The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
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.
The job of a prisonguard is a strange one; they work on the border of free society and prison. This documentary follows the lives of the prisonguards as they do their job of guarding the prisoners.
Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and think about himself, his life and his family. If his life is going to end sooner than he expected, he wants to know how much it's been worth to him. Has life been worth living? Is it worth fighting for; is it worth a struggle against death? He takes a look at his family, a group of ordinary people, who are the colourful heroes of everyday life, struggling along in a world far removed from the world of high finance, power politics and international intrigues, but yet to them their lives are lives of high adventure. Those adventures, from the sublime to the ridiculous, form the storyline of the film, told against the background of Magnús' dilemma.
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.
As the Icelandic economy collapses, Gudfinna (58) struggles to retain her dignity.
Saga gets hit by a fierce epileptic attack walking in a public park with her six-year-old son resulting in a total memory loss. Afraid of being considered unable to take care of her son, Saga attempts to hide her state from others and occupies herself digging for the answers she needs from within. As she struggles to gather bits and pieces from her forgotten life, repressed memories that Saga unconsciously blocked as a child suddenly start to come back, revealing a painful truth about herself and her past.
A band's and their crew's miscommunication leading them to being on the opposite sides of the country leads to comic consequences.
Clutch Powers ventures on a mission assigned to him by his boss to solve the chaos that occurred on the Space Police prison planet.
Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
In an attempt to fix his financial problems, Erik recruits his brother, Atli, to help him import a shipment of cocaine into Iceland. Erik thinks he's got things all figured out, until the young Polish “mule” they've hired is unable to pass the drugs through her system.
A tale of how Njál, a character from the Icelandic Sagas, is burned at the stake.
The actress is to produce a play with the local amateur group and old romantic flames are rekindled. At the same time an American army unit is making experiments with a new and powerful energy source in the vicinity, promising the community a prosperous future.
There is an old barbershop in the center of town. This is where Einar has cut hair for half a century or so. He has seen good times and bad times but independent from contemporary tendencies, he has always maintained his own style, but in recent years he has had to deal with the inevitable, his customers grow older, and one by one they slowly disappear. One day they simply don’t show up for their scheduled haircut. But what happens when one of his customers keeps coming after he is dead.
A group of middle-aged women decide to go out to a cabin in the countryside to relax and forget about the struggles of daily life. But under the nice surface lies a world of long-kept secrets that risks sending the trip into chaos.
Two men in their late twenties, Jim and Frank, old friends from childhood, both emaciated and very grunge guys, meet again after many years. Jim, trying hard to get his life back on track, is pulled in to his old habits of drugs and crimes by Frank and his friends from their old neighbourhood. They set out to help Frank's father to brake out of jail who in return finances their "shopping trip" to Amsterdam.
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.
A story based on the folk tale of the ghost Djákninn from Myrká set in modern day Iceland.
Two lifelong friends find their small-town routine thrown into peril when a buxom and beautiful woman their own age shows up in their hot tub.
It’s a spring morning in Reykjavík. A man and a woman wake up in their bed and know that their relationship has ended. They take a drive out of the city, towards the end of love, perhaps toward the end of the world. A story of love, loss, and the mysterious power of nature herself.
Failed TV-Personality Frimann Gunnarsson tries to revive his career and travels around Scandinavia to investigates Nordic sense of humour. He meets up with some of the best known comedians in Scandinavia, some might even call it the Champions League of Nordic comedy (Frimann himself for instance). Although he has high hopes to educate his viewers on the secrets about quality-humour, Frimann Gunnarsson fails miserably when each episode goes way off track.
A six-part Icelandic series about Karen, a 38-year-old marriage counselor and mother of three, who faces difficult decisions when she finds out that her husband has been unfaithful to her. She has trouble forgiving her husband, but the worst she can think of is the so-called "Dad holidays".
The eighteen-year-old Kolbeinn lives with his grandmother and grandfather and dreams of becoming the best in football, but that dream goes further away when he does not make it into the main team. He sets a goal to join the team next year, but many obstacles in his personal life stand in his way.
Sketch comedy show from the Icelandic comedy-group Mid-Iceland.
In films from the first half of the 20th century and up to the late 1950s, there is a desire to tackle this new form of expression with optimism and audacity, but also difficult circumstances and broken dreams. Films examined include Fjalla-Eyvindur, Saga of the Citizenship, The Adventures of Jon and Gvendir, Hadda Padda, The Rescue at Látrabjarg, Between the Mountain and the Sea, The Last Farm in the Valley, Greed, and Salka Valka.
Lubbi is an Icelandic Sheepdog who dreams of learning Icelandic.
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.
Jól á leið til jarðar is an Icelandic television series that first aired on Icelandic public television channel Sjónvarpið in December 1994. The series is a part of Jóladagatal Sjónvarpsins, an ongoing series of televised advent calendars. It was created by Sigurður Örn Brynjólfsson and Friðrik Erlingsson, and was the first stop-motion advent calendar on Icelandic television. The show was produced at Nukufilm studios in Tallinn, Estonia. The show was voiced by actors and comedians Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Laddi and Örn Árnason. Jól á leið til jarðar was rerun on Sjónvarpið in December 1999 and 2007. A physical advent calendar containing leads to each episode's plot was published in conjunction with the initial airing of the series.
This is the Icelandic equivalent of The Office, with a much more interesting twist: the protagonist is a woman.
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.
It's time to say goodbye for Benedikt, who seems to be going in peace, until he decides to live no matter what.
A great quiz show hosted by the stand-up comedian and TV personality Björn Bragi Arnarsson, where well-known Icelanders compete on behalf of the sports clubs they support. Although the teams are divided according to sports clubs, it is not a sports event, but questions from all directions. Competitors are not athletes, it is enough that they grew up in the district of the sports club or practiced sports with the club in their younger years. The teams that win their matches will continue to play until one team stands out as the winner and will be crowned Icelandic Champion in the Kviss quiz.
