Iceland Movies

The story of Sóley is about freedom and oppression. Set in Iceland in the dark eighteenth-century, it relates the adventures of a young farmer...

A documentary about life in a fishing village showing the people's dependence on the sea (filmed in Ólafsvík).

Various events of importance to the nation and to individual persons during the cold war and from about 1960 emerge as fragments of the memory of a...

Belong to you follows a swimming pool employee who thinks about his relationship with his coworker on a quiet night.

12 hours in the life of a young man who has just received bad news which change everything.

Some people have to live their lives on a constant look out for snakes. Some even have to wear boots all the time. But people in Iceland have the...

Two sailors are under pressure from the fishing company to fish a lot of fish, but other problems arise.

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

Gudmundur Felix lost both arms in a horrible work accident in 1998, when he climbed a high voltage mast for repair work. His biggest wish is to hug...

The year is 2035. Civil war rages in America, poverty at an all time high, but Fannar and Lilja are just going to a dinner party.

It’s now 40 years since the end of the Cod Wars between Britain and Iceland. During the 1950s and 60s, Britain consumed 430,000 tons of cod...

A year after loosing his family in an accident, Gunnar decides to honor their memory by walking to the place they died. On his way he meets Ewa, a...

This film explores the five different Icelandic national costumes, including their meaning for people in earlier times and the influence they...

The battle of two great chess players to mentally overpower one another takes on a dimension of life-or-death physicality as their duel begins to...

In September 2003, thirteen people from Iceland set out for an adventure. Their goal was to stage their successful, Icelandic production of Romeo and...

Icelandic powerlifting documentary, entitled “HRIKALEGIR!!!” (“Horrific!!!” – Icelandic power cheer), following the...

Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time...