Iceland Movies

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....

Bjössi, a farmer, lives in the middle of nowhere with his flock of black sheep, which are his closest friends and family. One day he receives...

Kolbeinn and his friends are young Icelandic boxers, training for the Nordic Championship. A serious accident risks compromising their future, both...

This film is about the traditional puffin catch in the Westman Islands and shows the fowlers in action, often performing breathtaking feats in the...

Hemmi is keeping a secret from Anna. She suspects what it is but hopes at the same time that she’s wrong. She decides to confront him, ask him...

Based on the eponymous short story by Haraldur D Thorvaldsson, Siggi, a young man tries to deal with a world where he does not fit in and where...

A Thai mail-order bride comes to Iceland in search for a better life. When her new partner locks her in the house and takes her clothes from her she...

A drama shot on location in Reykjavík which deals with the pregnancy of a 16 year old schoolgirl and the effect it has on her life. This is an...

Kara and Jenný have been inseparable since kindergarten, but recently, Jenný has started drifting toward a new friend group. Desperate...

At 85, Icelandic design icon Gunnar Magnússon begins a final project with help from his daughter Tinna. As his health suddenly fails, she is...

Five-year-old Sól and her father live in an isolated house by the sea. Sól spends lonely days with her imagination while her father, a...

Blizzards and crevasses make the motorized journey over the glacier almost as picturesque as the exploration under it. Together these two faces of...

A documentary about the enigmatic Icelandic filmdirector Róska

A portrait of the life and work of the visual artist Birgir Andrésson (1955–2007). Andrésson grew up under unconventional...

A documentary about the Eldborg music festival

The story of Sigga, a 17 year-old girl trying to leave home in Iceland, and make her way to California.