Iceland Movies

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,...

A pop opera with a moralistic undertone.

Amateurs Paradise is a heartfelt and humorous film, that dissects humanity’s impulse to document through four men across generations. Using...

A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.

During an entrance exam for drama school, Anna must confront emotional turmoil from her past—or risk losing her lifelong dream.

A documentary that chronicles the twenty years of Pride parading in Iceland. Filmmaker Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir has shot the parade from the...

Adam, a narcissistic actor on the verge of stardom, finds a threatening note on his car, which throws his life and self-image into turmoil just...

This film shows three different methods for catching herrings which Icelanders have used in the past century. The use of the nets is illustrated with...

Klás wanders into an apartment complex, dressed as Santa Claus, with the intention to jump of the balcony but wasn't counting on meeting a...

This is a personal story of one small woman’s fight to save one of the planet’s largest animals. Lek has saved hundreds of Asian...

Gudmundsson has spent most of his life outside Iceland after he first moved to the Netherlands in 1963. He has homes and studios in Amsterdam,...

On a dead-calm morning in the Mediterranean, the migrant rescue ship of Doctors Without Borders spots a deflating rubber boat. Dozens of people are...

In a remote fjord in 1940s Iceland, young farmer Bjarni and aspiring poet Helga begin a passionate, forbidden affair, emotions running as wild as the...

A film about the famous Icelandic ballet dancer Helgi Tómasson.

The eighteen-year-old Lilja visits Áróra and Grímur, her estranged grandparents, in the city as she undergoes auditions for an...