title: Dimmuborgir

overview: Dimmuborgir are situated in one of Iceland’s most active volcanic zones. The film gives a clear account of the formation of this magnificant citadel of lava. The geology of the area is described and the viewer is brought into contact with its incomparable scenic beauty and birdlife as well as with the great danger facing this jewel in Icelandic landscape.

title: Dimmuborgir

original_title: Dimmuborgir - kynjaheimur við Mývatn


title: Að fleyta rjómann

status: Released

title: Að fleyta rjómann

job: Screenplay

department: Writing

type: Crew

job: Director

department: Directing

original_title: Að fleyta rjómann

original_language: is


title: Vor í vesturbænum

title: Vor í vesturbænum

original_title: Vor í vesturbænum


title: The Siberian Express

title: The Siberian Express

original_title: Síberíuhraðlestin


title: Með vængi á heilanum

overview: In this documentary we get to know the Icelandic writer Einar Már Guðmundsson who won the Nordic price for literature in 1995. Einar Már Guðmundsson is one of the best known writers in Iceland and his works have been translated into english and the other Nordic languages. Besides his books of prose and poetry he has also written film manuscripts and in the documentary we see, among interviews with the writer himself and commentators on him and his work, clips from the films.

title: Með vængi á heilanum

original_title: Með vængi á heilanum


title: Kleppsspítalinn

title: Kleppsspítalinn

original_title: Kleppsspítalinn


title: Jöklar á fljúgandi ferð

title: Jöklar á fljúgandi ferð

character: Narrator

type: Cast

job: Still Photographer

department: Camera

original_title: Jöklar á fljúgandi ferð


title: The Icelandic Eider

overview: 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 down that has more insulatingqualities than any other bird down. The dilm shows eider "farming", a unique form of harvesting the down without harming the birds. The eider the most numerous of all ducks and geese in Iceland, counting more than half a million individuals. They return year after to a well kept colony, the biggest counting more than 6000 pairs. The female eders are seen lining ther nests with down which they pluck from their bodies. The down is collected after the clutch has left the nest.

title: The Icelandic Eider

job: Producer

department: Production

original_title: Íslenski æðurinn


title: Icelanders on the North Pole

title: Icelanders on the North Pole

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Íslendingar á Norðurpólnum


title: Húsnæðisbyltingin

title: Húsnæðisbyltingin

original_title: Húsnæðisbyltingin


title: From Turfhouses to Technology

overview: When the first Icelandic engineer returned to Iceland from his studies in Denmark a hundred years ago most Icelanders lived in great poverty in dark turf houses as thet had done for centuries. One could hardly speak of any roads, only some trails formed through the centuries by man and animals. There where no bridges over the rivers, only one lighthouse and no man-made harbour to speak of. This documentary shows the evoliution of technology in Iceland and the great changes that the society has undergone since the first engineer arrived with new ideas and knowledge that has turned Iceland into a highly modern society in a very short span of time.

title: From Turfhouses to Technology

original_title: Frá torfkofa til tæknialdar


title: After the Flood

title: After the Flood

original_title: Eftir flóðið


title: Glíma

title: Glíma

job: Music

department: Sound

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Sound

original_title: Glíma


title: Þórsmörk - The Hidden Valley of Thor

type: Poster

overview: A breathtakingly beautiful valley between three glaciers, one of them Eyjafjallajökull. It may well have been the inspiration to Tolkien as he visited. Iceland before he started drawing the outlines of the famous Ring Trilogy. Thorsmork can only be reached with difficulty, hidden away between glaciers and trecherous rivers, but is still one of the most popular places in the country to visit. The film about Thorsmörk shows it’s beauty and lure. From bird’s eye view you will experience an overall impression of a magical landscape; where the deep green of lush plants meets the blackness of the wide sands lined with silvery bands of untamed rivers flowing through it. And right above rise magnificent glacier covered mountains. Thorsmörk’s flora, fauna and geography is explained by a narrator, guiding the viewer through the magical landscape of one of nature’s unforgetteble beauty spots.

title: Þórsmörk - The Hidden Valley of Thor

title: Þórsmörk - Í skjóli jökla

overview: Een adembenemend mooie vallei tussen drie gletsjers, waaronder Eyjafjallajökull. Het zou heel goed de inspiratie voor Tolkien kunnen zijn geweest tijdens zijn bezoek. IJsland voordat hij de contouren van de beroemde Ringtrilogie begon te tekenen. Thorsmork is slechts moeilijk te bereiken, verscholen tussen gletsjers en gevaarlijke rivieren, maar is nog steeds een van de meest populaire plekken in het land om te bezoeken. De film over Thorsmörk toont zijn schoonheid en aantrekkingskracht. Vanuit vogelperspectief ervaar je een totaalindruk van een magisch landschap; waar het diepe groen van weelderige planten de zwartheid van het brede zand ontmoet, omzoomd door zilverkleurige banden van ongetemde rivieren die er doorheen stromen. En vlak daarboven rijzen prachtige, met gletsjers bedekte bergen op. De flora, fauna en geografie van Thorsmörk worden uitgelegd door een verteller, die de kijker door het magische landschap van een van de onvergetelijke schoonheidsplekken van de natuur leidt.

original_title: Þórsmörk - Í skjóli jökla


title: Wuzzarr

overview: A story of a transvestite in Los Angeles.

title: Wuzzarr

original_title: Wuzzarr


title: A Midsummer´s Journey - A view of Iceland

job: Assistant Director

job: Executive Producer

job: Line Producer

original_title: Undir björtum himni


title: Stríðsárin köldu: Norska skíðaherdeildin á Íslandi og Jan Mayen

job: Camera Operator


title: Skúmurinn

title: Skúmurinn

original_title: Skúmurinn


title: Siggi Valli on a Motorcycle

title: Siggi Valli on a Motorcycle

original_title: Siggi Valli á mótorhjóli


title: Next Stop North Pole

overview: In August 1997, British rock band Blur launched what is probably the most astonishing and exotic rock'n'roll tour of all times, called Next Stop North Pole. They where to play for Nordic nations not at all used to concerts by the most popular band of that time.  See Iceland, The Faroe Islands and Greenland through the eyes of Blur.

title: Next Stop North Pole

original_title: Next Stop North Pole


title: Mezzoforte

overview: Five Icelandic boys formed a jazz-rock and fusion band called Mezzoforte. Soon they made their hit single "Garden Party" and ahead were days of adventures, travelling and big city lights.

title: Mezzoforte

original_title: Mezzoforte


title: Little Brother in the North

overview: In July we fallow puffin catchers going on small boats to uninhabited rocky islands where they catch the flying birds into nets. This hunt is very dangerous as the men have to operate from narrow ledges in cliffs high above the surfing ocean.  In August we see another side of the puffin/man relationship, as the children lovingly collect helpless puffin chicks from streets and alleys and keep them in cardboard boxes at their homes for the night until the can help them to the sea in the morning.

title: Little Brother in the North

title: Litli bróðir í norðri

overview: In juli volgen we papegaai duikerjagers die in kleine bootjes naar onbewoonde rotsachtige eilanden varen om de vliegende vogels in netten te vangen. Deze jacht is erg gevaarlijk, omdat de mannen vanaf smalle richels in kliffen hoog boven de branding van de oceaan moeten opereren. In augustus zien we een andere kant van de relatie tussen papegaaiduiker en mens, wanneer kinderen liefdevol hulpeloze papegaaiduikerkuikens van straat en steegjes verzamelen en ze 's nachts in kartonnen dozen in hun huis bewaren, totdat ze ze 's ochtends naar zee kunnen brengen.

original_title: Litli bróðir í norðri


title: A DOGumentary

overview: A very informative and rare documentary about training of rescue dogs. Not to be missed by any dog lover or dog owner who is keen to train.

title: A DOGumentary

original_title: Leitarhundar


title: Give Us This Day

type: Backdrop

overview: This one winter's day encapsulates a thousand years fishing and seamanship in Iceland. We gain an insight into an inner and outer world, where manual labour, man's beliefs in nature, Christianity, superstition and even magic are interwoven.  We are questioned if we could imagine how this world of the rowing boat crew, wich reflects the ancient class-divided society, really looked like? How did they percive the nature around them, their God in this nature, it's unstable weather conditions, it's harshness when they go to sea to harvest its riches to make it possible for themselves as well as their nation to keep on living on the edge of the habitable world? Here we are face to face with the very foundation of fishing nation's culture.

title: Give Us This Day

title: Íslands þúsund ár

overview: Kvikmynd þessi fjallar um einn dag í lífi og starfi árabátasjómanna á vetrarvertíð fyrir tíma tæknialdar. Þessi eini dagur endurspeglar sjósókn Íslendinga í þau þúsund ár, sem árabátaöld var við lýði á Íslandi. Gefin er innsýn í veröld og hugarheim, sem íslensk menning er að stórum hluta sprottin upp úr, þar sem blandast saman náttúrutrú, kristindómur, hjátrú og stundum galdur.

original_title: Íslands þúsund ár


title: Icelandic Sounds

overview: Árni Egilsson is considered to be among the finest double bass players in the world. Jón Páll a guitarist and a natural born talent. Skúli Sverrisson, an electric bass player, who at the age of 30 has gained recognition as one of New York's finerst young talents.  This creative documentary in three parts is shot on location in California and New York. Fine cinematography an those three strong individuals result in a unique and entertaining television program.

title: Icelandic Sounds

original_title: Icelandic Sounds


title: Meðal fiska og fólks

title: Meðal fiska og fólks

original_title: Meðal fiska og fólks


title: Hringur

title: Hringur

original_title: Hringur


title: A Silent Explosion

overview: Magnús' life has been colourful, mostly because he is never satisfied with the status quo. In his art he is constantly changing and his interest lies in every field of art. To his mind being an artist is an inner need or compulsion and does not necessarily require being talented at drawing.  "Drawing has hardly anything to do with art, no more than anything else. It is more important for að so-called artist to know how to manipulate a microphone like this one".

title: A Silent Explosion

job: Sound Engineer

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

original_title: Hljóðlát sprenging


title: Fathers on Paternity Leave

overview: What happens to an ordinary Icelandic family when the father of a new-born baby gets the opportunity to stay at home with the baby for three months? Will the relationship between father and wife better, and will the distribution of household chores be any different? And what has the employer and the colleagues at work to say about this arrangement? Those questions are among other that are asked in the documentary Fathers in paternity leave. We fallow one of the fathers through his paternity leave, talk to some others and interview, among others, a sociologist and a psychologist who are experts on the matter.

title: Fathers on Paternity Leave

original_title: Feður í fæðingarorlofi


title: Engel Lund (1900-1996) Singer of World Folk Songs

overview: A film about the mezzo-soprano Engel Lund.


title: The Electrical Farmer

overview: A documentary about the efforts of Björn Runólfsson to bring electricity to the countryside of Iceland.

title: The Electrical Farmer

original_title: Það kom svolítið rafmagn


title: Starfsemi nútímaþjóðfélags - verðlaunamynd


title: Iceland - On the Outside!

