Iceland Movies

An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival...

Johanna Sigurdardottir became prime minister In Iceland following the financial crisis of 2008. She was the first openly gay prime minister in the...

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The music video for the song track depicts the drowning of a young child, who is, towards the end of the video, rescued by a diver and, as in the...

In September 2009 the Icelandic Search and Rescue team receive an emergency call from the Republic of Thule. An earthquake has destroyed the capital...

Over the course of a year, we watch the bridge builder Haukur Karlsson and the musician Pál Pamphichler Pálsson at work, including the...

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A documentary about the Icelandic sculptor, Helgi Gíslason. The film shows Gíslason at work as he casts his sculptures in bronze using...

An aging man has to come to terms with the fact he can't contribute as much to society as he once did.

This film is about the painter Sveinn Björnsson (1925-1997), and his struggles to perfect his art. Following a wide-ranging exhibition at the...

A documentary about the disastrous consequences of a volcanic eruption known as "Skaftáreldar", which took place in 1784.

A film about the island of Flatey in Breiðafjord,

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In an unspecified war-torn European country, two young girls, aged about 8 and 4, struggle to survive, the older girl having to find food and...

Icelandic country boy Tómas R. Einarsson got hooked on rhythm in childhood, but couldn't imagine that anything so much fun could be a job. In...

Most of his working life after that was spent in Germany and Switzerland but Iceland remained a refuge, an inspiration, the home to his family and a...

The film is about a little boy, living in the centre of Reykjavík during the first years of Second World War. While poverty is still a fact of...

Haunted Trails is a drama documentary about the relationship of Icelanders with history and histories, the relationship of the living with the dead,...

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...

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