Iceland Movies

Thorsteinn J. interviews his mother who is dying from lung cancer. He connects what he hears with fragments from his own life, including his journeys...

Newsreel depicting the stay of Lowell Smith and Erik Nelson in Reykjavik during their 1924 flight around the world.

A stylized account of an Icelandic country dance. The film features the Icelandic pop group Hljómar (Thor's Hammer).

Gravity is a comically tragic short film that playfully deals with the concept of reality tunnels. On the surface it is about friendship, love, space...

An avant-garde absurd short film saturated with horror. A child witnesses her home being invaded by bimbo-looking witches through the lenses of a DV...

A documentary about the life of a "famous" bum in Iceland.

There is very little information available online on this little gem, the first 'feature-length' film shot exclusively in Iceland by an Icelandic...

The Chicken Commander is a unique film about a few Icelandic civilians, from a country that has no military, suddenly bearing arms at garrison KAIA...

A documentary about the Icelandic artist Sverrir Haraldsson

The job of a prisonguard is a strange one; they work on the border of free society and prison. This documentary follows the lives of the prisonguards...

A breathtakingly beautiful valley between three glaciers, one of them Eyjafjallajökull. It may well have been the inspiration to Tolkien as he...

The film discusses the gap between the public and "accepted" art.

This film follows the Icelandic musical icon Bubbi Morthens as he lays the ground for his umpteenth solo album. Originally a live recording of the...