overview: Close to the Artic Circle, Iceland offers exotic landscape and eccentric people. We offer a highly entertaining sports-program focusing on fun, human interest and extreme situation. The programs are youth oriented with fast edits and loads of music. We will fallow athletes from different types of actionsports as the perform exciting acts with amazing landscapes from Iceland as backdrops. It looks scary to us but for them it's just fun!  Why do they do it and what kind of a kick do the get out of it? We cover snowboarding on several locations in Iceland, mostly on glaciers which are very extreme locations. River rafting or kayaking down powerful rivers originating from melting glaciers is another adventure. Among other adventures will be downhill mountain biking, ice climbing, cave-diving, surfing and similar extreme sports. We find those people fascinating and the camera loves them for what they do!

title: Iceland - On the Outside!

title: Iceland - On the Outside!

overview: Dicht bij de poolcirkel biedt IJsland een exotisch landschap en excentrieke mensen. We bieden een zeer vermakelijk sportprogramma waarbij de nadruk ligt op plezier, menselijke interesse en extreme situaties. De programma's zijn jeugdgericht met snelle montages en veel muziek. We zullen atleten uit verschillende soorten actiesporten in de gaten houden terwijl ze spannende acts uitvoeren met prachtige IJslandse landschappen als achtergrond. Voor ons lijkt het eng, maar voor hen is het gewoon leuk! Waarom doen ze het en wat voor kick levert het op? We behandelen snowboarden op verschillende locaties in IJsland, meestal op gletsjers die zeer extreme locaties zijn. Raften op de rivier of kajakken op krachtige rivieren die hun oorsprong vinden in smeltende gletsjers is een ander avontuur. Onder andere avonturen zijn downhill mountainbiken, ijsklimmen, grotduiken, surfen en soortgelijke extreme sporten. Wij vinden die mensen fascinerend en de camera houdt van ze voor wat ze doen!

original_title: Iceland - On the Outside!


title: Í moldinni heima

title: Í moldinni heima

original_title: Í moldinni heima


title: Hanna from Gjögri

title: Hanna from Gjögri

original_title: Hanna frá Gjögri


title: The Lake Between the Continents

overview: Thingvellir actually means “Parliament Grounds”. But extensive scientific research has shown that the Thingvellir area is one of the wonders of the world and is indeed unique. The American plate and the European plate separate exactly at Thingvellir so the area and Lake Thingvallavatn are positioned between two continents. This is shown in detailed video graphic as well as in extensive aerial and close-up shots of the area. At Thingvellir we are standing on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – we can see the ground split, Thingvellir sink and Lake Thingvallavatn grow. In flora and fauna – here is the meeting place of the East and the West. Lake Thingvallavatn is a very young – no more than 10,000 years old. However, four varieties af Arctic Char have evolved in it, and that is a world wonder. The lake is extremely clear which makes the underwater pictures of the Arctic char in their natural habitat very real.

title: The Lake Between the Continents

original_title: Þingvallavatn á mörkum austurs og vesturs


title: Problem

title: Problem

original_title: Vandamál


title: Vald

title: Vald

original_title: Vald


title: Undir

title: Undir

original_title: Undir


title: Thank You Mother

overview: 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 to the North Pole, Las Vegas and Bucharest. It's the same journey — called life.

title: Thank You Mother

original_title: Takk, mamma mín


title: Roots

title: Roots

original_title: Rætur


title: Another Look at Reykjavik

overview: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson who put the Icelandic film industry on the world map in the seventies with films set in modern Iceland and the Viking age - here takes on the documentary form in a way only a feature film director could. Giving his imagination full scope, the director creates image of an alternative future - presents a diffrent view of the capital, Reykjavik, and questions accepted ideas about his country, Iceland.

title: Another Look at Reykjavik

job: Graphic Designer

department: Art

original_title: Reykjavík í öðru ljósi


title: Nú er rafmagn hingað sótt

title: Nú er rafmagn hingað sótt

original_title: Nú er rafmagn hingað sótt


title: A Brass Band and a Bridge

overview: Over the course of a year, we watch the bridge builder Haukur Karlsson and the musician Pál Pamphichler Pálsson at work, including the Eyjafjöll region on the south coast, Hvalfjörður and Skeiðarársandur, and Páll rehearsing the Reykjavík Brass Band for its anniversary concert, conducting the Icelandic Opera Orchestra in Der Fledermaus and having a work of his performed at a large open-air concert in Austria. The film suggests that all there certains themes common to all work, and that these men's occupations are not as different as they may seem to be at first glance.

title: A Brass Band and a Bridge

original_title: Lúðrasveit og brú


title: Lokinhamrar

title: Lokinhamrar

original_title: Lokinhamrar


title: Kyrr

title: Kyrr

original_title: Kyrr


title: Hræsni

title: Hræsni

original_title: Hræsni


title: Friður

title: Friður

original_title: Friður


title: The Violin Maker

overview: The film follows the construction of a violin and the communication between the violin maker Hans Jóhannsson and the violinist Sandrine Cantoreggi at Hans' workshop in Luxembourg.

title: The Violin Maker

original_title: Fiðlusmiðurinn


title: ERRÓ - North - South - East - West

overview: A collage-like film that mixes interviews with painter Erró and his collaborators, family and friends with visuals of his paintings and extracts from experimental films made in the sixties with Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Carolee Scheemann, Christo, Matta and Adami. Also including many of the luminaries of twentieth century art, the film takes us from Paris and New York to the appropriately surrealistic landscapes of Erró's native Iceland.

title: ERRÓ - North - South - East - West

title: ERRÓ - norður -suður- austur- vestur

overview: Een collage-achtige film die interviews met schilder Erró en zijn medewerkers, familie en vrienden combineert met beelden van zijn schilderijen en fragmenten uit experimentele films gemaakt in de jaren zestig met Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Carolee Scheemann, Christo, Matta en Adami. De film bevat ook veel van de beroemdheden uit de twintigste-eeuwse kunst en neemt ons mee van Parijs en New York naar de toepasselijk surrealistische landschappen van Erró's geboorteland IJsland.

job: Co-Producer

original_title: ERRÓ - norður -suður- austur- vestur


title: Varði Goes on Tour

title: Varði Goes on Tour

original_title: Varði fer á vertíð


title: Mér líkar ekki malbikið

title: Mér líkar ekki malbikið

original_title: Mér líkar ekki malbikið


title: Passio: A Painter's Psalm of Colours

overview: This film is about the painter Sveinn Björnsson (1925-1997), and his struggles to perfect his art. Following a wide-ranging exhibition at the Kjarvalsstaðir Art Gallery in 1989, he has become tired of the fantasy style which he had been developing for thirty years. What needed to happen in order for him to create something new? What sacrifices would it involve? This film is about that struggle experienced by creative artists. The film is not a biography, or a learned review of the painter's style, but it does show a side of the man which very few see. One evening, he feels he is not alone in his studio; it feels as if some being is there who wants to help him.

title: Passio: A Painter's Psalm of Colours

title: Málarinn og sálmurinn hans um litinn

overview: Deze film gaat over de schilder Sveinn Björnsson (1925-1997) en zijn strijd om zijn kunst te perfectioneren. Na een omvangrijke tentoonstelling in de Kjarvalsstaðir Art Gallery in 1989 is hij de fantasiestijl die hij dertig jaar lang had ontwikkeld, beu. Wat moest er gebeuren voordat hij iets nieuws kon creëren? Welke offers zou dat met zich meebrengen? Deze film gaat over die strijd die creatieve kunstenaars ervaren. De film is geen biografie of een geleerde recensie van de stijl van de schilder, maar laat wel een kant van de man zien die maar weinigen zien. Op een avond voelt hij dat hij niet alleen is in zijn atelier; het voelt alsof er een wezen is dat hem wil helpen.

job: Gaffer

department: Lighting

job: Sound Editor

job: Title Designer

original_title: Málarinn og sálmurinn hans um litinn


title: Maður eigi einhamur

title: Maður eigi einhamur

job: Screenplay

job: Director

original_title: Maður eigi einhamur


title: Braggabúar

overview: This is a documentary about the people living in barracks in Reykjavik from the year 1940 till 1970. This is an important chapter in Reykjavik history and for the national as whole. The Icelandic community turned from the farm life to a urban city in a very short period of time and these barrack communities were an example about this tremendous growth in the city. Here we see the barracks put in a perspective as a historic event that depicts the various livelihood of people in the growing city. We follow people that actually lived in these barracks and hear what they have to say and experienced in these times.

title: Braggabúar

job: Producer

job: Director of Photography

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Braggabúar


title: Varði Goes Europe

overview: Varði goes to Europe is an independent sequel to Varði Goes on Tour. This time Varði heads to mainland Europe with his guitar to become a street artist.

title: Varði Goes Europe

title: Varði Goes Europe

overview: Á ferðalagi sínu kynnist hann menningu götusöngvara og hittir margar óborganlegar persónur, s.s. þungarokkstrúbadorinn Paul frá Laos, skoska nýnasistann Crazy Steve og írska farandsöngvarann Leo Gillespie sem lifað hefur á götutónlist í um fjörutíu ár. Þegar líður á ferðalagið kynnist Varði hinum dökku hliðum götusöngvaralífsins og upplifir það hvernig yfirvöldin á sumum stöðum eru að ganga af menningunni dauðri.

job: Sound

job: Music

job: Editor

original_title: Varði Goes Europe


title: Discourse on Films

overview: Discourse on Films is a documentary treating a new field of Icelandic culture, that is film history.  Thorgeir Thorgeirson - a recipient of the honorary Edda (Award of The Icelandic Film Academy) "for his contribution to film production and general film culture in Iceland" comments on trends and tendencies of the local film industry, from the so called pioneers - as the first semi professional amateurs generously have been named - up to the more recent production of feature films. With professional skill and a clear dissident's mind Torgeirson is able not only to analyze Icelandic film history but also to sketch up a friendly-ironical picture of the “dress up society" in general.

title: Discourse on Films

character: Interviewer

original_title: Samræða um kvikmyndir


title: Noi, Pam and their men

overview: A documentary by Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir focusing on two Thai women who originally came to Iceland to work in the fisheries but later settled with two Icelanders in the Öxarfjördur-region in the North-East of Iceland, one of them a shop-keeper and the other a sheep-farmer. The film not only shows daily life in rural Iceland near the Polar Circle but also the couples' trip to Thailand where life and surroundings are dramatically different to Öxarfjördur.

title: Noi, Pam and their men

title: Noi, Pam og mennirnir þeirra

original_title: Noi, Pam og mennirnir þeirra


title: Possibihilities

overview: Gudmundsson has spent most of his life outside Iceland after he first moved to the Netherlands in 1963. He has homes and studios in Amsterdam, Reykjavík and Malmo, and in the past few years in Xiamen and Beijing in China. Gudmundsson has displayed his works in most countries in Europe and major public works of sculpture have been commissioned from him in the Nordic countries and in central Europe.

