Iceland Movies

Three tales of children each in a different nothern country, Greenland, the Pharoe Islands and Iceland.

Sugarcube is a small story about growing up and facing the complications of adulthood with its social traditions, complex communications, and love....

On Christmas Eve, an Icelandic family comes face to face with the Yule Cat, a ravenous creature of folklore hungry for those who didn't get clothes...

Isolated people yearn for human contact and connection. Their search leads them to discover something new and unexpected within themselves.

A documentary about the soil erosion in Iceland, the creation of the largest man made desert in Europe.

The old harbour in Reykjavík was once the town's most important centre for freight transport, and as late as 1966 it was still used by...

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...

The Wedding Gift tells a tale of a mother, a son and his wife and a sewing machine. Filmed almost entirely in a car, the cramped space gives tension...

She is shy, sincere, beautiful and provoking both as a person and on stage. She is one of our best contemporaray dancers in Europe and has received...

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

Svava Jakobsdóttir is one of Iceland's greatest author. She fought long and hard for equality for women in Iceland and her work became an...

The film, which is based on earlier footage taken by Steindór Sigurðsson, Árni Stefánsson & Guðmundur Einarsson,...

Beautiful documentary by Osvaldur Knudsen about the eruption on Heimaey in the Vestmann Islands in 1973 (South of Iceland). The eruption destroyed...

This documentary film shows the development of the wool industry in Iceland, and the old ways to work the wool, used on Icelandic farms throughout...

The journey of Icelandic trans kayaker Veiga Grétarsdóttir. An expedition beyond transformation.

Waste takes place in an imaginary civil war in the hitherto peaceful and pacifist Icelandic society. The film tells the story of a soldier who...