iceland's gymnasiums. Two teams play against each other in each episode. Two preliminary rounds are broadcast on radio station Rás 2, followed by televised quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds on RÚV. Thirty schools participated in the 2011 season. The current host is Edda Hermannsdóttir. Gettu betur was first held in 1986. Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík has won the contest seventeen times overall, first in 1988, and then eleven times in a row, from 1993 to 2003, from 2007 to 2010 and in 2012. The only other school to win more than once is Akureyri Junior College, with three wins.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, relations between the former allied eastern and western powers deteriorated fast. Suddenly, the small island nation found itself in the midst of the ensuing “cold-war”, which it used to its full benefit to catapult into the modern world. A founding member of the NATO alliance, Iceland provided an important base for forward operations in protection of NATO’s northern flank and Scandinavia and the approaches to North America by U.S. and allied forces.
Anxiety and melancholy enters the relationship of two friends who dream of releasing music together. When Klara, their school sister, enters the picture, the friendship becomes even more complicated.
Sindri Sindrason is now talking about domestic violence and we look into the world of victims who seem to have in common that they dare not tell for the longest time, are ashamed and want no one to know. Then we try to look into the minds of the perpetrators and try to understand what it is about their behavior that makes victims submit to their will.
