Iceland Movies

Documentary about an unusual beauty contest in the desolate area of Iceland’s West Fjords where wrinkles and cellulite are a plus.

Brynja is having the time of her life in a foreign country when all of a sudden her world is turned upside down. She finds herself standing at a...

Edna Lupita investigates her life with the help of two professional actors who strive to connect her past to her present, her mental illness, and her...

In the summer of 1984, Iceland's king of country music, Hallbjörn Hjartarson, arranged the first and only Icelandic cowboy-festival. This...

Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually takes them to an unknown emotional territory...

The short film Reyndu aftur (Try Again) follows a young man whose suicide attempt is interrupted by an ex-girlfriend. By mistake, he tells a...

Dora has been unemployed for some period of time and she and her family are therefore facing financial difficulties. One day she receives an...

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...

An unexpected first kiss causes Gabriel to feel the electrifying "jitters" of love and lust with the free-spirited Marcus; a perfect way to end a...

The School of Housewives is a documentary film about the self-image of the Icelandic housewife and how the role of this school has changed over the...

A film about scientific research on the glacier Vatnajökull with excerpts from films taken on the glacier by various film makers in the past.

A family gathering takes an unexpected turn when a grandfather shares life changing news, provoking reactions that range from support to disbelief.

Through 46 postcards written along the Camino, a husband’s pilgrimage becomes a meditation on marriage, memory, and the enduring power of love...

The summer of 2004 two engineer from Seyðisfjörður found a three-blade broach and an oval broach high up in the mountains of East Fjords...

The film is a conversation between the director and the composer. The image and the music relate to each other, creating a very special kind of a...

Through a series of mishaps Didda loses her need for glasses, and gains the power of superhuman vision. A power that comes to good use when Didda...

The story of Iceland’s oldest boys band, Studmenn, is truly remarkable and is told here from childhood till ripe old age.

When Guðjón, an Icelandic farmer, loses his beloved in the war raging throughout most of the world, he builds a small hut in her memory...

The film begins in the early hours of the morning of January 23rd 1973. A mile long fissure had ripped itself open on the outskirt of the fishing...