Iceland Movies

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

Framed as a vintage sex-ed film, a cruise ship penetrates a fjord, recasting mass tourism as an intimate act of intrusion, attraction, and...

A programme dedicated to the Icelandic artist Ríkarður Jónsson.

"Reportage". Images from Berlin with special consideration to the division of the city by the Berlin Wall.

The eider do not migrate to warmer areas but survive the harsh winters in the North Atlantic. Perhaps that is why nature has provided the eider with...

Nine Icelandic gay teens tell us about their lives in their frozen corner of the world. Feeling excluded, experimenting with drugs and sex, finding...

A visit to the island of Drangey in Skagafjörður. The film shows the traditional egg collecting in the cliffs of Drangey and shows some...

Educational film about the freezing industry in Iceland in 1981. This documentary illustrates the diffrent stages in processing of fish, from the...

When Ruth, an eight year old who's recently lost her brother is made take part in a game of 'Hide and Seek' at a birthday party, she does exactly...

A documentary about the singer Kristinn Sigmundsson.

Everything, Everywhere, All the Time opens with the sound of musicians performing an old Icelandic folk song, Grýlukvæði. Only, a...

This film explores the option of home birth in Iceland, as seen through the lens of a female filmmaker who is forced to come to terms with her...

Filmed on location in New York City during the summer of 2009, Clean tells the story of one young woman’s struggle to conceal a growing habit,...

What lengths does a man go to hold on to love.

“Just Like a Painting by Eggert Pétursson” is a documentary on the painter Eggert Pétursson. In moraines near Skaftafell...

A corporate documentary about the construction of the hydro-electric power plant at Búrfell, from the beginning in 1966 until the inauguration...

Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan...

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