I'm a simple man - My name is Gleb

I'm a simple man - My name is Gleb 2020

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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.

2020

One Scene

One Scene 2012

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Katrin is a woman who knows what she wants. She's had enough of the snow and ice. And sheep that always want to be fed. When she meets the Grizzler, a wanderer , her life takes a sharp turn towards the unexpected.

2012

MÍR: Hundred Years of Revolution

MÍR: Hundred Years of Revolution 2020

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During the 1950s, very much in the spirit of the day, some progressive-minded Icelanders founded an association that would cultivate good relations with the USSR – by showing films, among other activities. Now the superpower is gone, but their Icelandic friends are still showing Soviet movies once a week.

2020

Reykjavík City Symphony

Reykjavík City Symphony 2020

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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.

2020

Motherly Love

Motherly Love 2018

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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.

2018

Gilitrutt

Gilitrutt 1957

5.00

A fairy tale based on the stories about the troll Gilitrutt

1957

The Heroes Journey - Karl Beinteinn

The Heroes Journey - Karl Beinteinn 2019

3.00

Karl Beinteinn lives alone in the west side of Reykjavik in Iceland. He despises everything around him except for fast food chains and violent films. His favorite film is Fight Club but he seems to misunderstand it and has never finished it.

2019

Flight 401 to New York

Flight 401 to New York 1967

10.00

Documentary following airline stewardesses on a flight from Iceland to New York. We see a regular day in the air and how they spend their time in the big apple.

1967

Tunglið, tunglið taktu mig

Tunglið, tunglið taktu mig 1955

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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.

1955

66/23 North West, The Day of the Avalanche

66/23 North West, The Day of the Avalanche 2010

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North West tells the amazing story of one of the biggest rescue operation Iceland has seen after a huge avalanche hit a small fishing village, Flateyri, 26. of October 1995. Before an outside help reached Flateyri the locals were on their own during the first five hours, searching and digging up their neighbors, friends and relatives and organizing the rescue. Many obstacles, such as storm and further danger of avalanches, were on the way as rescue teams nation wide, helicopters and ships tried to find their way to Flateyri. This snow avalanche was on of the deadliest in Iceland’s history, and the 1995 is memored as being the most costly in human lives in recent, local history of natural disasters. This story is told by rescuers, media people, the former president of Iceland, and survivors who some were under the snow for 9 hours.

2010

Bobo - A Man Apart

Bobo - A Man Apart 1970

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1973, the Vietnam War is coming to a close as the world buckles under new attitudes and changing priorities. Far from the din of history, in a small village in southern Iceland, a young man falls for a soldier at the nearby US army base.

1970

No Bone No Skin

No Bone No Skin 2011

7.00

On board a factory trawler from a small village in the north of Iceland, a group of fishermen have found an unusual way to deal with the rough life at sea. They put together a band - No Bone No Skin. The music of - No Bone No Skin stays close to home and deals with the everyday life of the fishermen, their longings, hopes, fears and desires. In fact it is their own work songs

2011

Sogið

Sogið 1954

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A documentary on the nature around Sogið in Iceland and the people living there. The focus is on the farmers and visitors staying at summer houses.

1954

CURSE.

CURSE. 1970

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When the Cameraman finds a ring in an abandoned house he starts seeing weird things.

1970