Iceland Movies

A programme dedicated to the Icelandic artist Ríkarður Jónsson.

The logbook of a few Icelandic trawler-men in 1947-1970. It was dangerous to go on a drinking spree in those days — the Icelandic trawlers were...

Canvas and Curtains is a documentary about the icelandic artist and scenographer, Steinthor Sigurdsson. This biography narrates Steinthors story from...

Jan Mayen is a narrow island, 50 km long, northeast of Iceland. It belongs to Norway which has a weather- and military station situated there. The...

Grímsey is an island 40km north of Iceland, the northernmost inhabited area of the country measuring 2.5 km in length. It has been populated...

The story revolves around the seacaptain Valdimar who marries Unnur, but on the night of their wedding strange things start to happen which leads...

Sigfus is a young man who doesn't believe in God. But one day he starts seeing strange messages all around him which seem to come from God himself....

The staff at the bureau of values may be the greatest bureaucrats in the world, but they have the most colourful dreams, not to mention their...

Gummi and Gúa live together in a fishing village when everything in their lives start to change.

Five friends gather for a celebration that spins wildly out of control. Something goes terribly wrong. Next morning, national sports icon, swimmer...

The 1955 strike in Reykjavík was one of the hardest-hitting strikes in Iceland’s history. The Reykjavík of the time was a growing...

Thorbjörn Steingrimsson is an unusual shepherd. He does not have sheep or goats but ramshackle cars from which he extracts working components...

There is an astonishing relationship between man and the cormorant. In China the bird is used for fishing, in Peru its droppings are used as...

After a heartbreaking split with his girlfriend, acting student Angantýr goes through various stages of grief while preparing for his final...

Indiana lives in a council estate and makes her living preying on the welfare system. In her small private garden she tends to her award winning...

About Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married...