title: Possibihilities

original_title: Möhöguleikar


title: Ljós heimsins

title: Ljós heimsins

original_title: Ljós heimsins


title: Searching for Rajeev

overview: Searching for Rajeev is a documentary film about an Icelandic girl who decides to go to India in the hope of finding an Indian freind of her´s who used to live in Iceland. Ten years have passed since he left Iceland and Birta has very little information about where he lives.

title: Searching for Rajeev

original_title: Leitin að Rajeev


title: The Ice Age Horse

title: The Ice Age Horse

original_title: Ísaldarhesturinn


title: Who Hangs the Laundry?

title: Who Hangs the Laundry?

original_title: Hver hengir upp þvottinn?


title: Eldborg - Sönn íslensk útihátíð

overview: A documentary about the Eldborg music festival

title: Eldborg - Sönn íslensk útihátíð

original_title: Eldborg - Sönn íslensk útihátíð


title: Við byggjum hús

title: Við byggjum hús

original_title: Við byggjum hús


title: Surtsey - The Black Island

overview: An unexpected submarine eruption south of Iceland created an island, Surtsey, and changed our perception of the Earth. The Black Island is the epic Saga of Surtsey. The film depicts the evolution of life and our fascination and fear of the world´s untamed and still unknown forces. Using unique archive material and new films from visits to the Black Island.

title: Surtsey - The Black Island

title: Surtsey - en vulkanö blir till

overview: Följ med till Surtsey, en vulkanö utanför Islands sydkust. Den bildades ur ett vulkanutbrott mellan 1963 och 1967. Det finns ett rikt växt- och djurliv på ön. Sedan 1964 har forskare noga följt naturens framfart på den skyddade ön.

original_title: Surtsey - eyjan svarta


title: The Protester

title: The Protester

title: Mótmælandi Íslands

overview: Myndin fjallar um Helga Hóseasson, sem var þekktur fyrir að mótmæla ríkisvaldi og þjóðkirkjunni á Íslandi. Helgi var mjög ákveðinn í baráttu sinni fyrir trúfrelsi og krafðist þess að vera skráður úr þjóðkirkjunni. Myndin hefur fengið lof fyrir að varpa ljósi á persónulega sögu Helga, sem þótti hálfgerður furðufugl, en eftir sýningar myndarinnar í kvikmyndahúsum og sjónvarpi jókst samúð almennings með honum. Helgi hafði ekki haft sigur í baráttu sinni þegar hann lést árið 2009.

job: Color Grading

job: Production Manager

job: Still Photographer

original_title: Mótmælandi Íslands


title: Maðurinn sem gatar jökla

title: Maðurinn sem gatar jökla

original_title: Maðurinn sem gatar jökla


title: I Live

title: I Live

job: Camera Operator

original_title: Ég lifi


title: Bestu árin

title: Bestu árin

original_title: Bestu árin


title: Three Women

title: Three Women

original_title: Þrjár konur


title: World of Solitude

overview: This documentary is an invitation to an adventurous travel about the central highlands of Iceland within and surrounding the Vatnajökull Galcier - Europes larget icecap. A travel begins at the surface of the hot spot under Vatnajökull, where fire and ice go hand in hand.

title: World of Solitude

original_title: World of Solitude


title: Svava

overview: 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 important milestone in Icelandic society. In this documentary highly acclaimed authors talk about Svavas writings and tell us more about her important work and what kind of an impact she had.

title: Svava

original_title: Svava


title: Rockville

title: Rockville

original_title: Rockville


title: Punk in Iceland

overview: In 1978 the world was on the brink of nuclear war and cold war foes were everywhere. A new kind of revolutionary music had emerged in 1976 but was receeding everywhere except in Iceland that had not yet seen punk rock. There you had Russian commie ghosts, nuclear foes, currency restrictions, beer was illegal and the TV was b/w six days a week. The population was trying to spend every penny as fast as they could because of inflation. Then in 1978 The Stranglers held a concert in remote Iceland and the punk rock bomb exploded in the face of the disco freaks.

title: Punk in Iceland

original_title: Pönkið og Fræbbblarnir


title: Proximitas

title: Proximitas

job: Production Assistant

job: Sound Engineer

original_title: Proximitas


title: Love Is in the Air

overview: In September 2003, thirteen people from Iceland set out for an adventure. Their goal was to stage their successful, Icelandic production of Romeo and Juliet in the historically renowned Young Vic Theatre in London. The group hijacks two floors of the shady Albany hotel for three months and then begin tireless rehearsals for the premiere. But life in London doesn’t come easy. Trouble on the stage and despair backstage is documented as we follow the group through the good times and the bad.  Will this ambitious theatre group from a small, volcanic island in the North manage the impossible and succeed in the big world? Or will they be forced to return home with their tails between their legs? Love is in the Air is an incredible story of achieving the impossible through perseverance and courage.

title: Love Is in the Air

title: Love Is in the Air

overview: In september 2003 gingen dertien IJslanders op avontuur. Hun doel was om hun succesvolle, IJslandse productie van Romeo en Julia op te voeren in het historisch vermaarde Young Vic Theatre in Londen. De groep kaapt drie maanden lang twee verdiepingen van het schaduwrijke hotel in Albany en begint dan onvermoeibaar te repeteren voor de première. Maar het leven in Londen is niet gemakkelijk. Problemen op het podium en wanhoop backstage worden gedocumenteerd terwijl we de groep door goede en slechte tijden volgen. Zal deze ambitieuze theatergroep van een klein, vulkanisch eiland in het Noorden het onmogelijke voor elkaar krijgen en slagen in de grote wereld? Of zullen ze gedwongen worden om met de staart tussen de benen naar huis terug te keren? Love is in the Air is een ongelooflijk verhaal over het bereiken van het onmogelijke door doorzettingsvermogen en moed.

original_title: Love Is in the Air


title: The Chicken Commander

overview: 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 (Kabul Airport). At the centre is the garrison commander Halli, who was transformed from an air-traffic controller in Reykjavik to a high ranking officer in a NATO army. The commander gave unprecedented and uncensored access to his garrison and the close to 2000 multinational troops stationed in the war torn country of Afghanistan. Through the often naïve eyes of the Icelandic men we experience the environment, both inside the camp and outside and get to know their emotions and sometimes humorous vision towards their own experience.

title: The Chicken Commander

original_title: Íslenska sveitin


title: Forged Paintings in Real Icelandic Landscapes

overview: This is a tale of forged paintings. Nothing could be more ordinary. Only the action takes place in Iceland, a country with a population of 300.000, where everybody is cousin with everybody else and has been for generations. The minor incident suddenly becomes a major affair.

title: Í þessu máli...

overview: Dit is een verhaal over vervalste schilderijen. Niets is gewoner. Alleen de actie vindt plaats in IJsland, een land met 300.000 inwoners, waar iedereen al generaties lang neef is van iedereen. Het kleine incident wordt plotseling een grote aangelegenheid.

job: Sound Recordist

original_title: Í þessu máli...


title: Í Austurdal

title: Í Austurdal

original_title: Í Austurdal


title: Who is Barði?

overview: A documentary following the life of Barði Jóhannsson and his band Bang Gang while they record their new album, but not everything is at seems to be.

title: Who is Barði?

job: Assistant Editor

job: Second Unit Director of Photography

job: Assistant Camera

original_title: Hver er Barði?


title: Running With the Herd

overview: 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 characters – all of them horses. Stretching the limits of the nature documentary has been Gudnason´s forte and his earlier film, Woodmouse: Life of the Run, has been shown around the world. Here he takes us into the world of horses running wild in the stark but majestic highlands of Iceland. Without humanising the animals in any way, the film tells a story full of drama and emotion, character, danger, and resolve.

title: Running With the Herd

job: Director

job: Screenplay

job: Assistant Production Manager

original_title: Hestasaga


title: Heimur kuldans

title: Heimur kuldans

job: Producer

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Heimur kuldans


title: Gudbergur Bergsson - Writer with a Camera

overview: Guðbergur Bergsson is an Icelandic writer born in Grindavík on 16 October 1932. He went to the University of Iceland for his Teaching degree and then went for further study in literature at the University of Barcelona. He is one of the leading translators of Spanish works in Iceland. His first book came out in 1961. He has had twenty books in all including poetry and children's literature. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize twice. In 2004, he won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the 'little Nobel'.  In the film we see Bergssons super-8 films from Francos Spain and Lisboa during the revolution in 1974. Even his life as a writer and critic of the icelandic society.


title: Róska

overview: A documentary about the enigmatic Icelandic filmdirector Róska

title: Róska

job: Sound

job: Special Effects

department: Crew

original_title: Róska


title: Ragnar í Smára

title: Ragnar í Smára

job: Editor

job: Makeup & Hair

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Music

job: Color Grading

job: Assistant Director

original_title: Ragnar í Smára


title: Songbirds

overview: The film tells the story of the charming, ninety-three year old lady Gudny, who is staying in the nursing home of Hrafnista in Hafnarfjördur, Iceland. She tells tales of her pet rat from her home region in eastern Iceland, paints, sings in the choir, plans to stage a theatrical sketch and play the leading role. We also meet Sigurdur Olafsson, who claims to be in Paradise, and Klara Tryggvason, who gets her visits in mail and by phone; most of her children are living abroad. We visit Leifur Eiriksson, who changes making his bed into a ritual of physical exercise. Gudny has only learnt the Lord's Prayer and the Bible Stories, but she knows how to tell a good story and radiates the wisdom of the ages. "Why can't we talks about death?", she says. "My grandchildren ask: Grandma, are you sure you'll be with God?" "Yes, quite sure".

title: Songbirds

original_title: Ómur af söng


title: Líf fyrir listina eina

title: Líf fyrir listina eina

job: Line Producer

original_title: Líf fyrir listina eina


title: The Choir

overview: Kórinn is a documentary about the choir group Léttsveit Reykjavíkur which tally's up to 120 women. Being in a choir has been a tradition for many Icelanders in many years and here we get the chance so see how and why the choir group works so well together. We get to see positive emotions but also the negative ones. We get to know that friendships, that lasts forever, are created in this group and we also get to know the reason why people are driven to join a bunch of strangers to sing together.

title: The Choir

original_title: Kórinn


title: Klink & Bank

title: Klink & Bank

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

job: Sound Designer

job: Production Manager

original_title: Klink & Bank


title: Icelanders in Dakota

title: Icelanders in Dakota

original_title: Íslendingarnir í Dakóta


title: How Do You Like Iceland?

overview: How do you like Iceland? is a documentary about foreigners' perception of Icelanders. The film is mainly based on interviews with 37 foreigners from 9 countries who come from the world of art, sport, business and politics. Many humorous questions and interesting topics arise when the Icelandic nation is examined through the eye of the foreigner: Do foreigners think of Reykjavík as Bangkok of the north? Are the Icelanders an isolated and inbred nation? Or rather special and like no other? Is Icelandic inventiveness fit for export? Is the "pure and unspoiled" nation itself environmentally friendly?

title: How Do You Like Iceland?

character: Self

job: Production Assistant

job: Sound Editor

original_title: How Do You Like Iceland?


