Iceland Movies

This documentary tells the story of the aviation entrepreneur Alfred Eliasson, founder and manager of Loftleidir Icelandic, who is recognized as one...

'Quicksand' is a documentary about the Icelandic middle class today. Despite fulltime work, many struggle to make ends meet. The film follows a...

A young boy is spending the summer on his uncle's horse farm. He takes care of the sheep and plays cowboy but is suddenly drawn into the world of...

Sveinn Þórarinsson (1821-68), kept a diary from his youth until death. His diary entries that concern music are the leitmotif in the...

When the heroine of the film gets what she always hoped for, she becomes miserable and unhappy and really misses what she had.

A precious pearl necklace is stolen from a dying widow and repeatedly changes hands because many covet it, leaving behind a long trail of blood.

Two twins separated at birth grow up to be artists in an eccentric Icelandic film, that just like a science fiction film asks the question: 'What if...

WHEN WE ARE BORN is a unique live performance film that tells a touching and thoroughly human story based in part on Ólafur’s life....

A documentary about the Icelandic artist Sverrir Haraldsson

In September 2015 there were 400 years since the slaying of 32 Basque whalers in Iceland.

A young man returns to his childhood home to improve his relationship with his father. However, when he arrives, everything seems different.

Gays and lesbians lived in silence and fear in Iceland for the better part of the 20th century. Local songwriter and actor Hordur Torfason was the...

A film about the island of Viðey in Kollafjörður and its manifold role in Icelandic history.

Set on a remote farm on the west coast of Iceland in late summer 1936. Hrefna, encouraged by her grandmother’s stories, begins to mix past and...