Iceland Movies

An educational film about a new type of trawler which had considerable effects on the fishing industry in its time (around 1947)

A film about boys who bring the struggle for their lives onto the soccer field. Hope springs eternal but here hope is a struggle with oneself and...

Young couple Anna and Gunnar live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse in a lottery every seven years. Full of heartache, the couple...

Guðbergur Bergsson is an Icelandic writer born in Grindavík on 16 October 1932. He went to the University of Iceland for his Teaching...

The story about Frieda Darvel, a young South-African girl, that lives on the street like many other children in Cape Town. One day she becomes nation...

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

The short film Godspeed is an introspective and poetic exploration of memory, love, and reconciliation. It tells the story of two men who meet in a...

2002's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.

A documentary film about the Icelandic politician Jónas Jónsson frá Hriflu.

Swedish-Icelandic documentary film commissioned by Iceland's tourist board, which in magnificent color photography links the heritage from the fairy...

A documentary about the Eldborg music festival

The Stained Glass Windows had been salvaged from Coventry’s medieval cathedral before it was bombed out by German forces but in 1942 they...

An old Icelandic country singer at a crossroad in his career and life tries to get back one last time in the saddle. Meanwhile he has to reconcile...

The Hot Tub is a short documentary which explores the unique cultural experience of frequenting the hot tubs in the local swimming pools in Iceland....

The story of the last trip of the freighter and passenger ship Godafoss was shot down by a German sub just outside the Reykjavik harbor in 1944. The...