title: Frozen Paradise

overview: A filmmaker joins a group of expert kayakers on a kayaking trip in the ice filled fiords of East Greenland. The group visit a remote inuit village, giving an insight into the habits of people in a magnificent country where, fonunately, the pace and stress of the Western world is still absent.

title: Frozen Paradise

job: Director

job: Screenplay

original_title: Frosin paradís


title: Liverpool of the North

overview: In the late fifties Iceland was isolated and backwards. Industrialisation had really just begun and the country was taking it’s first steps towards the ultra-modern society we know today. The US military set up a base next to the sleepy fishing village of Keflavik on the south coast turning everything on it’s head. The Americans outnumbered the locals three to one. Culturally it was as if a UFO had landed. The young people were more open to cultural influences than the older generation and this triggered a rock and roll explosion which then swept the rest of the country. It was the birth of Icelandic teenage culture. Because of Iceland’s location right between America and Europe the cultural influences mixed to produce an unique blend.

title: Liverpool of the North

job: Producer

job: Co-Producer

job: Title Designer

original_title: Bítlabærinn Keflavík


title: Úti í mýri

title: Úti í mýri

job: Director of Photography

job: Sound

job: Sound Engineer

original_title: Úti í mýri


title: The Sofa Generation

overview: The filmmakers interview members of different activist organizations and discuss basic questions regarding activism and its role in a democratic society. Each organization is given the chance to voice their opinions and the audience is left to consider and critique their stands on key issues, including Amnesty International’s worldwide campaign for human rights and the local resistance to the damming of the Icelandic highlands.

title: The Sofa Generation

job: Graphic Designer

job: Camera Operator

job: Editor

original_title: Sófakynslóðin


title: Icelandic Churchmusic

title: Icelandic Churchmusic

job: Costume Design

original_title: Kirkjutónlist á Íslandi


title: Ginklofinn

title: Ginklofinn

job: Music

original_title: Ginklofinn


title: Act Normal

overview: Robert T. Edison was born and raised in Nottingham, England. When he was fourteen years old he began to practice Buddhism. Eighteen years old he became a monk and went to Thailand where, for a decade, he spent his time in monasteries around the country. He became the first Buddhist monk in Iceland when he moved here in 1994 and founded a Buddhist sect. Five years later Robert decided to "derobe" and get married. After sixteen years of celibacy Robert had to deal with being "normal" - getting employment, paying his bills and dealing with the needs of his partner. After four years in "the real world" Robert travelled back to Thailand to become a monk again. Act Normal is filmed from 1994 to 2006 and is a unique exploration of one man´s twelve-year search for some kind of love.

title: Act Normal

title: Act Normal

overview: Robert T. Edison werd geboren en groeide op in Nottingham, Engeland. Op veertienjarige leeftijd begon hij het boeddhisme te beoefenen. Op achttienjarige leeftijd werd hij monnik en vertrok naar Thailand, waar hij tien jaar lang in verschillende kloosters verbleef. Hij werd de eerste boeddhistische monnik in IJsland toen hij daar in 1994 naartoe verhuisde en een boeddhistische sekte oprichtte. Vijf jaar later besloot Robert zijn monniks gewaad af te leggen en te trouwen. Na zestien jaar celibaat moest Robert zich aanpassen aan het 'normale' leven: werk zoeken, zijn rekeningen betalen en voor zijn partner zorgen. Na vier jaar in 'de echte wereld' reisde Robert terug naar Thailand om opnieuw monnik te worden. Act Normal is gefilmd tussen 1994 en 2006 en is een unieke verkenning van de twaalf jaar durende zoektocht van één man naar een vorm van liefde.

job: Art Direction

job: Executive Producer

job: Location Manager

job: Makeup & Hair

job: Production Design

job: Prop Designer

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Act Normal


title: Who Are Your Next of Kin?

overview: There is a genealogist in every Icelander. “Hverra manna ert thú? – Who are your kin?” is the favourite question among Icelandic people when they meet for the first time. The person questioned then names the family members of his clan, upon which the person asking is sure to know his opposite. The two of them are inevitably related, at the very least seven or eight generations back. Studying family history and family trees has always been something of a national sport in Iceland, much more popular than in other countries. This documentary film examines the various aspects and effects of family connections on Iceland and accompanies the filmmaker on his quest for his own Icelandic roots.

title: Who Are Your Next of Kin?

title: Who Are Your Next of Kin?

overview: In elke IJslander schuilt een genealoog. “Hverra manna ert thú? – Wie zijn jouw verwanten? is de favoriete vraag onder IJslanders als ze elkaar voor het eerst ontmoeten. De ondervraagde noemt vervolgens de familieleden van zijn clan, waarbij de vragende persoon zeker weet wat zijn tegendeel is. De twee zijn onvermijdelijk verwant, op zijn minst zeven of acht generaties terug. Het bestuderen van familiegeschiedenis en stambomen is in IJsland altijd een soort nationale sport geweest, veel populairder dan in andere landen. Deze documentaire onderzoekt de verschillende aspecten en effecten van familiebanden op IJsland en begeleidt de filmmaker op zijn zoektocht naar zijn eigen IJslandse roots.

job: Director

job: Color Grading

job: Screenplay

job: Producer

job: Production Manager

original_title: Who Are Your Next of Kin?


title: Spóinn var að vella

title: Spóinn var að vella

job: Director of Photography

job: Production Assistant

job: Sound Editor

original_title: Spóinn var að vella


title: Shanghaiing Days

overview: The logbook of a few Icelandic trawler-men in 1947-1970. It was dangerous to go on a drinking spree in those days — the Icelandic trawlers were short of crew, so skippers went back to the old way of manning their ships. Man-hunting, or 'Shanghaiing' was the name of the game.

title: Shanghaiing Days

job: Editor

job: Sound

original_title: Sjanghæjað til sjós


title: Unchained Beauty

overview: Documentary about an unusual beauty contest in the desolate area of Iceland’s West Fjords where wrinkles and cellulite are a plus.

title: Unchained Beauty

original_title: Óbeisluð fegurð


title: Lystin að lifa

title: Lystin að lifa

job: Music

original_title: Lystin að lifa


title: The Ice Climber

overview: The Ice Climber is a documentary about Gudmundur Hafsteinn, a 10 year old Icelandic boy, who is a climber by nature. He practices climbing at an in-door climbing house. As his ability in climbing develops, his family takes him on a journey where he gets to try climbing a real cliff. This has been the boys dream and the purpose of his climbing practice. The journey finally brings him to a wall of ice where the young boy meets his ultimate challenge. Can he do it?

title: The Ice Climber

job: Co-Producer

job: Sound Engineer

original_title: Ísklifrarinn


title: Hver var Jónas?

overview: A documentary about the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson

title: Hver var Jónas?

title: Hver var Jónas?

overview: Een documentaire over de IJslandse dichter Jónas Hallgrímsson

job: Costume Design

job: Hair Designer

job: Makeup & Hair

job: Special Effects

original_title: Hver var Jónas?


title: Húsið á Eyrarbakka

title: Húsið á Eyrarbakka

job: Line Producer

job: Director

original_title: Húsið á Eyrarbakka


title: New Life Beginning

title: New Life Beginning

job: Screenplay

original_title: Annað líf Ástþórs


title: I Think She’s a Musungu

overview: I think she’s a Musungu is a documentary about 8 years old Erna Kanema. She lives in Reykjavik with her Icelandic mother, Zambian father and little sister. She takes her Icelandic grandmother and uncle’s family on an adventurous trip to Zambia to meet her relatives there. Erna Kanema reflects on her identity as a white, black or brown girl.

title: I Think She’s a Musungu

job: Executive Producer

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

original_title: Afríkan okkar


title: Wonders of Water

overview: Water is one of the most amazing substances on earth. It contradicts almost all of the rules of physics and chemistry. For instance, it has the unique characteristic of expanding and growing lighter when it becomes solid. All other substances grow heavier upon turning solid and contract as the temperature decreases. This is what causes ice to float on top of water, instead of collecting on the bottom, which makes all the difference for aquatic life and in fact for all life on earth. In addition, water has the highest specific heat of any substance, which makes it a superb heat reservoir and heat equaliser. Without water, the earth would be a desert because of fluctuations in heat.

title: Wonders of Water

job: Camera Operator

job: Director of Photography

job: Producer

job: Graphic Designer

original_title: Undur vatnsins


title: And Rolling

title: And Rolling

original_title: Teipið gengur


title: The Word Music: Jorunn Vidar

title: The Word Music: Jorunn Vidar

job: Sound Editor

job: Production Manager

job: Editor

job: Painter

job: Animation

department: Visual Effects

original_title: Orðið tónlist: Jórunn Viðar


title: Women in Red Stockings

overview: This documentary tells the story of the Icelandic Red-stocking movement in the seventies.

title: Women in Red Stockings

job: Music

job: Sound Engineer

original_title: Konur á rauðum sokkum


title: Ketill

overview: The protagonist Ketill Larsen is a 71-year-old man living in a desolate house on a hill with a view of a shopping mall on the outskirts of Reykjavik. Each day, with a bag filled with his own works, he hitchhikes to the city center where he writes poems and makes paintings (at least 15 a day) in his favorite cafes. As a retired actor he has a number of stories to tell which he stores using a portable tape recorder, and during Christmas time he dresses as Santa Claus. Though widely known in Iceland, Ketill remains a mysterious figure and an exception to the social norm. Joseph Marzolla and Tomas Lemarquis have created a film where the reality and the fantastical world of Ketill´s creations meet in an unforgettable journey. Ketill is a remarkable personality, who has a number of stories to tell and unusual experiences to share. He is a true artist, dedicated to his art and poetic in his everyday life.

title: Ketill

job: Post-Production Manager

job: Co-Producer

job: Sound Designer

job: Title Designer

job: Art Direction

original_title: Ketill


title: The Great Northern Documentary

title: The Great Northern Documentary

job: Director

original_title: The Great Northern Documentary


title: Galdrakarlinn á Súganda

title: Galdrakarlinn á Súganda

original_title: Galdrakarlinn á Súganda


overview: From Oakland to Iceland: A Hip-Hop Homecoming is a documentary about Iceland native DJ Platurn, raised in California and his homecoming tour playing in Iceland where he has lived since the age of 7. The film explores his 3 week tour DJing for his native Icelanders, where he exhibits his talents as a scratch/trick DJ, among other things. DJ Platurn resides in Oakland, California.

overview: Een documentaire over de in IJsland geboren dj Platurn, opgegroeid in Californië en zijn homecoming tour in IJsland, waar hij al sinds zijn zevende woont. De film belicht zijn drie weken durende tour als dj voor zijn geboorteland IJsland, waar hij onder andere zijn talenten als scratch-/trick-dj laat zien. DJ Platurn woont in Oakland, Californië.

