Iceland Movies

A man walks into a shop and meets a girl.

Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of...

In a barren land ruled by oppression and ignorance, a spirited woman driven by hope of a better life must fight against the odds. Agnes is a servant...

A documentary film about a garbage collector and his views on life.

A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.

A photographer travels along the south coast of Iceland in an attempt to capture an undying image of the lighthouse in Hrolllaugseyjum. As he battles...

Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, but spent his youth in the country. From the age of seventeen...

A film about the return of the Icelandic manuscript from Denmark.

A documentary about the enigmatic Icelandic filmdirector Róska

Some Icelanders maintain a strong and mysterious relationship with Snæfellsjökull, a volcano-glacier located in the West of the island....

A film by Baldvin Z & Ólafur Arnalds Island Songs is a unique audio-visual portrait of my home country, Iceland. In 2016 I travelled to 7...

Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes,...

Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s...

Set on a remote farm on the west coast of Iceland in late summer 1936. Hrefna, encouraged by her grandmother’s stories, begins to mix past and...

A short film about a troubled Icelandic teen and his relationship with his younger brother.

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

A boy growing up in the country in the sixties is fascinated by card games and ancient poetry.

This film is about one fo the eruptions of the well-known volcano, Hekla, in Southern Iceland. Usually the damage caused by Hekla is in the form of...

Six people. Living in one building but following different paths. Each gets through the day in their own way – and with their own voice.

A documentary about the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson