Route 7 2024
A black man faces prejudice on the bus, but his day takes a positive turn when an elementary school girl starts talking to him.
A black man faces prejudice on the bus, but his day takes a positive turn when an elementary school girl starts talking to him.
Two guys have an argument over one of them picking Sprite over Seven Up with violent consequences.
Four friends in two pairs have to face all sorts of inconveniences on their way to Selfoss.
There is no one to say that a senior citizen can’t come up with great entrepreneurial ideas. In Senior Citizen Expand we meet two older gentlemen who take on a trip to China to put their idea into motion.
How do the houses we live in and their architecture affect our lives and lifestyles? The film explores the relationship between apartments and their inhabitants through the everyday life of people in four different flats in a housing project in Reykjavík.
How do you like Iceland? is a documentary about foreigners' perception of Icelanders. The film is mainly based on interviews with 37 foreigners from 9 countries who come from the world of art, sport, business and politics. Many humorous questions and interesting topics arise when the Icelandic nation is examined through the eye of the foreigner: Do foreigners think of Reykjavík as Bangkok of the north? Are the Icelanders an isolated and inbred nation? Or rather special and like no other? Is Icelandic inventiveness fit for export? Is the "pure and unspoiled" nation itself environmentally friendly?
This documentary is an invitation to an adventurous travel about the central highlands of Iceland within and surrounding the Vatnajökull Galcier - Europes larget icecap. A travel begins at the surface of the hot spot under Vatnajökull, where fire and ice go hand in hand.
Close to the Artic Circle, Iceland offers exotic landscape and eccentric people. We offer a highly entertaining sports-program focusing on fun, human interest and extreme situation. The programs are youth oriented with fast edits and loads of music. We will fallow athletes from different types of actionsports as the perform exciting acts with amazing landscapes from Iceland as backdrops. It looks scary to us but for them it's just fun! Why do they do it and what kind of a kick do the get out of it? We cover snowboarding on several locations in Iceland, mostly on glaciers which are very extreme locations. River rafting or kayaking down powerful rivers originating from melting glaciers is another adventure. Among other adventures will be downhill mountain biking, ice climbing, cave-diving, surfing and similar extreme sports. We find those people fascinating and the camera loves them for what they do!
What happens to an ordinary Icelandic family when the father of a new-born baby gets the opportunity to stay at home with the baby for three months? Will the relationship between father and wife better, and will the distribution of household chores be any different? And what has the employer and the colleagues at work to say about this arrangement? Those questions are among other that are asked in the documentary Fathers in paternity leave. We fallow one of the fathers through his paternity leave, talk to some others and interview, among others, a sociologist and a psychologist who are experts on the matter.
Árni Egilsson is considered to be among the finest double bass players in the world. Jón Páll a guitarist and a natural born talent. Skúli Sverrisson, an electric bass player, who at the age of 30 has gained recognition as one of New York's finerst young talents. This creative documentary in three parts is shot on location in California and New York. Fine cinematography an those three strong individuals result in a unique and entertaining television program.
In July we fallow puffin catchers going on small boats to uninhabited rocky islands where they catch the flying birds into nets. This hunt is very dangerous as the men have to operate from narrow ledges in cliffs high above the surfing ocean. In August we see another side of the puffin/man relationship, as the children lovingly collect helpless puffin chicks from streets and alleys and keep them in cardboard boxes at their homes for the night until the can help them to the sea in the morning.
In August 1997, British rock band Blur launched what is probably the most astonishing and exotic rock'n'roll tour of all times, called Next Stop North Pole. They where to play for Nordic nations not at all used to concerts by the most popular band of that time. See Iceland, The Faroe Islands and Greenland through the eyes of Blur.
A breathtakingly beautiful valley between three glaciers, one of them Eyjafjallajökull. It may well have been the inspiration to Tolkien as he visited. Iceland before he started drawing the outlines of the famous Ring Trilogy. Thorsmork can only be reached with difficulty, hidden away between glaciers and trecherous rivers, but is still one of the most popular places in the country to visit. The film about Thorsmörk shows it’s beauty and lure. From bird’s eye view you will experience an overall impression of a magical landscape; where the deep green of lush plants meets the blackness of the wide sands lined with silvery bands of untamed rivers flowing through it. And right above rise magnificent glacier covered mountains. Thorsmörk’s flora, fauna and geography is explained by a narrator, guiding the viewer through the magical landscape of one of nature’s unforgetteble beauty spots.