job: Screenplay

job: Camera Operator


title: Only a Birth

title: Only a Birth

job: Producer

job: Director of Photography

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

job: Assistant Editor

original_title: Einungis fæðing


title: Dieter Roth Puzzle

overview: Most of his working life after that was spent in Germany and Switzerland but Iceland remained a refuge, an inspiration, the home to his family and a second home to Dieter, whose legacy left a distinctive mark on the Icelandic and international art scenes. The director knew Dieter from early childhood and now embarks upon a journey to different parts of the world to gather pieces in his Dieter Roth Puzzle. What emerges is a colourful portrait of an exceptional person; one of the most singular and important artists of our time, as described by his family, many friends and colleagues.

title: Dieter Roth Puzzle

job: Production Manager

job: Graphic Designer

job: Sound Recordist

job: Editor

job: Color Grading

job: Sound

original_title: Dieter Roth Puzzle


title: The Bohemians

overview: For more than 100 years, The Bohemians have enjoyed their love of music. Some of them sing, some don't - but all of them enjoy a good company and good music.

title: The Bohemians

job: Executive Producer

original_title: The Bohemians


title: The Bird of Wisdom: The Raven

title: The Bird of Wisdom: The Raven

original_title: The Bird of Wisdom: The Raven


title: The Face of Cambodia

overview: The face of Cambodia is a documentary about the city Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat was lost for 700 years and is one of the Seven wonders of the World. The population of Angkor was around a million and the city covers more than a 400 square kilometer area.

title: The Face of Cambodia

job: Music

job: Sound Editor

job: Sound Post Supervisor

original_title: Andlit Kambodíu


title: Ama Dablam: Beyond the Void

overview: The expedition is lead by Simon Yates, known as “the man with the knife”, who became world famous when the film “Touching The Void” came out. The Ama Dablam expedition went through despite a serious accident on the planned route in 2006 when six climbers were killed in an avalanche. Ama Dablam is a film about two ordinary guys and their adventure with one of the most famous mountaineers of our times. It’s an adventure film for general audiences.

title: Ama Dablam: Beyond the Void

job: Director

job: Still Photographer

original_title: Ama Dablam: Handan tómsins


title: How to Win a Lost Game

overview: 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 with despair.  The boys tell their story from within, the story of how the light pushes the darkness out of the way, without self-pity or evasion. They have exhausted every venue. Therefore the true facts stand naked. Marvelous people. Fascinating characters.

title: How to Win a Lost Game

job: Co-Producer

job: Assistant Camera

original_title: Sigur í tapleik


title: That's What I Call Dance

overview: 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 several awards for her works.

title: That's What I Call Dance

job: Producer

job: Director of Photography

job: Camera Operator

job: Screenplay

original_title: Þetta kalla ég dans


title: Rajeev Revisited

overview: Rajeev Revisited is a documentary about Birta’s journey to India to attend a weeding of her childhood friend, Rajeev. 8 years have passed since their last meeting, when Birta tracked Rajeev down in India, and found him in poor circumstances. Since then, apparently lots of things have changed in their lives. With Rajeev´s “arranged wedding” as a story line the film reflects the great cultural difference the two friends live under today. Without a doubt, the Icelandic girl Birta sticks out among Hindus and elephants in this colorful wedding in south India. A sincere film about friendship that crosses the cultural difference between two continents.

title: Rajeev Revisited

job: Assistant Director

job: Production Assistant

original_title: Rajeev Revisited


title: The Word Music: Magnus Blondal Johannsson

overview: Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson is remembered as one of the pioneers of modern Icelandic music. The conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Magnúsar Blöndal took place in Reykjavík on August 9, 2004. Nine days later, he lapsed into a coma and died on January 1, 2005.

title: Orðið tónlist: Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson

overview: Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson wordt herinnerd als een van de pioniers van de moderne IJslandse muziek. Het gesprek tussen Hans Ulrich Obrist en Magnúsar Blöndal vond plaats in Reykjavík op 9 augustus 2004. Negen dagen later raakte hij in coma en stierf op 1 januari 2005.

character: Self - Interviewer

job: Editor

job: Animation

job: Painter

job: Production Manager

job: Sound Engineer


title: Mona Lisa & the Temple of the Whore

overview: An experimental documentary about the artist BBPrince as he tries to make a film that captures the atmosphere of the situation years in Iceland

title: Mona Lisa & the Temple of the Whore

title: Mona Lisa & Musteri hórunnar

overview: Een experimentele documentaire over de kunstenaar BBPrince terwijl hij een film probeert te maken die de sfeer van de situatiejaren in IJsland vastlegt

job: Sound Designer

job: Music

job: Costume Design

job: Production Design

original_title: Mona Lisa & Musteri hórunnar


title: Leiðin til afreka

title: Leiðin til afreka

job: Director

job: Executive Producer

job: Sound

job: Sound Editor

original_title: Leiðin til afreka


title: Architecture of Home

overview: How do the houses we live in and their architecture affect our lives and lifestyles? The film explores the relationship between apartments and their inhabitants through the everyday life of people in four different flats in a housing project in Reykjavík.

title: Architecture of Home

title: Íslensk alþýða

overview: Hoe beïnvloeden de huizen waarin we wonen en hun architectuur ons leven en onze levensstijl? De film verkent de relatie tussen appartementen en hun bewoners aan de hand van het dagelijks leven van mensen in vier verschillende flats in een woningbouwproject in Reykjavík.

job: Director of Photography

job: Producer

original_title: Íslensk alþýða


title: In the Realm of the Gyr Falcon

overview: Magnús Magnússon´s captivating footage gives viewers the opportunity to experience Icelandic nature in a unique way. The film portrays the lives of two gyr falcon couples in the North of Iceland. The viewer follows their struggle to raise chicks under harsh conditions. In the Realm of the Gyr Falcon is fascinating cinema for all those interested in birds and Icelandic nature.

title: In the Realm of the Gyr Falcon

job: Foley

job: Screenplay

job: Still Photographer

job: Assistant Camera

original_title: Í ríki fálkans


title: Hærra ég og þú

title: Hærra ég og þú

original_title: Hærra ég og þú


title: The World Record Holder in the Lighthouse

overview: Lighthouse keepers are a dying breed all over the world, as automated equipment has been making their job obsolete. The story of Óskar- Iceland´s last lighthouse keeper, is the unique story of a recluse who has spent all his life in Storhofdi - lighthouse, the windiest weather station in Iceland, besides setting a world record in bird tagging.

title: Heimsmethafinn í vitanum

overview: Vuurtorenwachters zijn over de hele wereld een uitstervend ras, omdat geautomatiseerde apparatuur hun werk overbodig heeft gemaakt. Het verhaal van Óskar, de laatste vuurtorenwachter van IJsland, is het unieke verhaal van een kluizenaar die zijn hele leven in de Storhofdi-vuurtoren, het meest winderige weerstation van IJsland, heeft doorgebracht, naast het vestigen van een wereldrecord in het merken van vogels.

job: Editor

original_title: Heimsmethafinn í vitanum


title: The Mysteries of Snæfellsjökull

overview: Some Icelanders maintain a strong and mysterious relationship with Snæfellsjökull, a volcano-glacier located in the West of the island. This volcano has become universally celebrated, thanks to Jules Verne who indicated that it was the gateway leading to the center of the Earth.

title: The Mysteries of Snæfellsjökull

job: Assistant Director

job: Assistant Editor

job: Associate Producer

job: Color Grading

job: Location Manager

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

job: Special Effects

original_title: Dularöfl Snæfellsjökuls


title: Chukotka at the End of the World

overview: What urges a person like Roman Abramovich to be a governor at world’s end and even put a lot of effort and money into renovating and envigorating the small community of Chukotka? What do the residents in Chukotka feel for Abramovich? How is global warming affecting Chukotka? These are some of the questions that four Icelanders, headed by geophysicist and author Ari Trausti Guðmundsson, tried to find answers for among the people; both indigenous people and immigrants, from reindeer hearders and youth to scientists and town mayors.

title: Chukotka at the End of the World

job: Director

job: Sound Engineer

original_title: Chukotka á hjara veraldar


title: Children for Sale

overview: Documentary on child trafficking in Cambodia. Every year tens of thousands of young girls are trafficked and sold into slavery, sexual abuse and prostitution. We follow these girls, interview young girls that currently are or have been sex slaves and girls that have been saved from this plight and NGO employees. We ask questions like: What makes parents want to sell their children and how does the child trafficking take place? What is being done to stop the problem?  The Cambodian nation is still recovering after the genocide in the seventies where a quarter of the nation was executed. The social infrastructure is in ruins and corruption is severe. One fifth of the nation is illiterate and poverty drives children to work instead of attending school. Half the nation lives under the poverty line and earns less than a dollar a day. Poor families in the remote rural areas are the most vulnerable to the trafficking and we follow the fortunes of one such family.

title: Children for Sale

title: Börn til sölu

overview: Documentaire over kinderhandel in Cambodja. Jaarlijks worden tienduizenden jonge meisjes verhandeld en verkocht voor slavernij, seksueel misbruik en prostitutie. We volgen deze meisjes. We stellen vragen als: Waarom willen ouders hun kinderen verkopen en hoe vindt de kinderhandel plaats? Wat wordt er gedaan om het probleem te stoppen? De Cambodjaanse natie is nog steeds aan het herstellen van de genocide in de jaren zeventig, waarbij een kwart van het land werd geëxecuteerd. De sociale infrastructuur ligt in puin en de corruptie is ernstig. Een vijfde van het land is analfabeet en armoede drijft kinderen ertoe om te werken in plaats van naar school te gaan. De helft van het land leeft onder de armoedegrens en verdient minder dan een dollar per dag. Arme gezinnen in de afgelegen plattelandsgebieden zijn het meest kwetsbaar voor de mensenhandel en we volgen het lot van zo'n gezin.

job: Sound Designer

job: Music

job: Post-Production Manager

original_title: Börn til sölu


title: Everybody Present

title: Everybody Present

job: Producer

job: Director of Photography

job: Co-Producer

original_title: Allar mættar


title: Alfreð Elíasson & Loftleiðir

overview: This documentary tells the story of the aviation entrepreneur Alfred Eliasson, founder and manager of Loftleidir Icelandic, who is recognized as one of the pioneers in Trans-Atlantic passenger aviation.

title: Alfreð Elíasson & Loftleiðir

character: Narrator (English)

job: Screenplay

job: Camera Operator

original_title: Alfreð Elíasson & Loftleiðir


title: Þjórsárdalur

overview: Þjórsárdalur is one of those remarkable beauty spots in Iceland; a green oasis amidst black lava fields and glacial rivers in South-Iceland. The film shows its versitility, such as lush greenery, waterfalls and rock formations, living a good view into the valley's unforgettable beauty.

title: Þjórsárdalur

original_title: Þjórsárdalur


title: Senior Citizen Expand

overview: There is no one to say that a senior citizen can’t come up with great entrepreneurial ideas. In Senior Citizen Expand we meet two older gentlemen who take on a trip to China to put their idea into motion.

title: Senior Citizen Expand

original_title: Útrás eldri borgara


title: The Eruption!

