Iceland Movies

16-year old Júlía has just moved from Norway to Iceland and struggles to balance caring for her younger sister with fitting in at a new...

Gays and lesbians lived in silence and fear in Iceland for the better part of the 20th century. Local songwriter and actor Hordur Torfason was the...

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...

Running with the Herd is a unique and beautiful film. Director Thorfinnur Gudnason and his team bring to life a dramatic tale with sharply defined...

Two sailors are under pressure from the fishing company to fish a lot of fish, but other problems arise.

It’s now 40 years since the end of the Cod Wars between Britain and Iceland. During the 1950s and 60s, Britain consumed 430,000 tons of cod...

When Ukrainian filmmaker Anastasiia Bortuali is displaced to Iceland, she documents her fellow refugees, capturing their fragility and strength...

Surrounded by toy animals, a father struggling with loss searches for one last connection.

Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub,...

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 chamber orchestra is working out of a rundown theatre in Reykjavik. Financial hardship places a great strain on the band and the lead violinist,...

If the world has an edge, then it is almost certainly visible from Iceland. On the outermost cape, beyond which there is only the inhospitable Arctic...

A man walks into a shop and meets a girl.

The most haunted house in Iceland is a small stone cottage by a raging glacial river in northeastern Iceland. Despite being built in a wasteland that...

A young couple moves into an old house. She teaches deaf children, he is a musician, working on his own compositions. Their separate worlds, one...