overview: Devastating powers deep beneath the Earth crust emerge. This documentary takes you there capturing the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull in spring 2010. The volcanic eruption is filmed from air and ground, and these breathtaking shots and especially composed Icelandic music give you the eruption of the decade.

title: The Eruption!

job: Still Photographer

original_title: The Eruption!


title: Stafræna holan

title: Stafræna holan

original_title: Stafræna holan


title: Skarfar

overview: There is an astonishing relationship between man and the cormorant. In China the bird is used for fishing, in Peru its droppings are used as fertilizer and in Iceland it can be found on the supper table. In the Galapagos it lives in harmony with nature and has abandoned flying.

title: Skarfar

job: Editor

original_title: Skarfar


title: Skaftfellingur Saga

overview: We journey with a magic ship into unknown worlds, meeting the people whose lives it has touched. Skaftfellingur Saga tells the tale of the small community Vik. Situated on the rugged most southern tip of Iceland, between the roaring ocean and the menacing volcano Katla, rumbling deep under the glacier.

title: Skaftfellingur Saga

original_title: Skaftfellingur Saga


title: Following the light

title: Following the light

job: Assistant Editor

job: Sound

original_title: Sesselja - Að fylgja ljósinu


title: Spoils of War: The Saga of the Coventry Stained Glass Windows

overview: The Stained Glass Windows had been salvaged from Coventry’s medieval cathedral before it was bombed out by German forces but in 1942 they simply disappeared. Much later, it is discovered that they had found their way to Iceland. How did this happen? It is a mystery of conflicting stories, misplaced documents and confusing contradictions.

original_title: Saga af stríði og stolnum gersemum


title: Reynir Pétur gengur betur

title: Reynir Pétur gengur betur

original_title: Reynir Pétur gengur betur


title: The Next Half Hour Will Be Three Quarters

overview: Birgir Andresson is an artist that does not explain his work; instead he tells stories related to it. His collected work describes a deep thinker that never did preen on his work.

original_title: Næsti hálftími verður þrjú korter


title: Sleep in Heavenly Peace

title: Sleep in Heavenly Peace

original_title: Meinvill í myrkrunum lá


title: Pendulous Chances; the life and work of singer performer Ragnar Bjarnason

overview: Ragnar Bjarnasson career spans 60 years. Now at 75 he is ready to examine his career and allow us access to the idol Ragnar Bjarnason who is much loved by all ages. The camera follows him during a grand performance in honor of his seventy fifth birthday and gives us a glimpse of the pendulous chances of his life and career as a singer and performer.

character: Himself

job: Assistant Director

job: Boom Operator

job: Color Grading

job: Graphic Designer

job: Second Unit Cinematographer

job: Sound Recordist

original_title: Með hangandi hendi


title: Maybe I Should Have

overview: The film touches on a variety of subjects including finance, corruption, cronyism, nepotism, the privatisation of the Icelandic banking system, tax havens, connections between politics and business, the Kitchenware Revolution, the Citizens' movement, and how the Icelandic government reacted to warning signs leading up to the collapse of the banking system in 2008.  People who are interviewed include Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, William K. Black, Robert Wade, employees at Transparency International, Eva Joly and Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson. In their search for answers the filmmakers travel extensively and among the locations they visit are London, Guernsey, Luxembourg and Road Town in The British Virgin Islands.

title: Maybe I Should Have

job: Director

job: Sound Editor

original_title: Maybe I Should Have


title: Línudans

title: Línudans

job: Gaffer

job: Producer

original_title: Línudans


title: Liljur vallarins

title: Liljur vallarins

original_title: Liljur vallarins


title: The Arctic Tern, to the Moon and Back again

overview: In this wildlife documentary veteran filmmaker, Páll Steingrímsson, sets his sights on the arctic tern, which has by far the longest regular migration by any known animal.

title: Krían, til tunglsins og til baka

overview: In deze natuurdocumentaire richt ervaren filmmaker Páll Steingrímsson zijn blik op de noordse stern, die verreweg de langste reguliere migratie doormaakt van alle bekende dieren.

job: Director of Photography

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Krían, til tunglsins og til baka


title: The Iron Cross at Mýrar Cemetery

overview: This is a documentary about a teacher from Reykjavik in search of her roots and interested in the preservation of old tales and history.  Our story opens in the remote Mýrar cemetery in the West Fjords. The narrator is standing by her forefathers´ grave, which is overgrown and neglected and she senses her dead ancestors call out and implore her to do something. Beautiful irons cross lies on the grave of a young boy who died in the middle of the nineteenth century. Her curiosity aroused, the narrator discovers the story behind the iron cross memorial by talking to the archaeologist, Gunnar Bollason. She then goes on to discover similar iron crosses in cemeteries elsewhere in the southwest of the country.  We visit the town of Þingeyri and watch as the broken iron cross from the family grave is repaired by the skilled craftsmanship of Kristján Gunnarsson at his engineering workshop, a workplace with an unbroken tradition going all the way back to 1913.

title: The Iron Cross at Mýrar Cemetery

job: Screenplay

job: Music

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

original_title: Járnkrossar: Ættargrafreiturinn á Mýrum


title: Íslenzk menning: 3. byndy

title: Íslenzk menning: 3. byndy

job: Editor

original_title: Íslenzk menning: 3. byndy


title: Ice-Sar in Haiti

overview: In September 2009 the Icelandic Search and Rescue team receive an emergency call from the Republic of Thule. An earthquake has destroyed the capital of Cave Town. The population is 1.5 million. Thule does not have armed forces. Due to inland unrest the UN has a permanent presence in the country.

title: Ice-Sar in Haiti

original_title: Íslenska alþjóðabjörgunarsveitin


title: Iceland Uganda

overview: Iceland and Uganda used to be colonies under the rule of European powers but gained independence in the 20th century. This film is a portrait of these two countries, seen from the perspective of youths. How do people in the middle of Africa view life in comparison to the islanders in the north?

title: Iceland Uganda

original_title: Ísland Úganda


title: Imagine Peace

overview: Four years in the making, the film features interviews and footage never seen before, as well as older scenes of John and Yoko together, in private and performing in public. Yoko Ono talks about her and John Lennon’s love and life together, about the art they made together and their struggle for peace and justice, including the imaginative methods they used to get their message across: “Give peace a chance.”  Lennon’s music provides an inspirational soundtrack to a story that that began more than forty years ago and is still unfolding. In 2007, when Yoko Ono dedicated the Imagine Peace Tower to John’s memory she added: “My love for you is forever.”

title: Imagine Peace

job: Camera Operator

job: Co-Producer

original_title: Imagine Peace


title: The Palace

overview: Sundhöll Reykjavíkur (The Reykjavík Swimming Palace), the city’s first swimming pool, was inaugurated in 1937. The building is an architectural landmark, which for decades has functioned as a cornerstone for the elderly that live in the neighbourhood, and other daily guests. The documentary captures the atmosphere of the building by focusing on the daily routine and the colourful characters that frequent the pool. It documents an era that is coming to an end and pays tribute to disappearing generations.

title: The Palace

job: Sound

original_title: Höllin


title: Hallgrímur, maður eins og ég

title: Hallgrímur, maður eins og ég

job: Post-Production Manager

job: Production Assistant

job: Production Manager

original_title: Hallgrímur, maður eins og ég


title: In Exile Thinking of Home

overview: The scholar Sveinn Bergsveinsson, a Communist in the 1930s, was trapped in Berlin by the outbreak of World War II and forced to work for the Nazi propaganda machine. Returning to Iceland, sick with tuberculosis, he found himself branded by both sides of the cold war political divide and barred from academic work. In desperation, he emigrated to East-Germany where he became a respected professor. He always hoped to return home but died in East-Berlin in 1988, a year before the wall came down. He left behind a wealth of documents, photographs, film and voice recordings which form the basis of this narrative.

title: In Exile Thinking of Home

title: Gríp ég því hatt minn og staf

overview: De geleerde Sveinn Bergsveinsson, een communist in de jaren dertig, kwam bij het uitbreken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog vast te zitten in Berlijn en werd gedwongen te werken voor de nazi-propagandamachine. Toen hij terugkeerde naar IJsland, ziek van tuberculose, werd hij gebrandmerkt door beide kanten van de politieke scheidslijn uit de Koude Oorlog en werd hij uitgesloten van academisch werk. Wanhopig emigreerde hij naar Oost-Duitsland, waar hij een gerespecteerd professor werd. Hij hoopte altijd weer naar huis terug te keren, maar stierf in 1988 in Oost-Berlijn, een jaar voordat de muur viel. Hij liet een schat aan documenten, foto's, film- en stemopnames achter die de basis vormen van dit verhaal.

job: Color Grading

original_title: Gríp ég því hatt minn og staf


title: Walking on Sound

overview: Stomu and Sverrir are friends and accomplices. They have known each other for many years and have already worked together. Stomu has been to Iceland to take part in Sverrir’s premieres. During Sverrir’s tour of 15 Japanese cities in December 2005, the two artists spent a lot of time together in Kyoto and discussed creating a new project that would permit their sensibilities to meet.  The aim of this film is to give us an insight into this artistic friendship. The two artists create a musical project especially for our film in which Stomu’s mineral sounds encounters Sverrir’s unique voice.

title: Walking on Sound

job: Director

original_title: Gengið í hljóði


title: Garðarshólmi

title: Garðarshólmi

original_title: Garðarshólmi


title: Fríur fantasiur

title: Fríur fantasiur

original_title: Fríur fantasiur


title: Freedom?

title: Freedom?

original_title: Frelsi?


title: Tattoo Iceland

overview: A documentary/roadmovie about the trip that Jón Páll and Fjölnir, two of the best tattoo-artists in Iceland, took on motorcycles to the Faroe Islands in the summer of 2009. They opened a tattoo-shop in Klaksvik in the Faroes as a way to get to know the natives and their customs in a more personal and intimate way. They visited the local people, went to festivals and tried Faroen customs. A film about motorcycles, music, tattoos and the Faroes – where Rock’n Roll meets folk traditions!

title: Tattoo Iceland

job: Graphic Designer

job: Title Designer

original_title: Flúreyjar


title: Faceland

overview: Faceland is a documentary where young Icelanders express their views on the ever-growing, popular online connection program called Facebook. What does the belly dancing, horror movie fanatic, Guðrún think about the endless relationship status updates? How does the nurse student Gunnar describe how users can discover your superhero match?. Does Facebook really connect different people with similar interests? Or are its users guilty of cyber-stalking and spying? Six young Icelanders tell about their lives on- and offline, how Facebook has become a major factor in their social communications. Even if the cyber-world is here to stay, viewers can’t help but wonder how long this fast-growing communication program will last. The movie was shot in March 2009, at which time 45% of Icelandic population were facebook users. Almost all individuals between the ages 20-30 were active users and in every café, every bus and school people were talking about it.

title: Faceland

job: Producer

original_title: Faceland


title: As If We Existed

overview: The repetition and the circumstances increasingly take their toll when isolation, claustrophobia and paranoia set in. As if We Existed is an interpretation of an art piece by Ragnar Kjartansson who represented Iceland at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. His piece, The End, was a six month long performance.

title: As If We Existed

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Eins og við værum


title: Burkina Faso 8600 km

title: Burkina Faso 8600 km

job: Sound Designer

job: Still Photographer

original_title: Burkina Faso 8600 km


title: Granny

overview: My grandmother, Stella was born in the early 20th century. She has lived to see amazing changes around her, from steam engines to satellites, from dirt roads to asphalt and she has lived to see so many descendants that she has stopped counting. Granny tells her story and the story of a whole generation, a generation that is now disappearing.

title: Granny

original_title: Amma


title: On Northern Waters: The Story of a Boat

overview: Four experienced boatbuilders join forces in building a clinkboat of the type that was once predominant in the Breidafjord Bay archipelago in the West of Iceland. In this film the history and craft of the North European clinkboat, and its many local variations, is examined with the help of historians and boatbuilders in Iceland and other Nordic countries.

title: On Northern Waters: The Story of a Boat

job: Screenplay

job: Music

job: Executive Producer

original_title: Súðbyrðingur: Saga báts


title: The Twisted Life of Elva

overview: Everywhere Elva goes, people stare at her. And it´s no wonder, because she turns in circles, stamps her feet and twists her body in every other step. She is thirty years old and has the worst case of Tourette syndrome her doctor has ever seen. At the same time she has excessive amounts of wit and humour, and constantly makes fun of herself. This documentary is made at the point where Elva has reached her limit. Her ticks have grown so powerful she can no longer take care of herself and her little son. Her last chance is a risky brain surgery where electrodes are planted deep in her brain, an operation which is still in the experimental phase for Tourette´s.

title: The Twisted Life of Elva

character: Herself

job: Editor

job: Line Producer

original_title: Snúið líf Elvu


title: Skakkakrepes

title: Skakkakrepes

original_title: Skakkakrepes


title: The Shamrock Inn

title: The Shamrock Inn

job: Sound

original_title: The Shamrock Inn


title: Rangsælis

title: Rangsælis

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

original_title: Rangsælis


title: Paradox

overview: In 1967 Sigurður Skúlason acted in his first film - the short Paradox - but it was never finished due to the primitive state that filmmaking in Iceland was at the time. But the memory of the film haunted Sigurður for years, and now almost fifty years later, the film is finished.

title: Paradox

original_title: Paradox


title: Oddi

title: Oddi

original_title: Oddi


title: Balance

overview: Balance is a documentary about Bryndís Pétursdóttir, geopathic stress, electromagnetic waves and the effects on these invisible and untouchable phenomena on the well-being of people. Bryndís senses those waves and makes them harmless with the Balance cube she invented. We meet people she assists and hear explanations and counter-arguments from specialists who research those waves.

title: Balance

original_title: Mótvægi


title: Morbid Summer of Laziness

title: Morbid Summer of Laziness

original_title: Morbid Summer of Laziness


title: Lífsviljinn

title: Lífsviljinn

original_title: Lífsviljinn


title: Adequate Beings

overview: An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values. Bjarni (50) and his mother Sigrún (78), Mundi (93) and young farmer Skjöldur (35) are represented in this lyrical insight into a community that stuggles with market middlemen that press down produce prices, leaving increasingly less profit for the farmers themselves and threatening the fundamentals of their existence. Despite these adversities the community refuses to throw in the towel.

title: Adequate Beings

job: Sound Engineer

job: Sound Editor

original_title: Land míns föður


title: Krossgötur

overview: A man returns to his home in North Dakota & struggles with rediscovering his life, after having left his heart in Scandinavia

title: Krossgötur

original_title: Krossgötur


title: John and Reverend John

overview: He is accused of a good deal; collecting all kinds of rubbish around the refectory farm, allowing the place to deteriorate and general incompetence as a farmer. In addition, he is said not being able to control his temper, to have isolated himself from his flock and because of his oddness and idiosyncrasies his sanity has also been questioned.  Is Reverend Jón an incompetent priest? If so, why isn’t he allowed to stay at his farm? Is it because he underfeeds his sheep? Or is it because members of the congregation want to get their hands on his eider down farm for themselves? Or is it simply his appearance, contradicting the accepted notions of what a pastor should be, that has triggered the hostilities towards him.

title: John and Reverend John

original_title: Jón og séra Jón


title: Húdas Húdas

title: Húdas Húdas

original_title: Húdas Húdas


title: Anti-American Wins Nobel Prize

overview: Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, but spent his youth in the country. From the age of seventeen on, he traveled and lived abroad, chiefly on the European continent. He was influenced by expressionism and other modern currents in Germany and France. In the mid-twenties he converted to Catholicism, but Laxness's religious period did not last long; during a visit to America he became attracted to socialism, which would later on get him into trouble with the Icelandic authorities and eventually blacklisted in the U.S regardless of excellent sales and good reviews.

title: Anti-American Wins Nobel Prize

title: HKL

overview: Halldór Kiljan Laxness werd geboren in 1902 in Reykjavik, de hoofdstad van IJsland, maar bracht zijn jeugd door op het platteland. Vanaf zijn zeventiende reisde en woonde hij in het buitenland, voornamelijk op het Europese continent. Hij werd beïnvloed door het expressionisme en andere moderne stromingen in Duitsland en Frankrijk. In het midden van de jaren twintig bekeerde hij zich tot het katholicisme, maar de religieuze periode van Laxness duurde niet lang; tijdens een bezoek aan Amerika voelde hij zich aangetrokken tot het socialisme, wat hem later in de problemen zou brengen met de IJslandse autoriteiten en uiteindelijk op de zwarte lijst in de VS zou komen, ondanks uitstekende verkopen en goede recensies.

job: Co-Producer

job: Color Grading

original_title: HKL


title: Heita vatnið

title: Heita vatnið

job: Director

job: Assistant Editor

job: Graphic Designer

job: Production Assistant

original_title: Heita vatnið


title: A9ainst

overview: A9ainst is a film about nine participants in a political protest action attempted on the public benches of the Icelandic parliament in December 2008. A year after the non-violent demonstration those nine were charged and prosecuted for an ‘attack against parliament’, with reference to a sort of anti-terrorist clause in the penal code. The film is an attempt to investigate their vision: which lines of thought were pursued by those activists willing to go a few steps further than the general public 40 days before massive demonstrations overthrew Iceland’s government.

title: A9ainst

job: Assistant Director

job: Sound Designer

job: Camera Operator

job: Producer

job: Director of Photography

job: Assistant Camera


title: Everything, Everywhere, All the Time

overview: Everything, Everywhere, All the Time opens with the sound of musicians performing an old Icelandic folk song, Grýlukvæði. Only, a couple of years ago, they didn’t know each other - now they're touring Europe together.  In 2006, Icelandic producer Valgeir Sigurðsson founded the Bedroom Community record label with Nico Muhly and Ben Frost, soon adding Sam Amidon to the intimate roster. After three years of concerts, collaborations and acclaimed album releases, the then four artists of Bedroom Community headed out together for a trek across Europe: The Whale Watching Tour.  More than just a series of concerts, the tour was an extension of the ongoing musical exchange between these diverse artists, having them contributing to each other's music on stage. The film follows the four artists on tour, but also provides insight into the colorful characters and explores the vision behind Bedroom Community as well as introducing the home of the label, the Greenhouse studios.

title: Everything, Everywhere, All the Time

job: Music

job: Editor

original_title: Everything, Everywhere, All the Time


title: Busca La Vida

overview: The film 'Busca la vida' is about young people who have chosen to live on the streets in Malaga - southern Spain, 2003-2004. The film is a glimpse into their lives in times of change when authorities tightened measures against street people as means to drive them away from the city.

title: Busca La Vida

original_title: Busca La Vida


title: Birth of an Island - The Making of Iceland

overview: Birth of an island is a film that gives the viewer a unique opportunity to experience the creation of Iceland, the youngest country in Europe; an island that is still in the making! And why is that? Birth of an island explores how Iceland was created through volcanic eruptions on the Mid-Atlantic submarine ridge, why they continue and what effects they have on the island today. Why there are geysers and how the Icelanders learned how to harness the power of the natural hot water from deep below, as well as that of glacial rivers. It also shows how natural forces, such as glaciers, rivers, waterfalls, the Atlantic ocean and volcanoes constantly sculpture and mold the island. Explains why the island lost most of its vegetation, so Iceland is now the only country in Europe that has deserts. Also, what measures Icelanders have taken to recover the island´s woodlands.

overview: Een film die de kijker een unieke kans geeft om het ontstaan van IJsland, het jongste land van Europa, mee te maken; een eiland dat nog in de maak is! En waarom is dat? Birth of an island onderzoekt hoe IJsland is ontstaan door vulkaanuitbarstingen op de Mid-Atlantische onderzeese rug, waarom deze voortduren en welke effecten ze vandaag de dag op het eiland hebben. Waarom er geisers zijn en hoe de IJslanders leerden hoe ze de kracht van het natuurlijke warme water van diep onder de grond konden benutten, evenals die van gletsjerrivieren. Het laat ook zien hoe natuurlijke krachten, zoals gletsjers, rivieren, watervallen, de Atlantische Oceaan en vulkanen, het eiland voortdurend vormgeven en vormen. Verklaart waarom het eiland het grootste deel van zijn vegetatie heeft verloren, waardoor IJsland nu het enige land in Europa is met woestijnen. En welke maatregelen de IJslanders hebben genomen om de bossen op het eiland te herstellen.

job: Screenplay


title: Að syngja fyrir heiminn

overview: A documentary about the singer Kristinn Sigmundsson.

title: Að syngja fyrir heiminn

job: Sound

original_title: Að syngja fyrir heiminn


title: 7 Years

title: 7 Years

job: Sound Editor

job: Sound Re-Recording Mixer

original_title: 7 Ár


title: Swim for your life

overview: The film follows the brave attempts of two men to be the first Icelander to swim the English Channel, the Mount Everest of swimmers, their failures and eventually the success of one of them.  Interwoven with the story of the amazing endurance of these two men, is the history of swimming in Iceland and in particular the long and hard struggle to re-introduce the skill after it had been almost totally lost to this seafaring nation. By the 19th century it is reckoned that in the whole of Iceland no more than 6 individuals of a population of 50.000, knew how to swim.  With references to the ancient Icelandic sages, we learn through staged scenes how a local hero took on and defeated the Norwegian kin in a bout of the popular Viking sport of sea wrestling and how a mother fled after her husband was viciously killed, swimming to land with her two children.

title: Swim for your life

job: Costume Design

job: Production Manager

job: Storyboard Artist

job: Color Grading

job: Production Design

original_title: SUNDIÐ - Að synda eða sökkva


title: Haunted Trails: The Fate and Apprehension of the Reynistadurbrothers

overview: Haunted Trails is a drama documentary about the relationship of Icelanders with history and histories, the relationship of the living with the dead, about the sex life of ghosts and packed lunches. It attempts to capture the quiet joy of making sense of one’s surroundings and heritage, regardless of how bleak, indistinct and mystifying the pretext. What remains, is a vivid image of the Reynistaður brothers’ diet and recurring apprehensions.

job: Director

original_title: Reimt á Kili: Uggur og örlög Reynistaðarbræðra


title: Performing the Flute

overview: An existential mediatation on a womans life as a musician.

title: Performing the Flute

original_title: Performing the Flute


title: The Wish

overview: 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 album was to mark the return of the troubadour and raconteur he was known as in the beginning of his career. Following the recordings this film presents a portrait of a national icon we all think we know, but few of us really, truly do.

title: The Wish

original_title: Óskin


title: Young people's art festival in east-Iceland

overview: For a week over the summer every year an art festival for young people takes place at Seyðisfjörður on the east coast of Iceland.

title: MynD af LungA

overview: Elk jaar vindt in Seyðisfjörður aan de oostkust van IJsland een week lang een kunstfestival voor jongeren plaats.

original_title: MynD af LungA


title: The North Atlantic Miracle

overview: A lyrical documentary on the miraculous lifespan of the North-Atlantic Salmon. Shot in pristine Iceland in and around one of the few rivers in the World that are home to the migrating Salmon and have not been manipulated in any way. No dams - no salmon fry stocked by man - everything in the river regarding the Salmon is untouched by man. In these unspoiled conditions the filmmakers shot hundreds of hours over a period of more than two years. Now the fruit of their labor is in your hands - prepare to immerse in the beautiful world of the North-Atlantic Salmon. Be one with this magnificent creature - swim with the Salmon - die with the Salmon and experience the rebirth through the next generation of the King of fishes.

title: The North Atlantic Miracle

job: Co-Producer

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Lónbúinn - Kraftaverkasaga


title: Poetic documentary

overview: This dreamlike and poetic documentary follows a year in the life of the Icelandic rock group Sudden Weather Change.

title: Poetic documentary

original_title: Ljóðræn heimildarmynd


title: Ibba & Jósa - Cooking with heart & soul

overview: This film explores the beautiful and honest relationship between two women, of a different age, running a catering service in downtown Reykjavík. How did they meet? How do they get along? What keeps them together?

title: Ibba & Jósa - Cooking with heart & soul

title: Ibba & Jósa - matargerð með hjarta og sál

overview: Korte documentaire:  Deze film onderzoekt de mooie en eerlijke relatie tussen twee vrouwen van een andere leeftijd, die een cateringservice runnen in het centrum van Reykjavík. Hoe hebben ze elkaar ontmoet? Hoe gaan ze met elkaar om? Wat houdt hen bij elkaar?


title: Steve Gym

overview: Icelandic powerlifting documentary, entitled “HRIKALEGIR!!!” (“Horrific!!!” – Icelandic power cheer), following the strongmen of downtown Reykjavik power gym Steve Gym – the cradle of Icelandic muscle.

title: Steve Gym

title: Hrikalegir

overview: Een IJslandse documentaire over powerlifting, getiteld "HRIKALEGIR!!!" ("Verschrikkelijk!!!" - IJslandse aanmoedigingskreet), volgt de krachtsporters van Steve Gym in het centrum van Reykjavik - de bakermat van de IJslandse spiergroei.

job: Producer

original_title: Hrikalegir


title: Cry for Mercy

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

title: Cry for Mercy

original_title: Fjallkonan hrópar á vægð


title: Lady of the Mountain

overview: The summer of 2004 two engineer from Seyðisfjörður found a three-blade broach and an oval broach high up in the mountains of East Fjords in Iceland. Archaeologists arrived on the scene under the direction of Sigurd Bergsteinsson. They discover remains of a Viking woman, some jewelry and over 500 pearls.  Who was this woman? What was she doing in the mountains, all by herself?  The finding was unique, never before have so many artifacts from a Viking woman been found in an open country.  The film is produced in collaboration with the National Museum of Iceland and The Archaeological Heritage Agency of Iceland.

title: Lady of the Mountain

job: Sound Engineer

job: Camera Operator

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Fjallkonan


title: Filma

overview: A photographer travels along the south coast of Iceland in an attempt to capture an undying image of the lighthouse in Hrolllaugseyjum. As he battles the forces of nature his journey falls apart while death waits around the corner.

title: Filma

original_title: Filma


title: Elephant Whisperer

overview: This is a personal story of one small woman’s fight to save one of the planet’s largest animals. Lek has saved hundreds of Asian Elephants from abuse, street begging and hardship over the past 20 years. Working from a remote village in Northern Thailand, she continues her dangerous work despite obstacles and death threats. Running this sanctuary, Lek has devoted her life to saving this animal. As experts predict the Asian Elephant faces extinction within four decades, her work is needed now more than ever.

title: Elephant Whisperer

original_title: Fílahvíslarinn


title: Doxwise

overview: Young people in the ages of 19-24 years old, record themselves and their every day lifes, their  experiences, thoughts and daily routine in a 10 week period of videoblog. Hlöðver is gay and lives with his boyfriend in Hnífsdalur, Ríkey is a student at the Icelandic film school and just moved to the big city from Grundarfjordur. Jón Karl is twenty years old a student at the High School in Mosfellsbær and is a manic depressive and Helena Guðrún is a 24 years old single mom that studies at the University of Iceland and drives a taxicab occasionally in the evenings.

title: Doxwise

original_title: Doxwise


title: The Pitch: A Sports Arena With a Soul

overview: The Pitch tells the story of Melavöllurinn, Reykjavík’s main sports arena and meeting place until the 70’s. The Pitch served as a melting pot of ideas for Iceland’s newly acquired independence in 1944 that brought back hope and prosperity in the years to come.

title: The Pitch: A Sports Arena With a Soul

job: Editor

job: Music

original_title: Blikkið - Saga Melavallarins


title: Silent Voices

overview: Silent Voices tells the story of Icelandic nature that is in danger due to dam and powerplant projects. Furthermore, it touches on the story of the land that has already been sacrificed for heavy industry, around 80% of produced electricity in Iceland goes directly to multinational heavy industry corporations.

title: Silent Voices

job: Screenplay

job: Post-Production Manager

original_title: Baráttan um landið


title: Canvas and Curtains

overview: Canvas and Curtains is a documentary about the icelandic artist and scenographer, Steinthor Sigurdsson. This biography narrates Steinthors story from his childhood years in his native town Stykkisholmur, until present time. Steinthor recently celebrated his 80th birthday and has in the past few years continued his work as exhibition planner and designer. In this film we follow his present time work, designing the Icelandic Seal Center in Hvammstangi and the Volcano Museum in Stykkisholmur. Steinthor goes to visit an old friend in Stockholm. The trip brings back memories from their school years at Stockholms art academy and in Spain in the fifties.

title: Canvas and Curtains

original_title: St. Sig: Strigi og flauel


title: The Living Sea

title: The Living Sea

job: Sound

original_title: Kvikur sjór


title: Fit Hostel Refugee Camp Iceland

overview: In Fit Hostel near Keflavik airport in Iceland is a refugee camp for asylum seekers in Iceland. Many have been there for years while their cases are being processed.

title: Fit Hostel Refugee Camp Iceland

title: Fit Hostel

overview: In Fit Hostel vlakbij de luchthaven Keflavik in IJsland is een vluchtelingenkamp voor asielzoekers in IJsland. Velen zijn daar al jaren terwijl hun zaken in behandeling zijn.

original_title: Fit Hostel


title: Volcanic Eruptions and Ash

overview: The documentary deals with volcanic eruptions in Iceland and the ash from them, causing damage to vegation and effecting global climate. The main part deals with the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull 2010. Furthermore the eruptions in Surtsey 1963, Heimaey 1973 and finally Skaftáreldar 1783.

title: Volcanic Eruptions and Ash

original_title: Eldur og aska


title: The General Store

overview: The small shop Verzlun H. Júlíusson in the town of Sauðárkrókur located in North Iceland. is not just a small grocery store but so much more. It is the last one of its kind in Iceland. Everyone entering the shop travels decades back in time. The 83 years old shopkeeper Bjarni Haraldsson sells a little bit of everything but hasn’t changed much in the store that was opened by his father in 1919.  Most of the furniture in use dates back half a century as well as the old scales. One can buy everything from tea pots to packet soup, working pants and hinges to batteries, screws, and lollipops. Bjarni still serves customers, day by day. He chats a little bit with them and eventually goes hunting for something they might need.

title: The General Store

original_title: Búðin - Þar sem tíminn stendur í stað


title: Vikingo

overview: In the Dominican Republic, cockfighting is the national sport. One of the best-known breeders is Jón Ingi Gíslason, a farmer’s son from Iceland. This is his story, and the story of Gabriel, a shoeshine boy who dreams of owning a cock from the Vikingo farm and becoming a famous gallero like Jón Ingi.

title: Vikingo

original_title: Vikingo


title: Glacier Man

overview: A story about a common man that arose to the level of a national treasure through his storytelling and other incredible endeavors. A man that did not compromise any of his dreams, hopes and visions in a rapidly changing world, but kept true to his ways and the philosophy that he received directly from past ages.

title: Glacier Man

original_title: Jöklarinn


title: We Are Still Here

overview: The tiny village of Flateyri in North West Iceland is a community in crisis. The young people have moved away, the fish factory and the recording studio have been sold to make holiday homes, and one third of its residents are now Polish people who came only for the work. Nestled inside the West Fjords, this quaint outpost is perched upon a narrow finger of land which juts out into Önundarfjörður, situated well within striking distance to the fertile fishing grounds that ultimately gave rise to this settlement.

title: We Are Still Here

original_title: Veðrabrigði

production_countries: IS PL DE


title: The Sea Baron

overview: The Sea Baron is a cinema verité-styled documentary set in a restaurant by the old Reykjavík harbour, where the legendary sailor Kjartan Halldórsson, who spent decades cooking at sea on vessels of all sizes, started a fishmarket by himself in an old baiting house. Without obtaining any official permit and due to popular demand, he started cooking too and soon had a lively restaurant which is by now one of the most prosperous in Iceland, with top reviews in the NY Times and international media; one of Reykjavík’s landmarks. Instrumental in this success is Kjartan’s jovial and hospitable character, making every guest feel at home.

title: The Sea Baron

original_title: Sægreifinn


title: Black Peak: A War Story

overview: In the Fossvogur Military Cemetery in Reykjavik Iceland there are 6 gravestones with the names of the crew of a Wellington bomber that in 1941 crashed into Svartahnjúk (Black Peak) mountain in the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in West Iceland. But the rescue team only found 4 bodies.  The documentary Black Peak - a war story, tells us how the Second World War collided with the peaceful countryside in Eyrarsveit county and how the legend of the crew and the airplane have lived on for more than 70 years.

title: Black Peak: A War Story

original_title: Svartihnjúkur: Stríðssaga úr Eyrarsveit


title: Studmenn: The Story of a Band

overview: The story of Iceland’s oldest boys band, Studmenn, is truly remarkable and is told here from childhood till ripe old age.

title: Studmenn: The Story of a Band

original_title: Saga Stuðmanna