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The old harbour in Reykjavík was once the town's most important centre for freight transport, and as late as 1966 it was still used by passenger craft. This film depicts the harbour atmosphere and we follow the activities of harbour workers and watch passengers leave for distant countries.
A documentary that introduces the main places in Öræfasveit, for examples Ingólfshöfði to name a few. The picture gives a beautiful view of nature and life in Öræfasveit in the middle of the last century.
Documentary about Iceland’s establishment of a republican system of government in 1944.
In an unspecified war-torn European country, two young girls, aged about 8 and 4, struggle to survive, the older girl having to find food and shelter. When a truckload of soldiers, having gang-raped a discarded naked woman, spots them in a house, the girls are forced up into the attic, but there appears to be no escape. Then the older girl tears their clothing, smears red muck over them, and orders the 4-year-old to lie still. This has the desired effect of convincing the men the girls had been raped and murdered, and they leave.
The three-woman strong artists' collaboration The Icelandic Love Corporation's animation guides the viewer to friendship through the world's perils and paranoia. Narrated in the grey hues of a 1970s Czech cartoon, the forces of good and evil battle it out in a mythical universe as Hieronymus Bosch-style creatures meet Icelandic elves to a drum-solo frenzy. And at the end, we receive the hard won advice on how to stay (or become) sympathetic.
A mother will do anything to get revenge on something not from this world.
A never before seen look into the mysterious world of the Iceberg Licking Society as the association faces iceberg-licking’s greatest threat: global warming.
Glaciers have been distinctive features of the Icelandic landscape ever since human settlement on the island 1200 years ago. But since the early 20th century Iceland’s 400+ glaciers have been melting steadily, now losing roughly 11 billion tons of ice every year; scientists predict that all of Iceland’s glaciers will be gone by 2200. One of Iceland’s smallest known glaciers is named “Ok.” Not Ok is its story. This is not a tale of spectacular, collapsing ice. Instead, it is a little film about a small glacier on a low mountain--a mountain who has been observing humans for a long time and has a few things to say to us.
Sölvi and Gústi are stuck in a summer house just as the world is about to end. Amidst the craziness certain secrets come to light and their friendship is put to the test.
Fantasy on Sarabanda is a visual fantasy in claymation on the movement Sarabanda from J.S. Bach's D-minor partita for solo violin. The piece is a video of an animated sculpture which interprets the expressions in the music like in a ballet, pantomime or a silent film.
Feó learns that his deceased father was a creator of a martial art based on ballet, before being killed by his arch-enemy Frankódragó. So it's up to Feó to learn the art of ballet and avenge his father.
Set in no strict period, "Glugga" is inspired by the cold brutality of both Nordic reality & myth. The film follows a young blind & deaf woman abandoned in the Icelandic wilderness as she walks the very same steps in the stone forge of Thingevellier that many did on their way to the Drekkingarhylur (Drowning Pool) during Iceland's dark era of Reformation. The voiceover is taken entirely from the world of Icelandic romantic-era women poets.
A portrait of my niece Guðrún
Everyone thinks Addy is in the perfect relationship with her girlfriend Salka. When Addy witnesses her friend help another friend from an abusive relationship, Addy is forced to look at the flaws in her own relationship.
1973, the Vietnam War is coming to a close as the world buckles under new attitudes and changing priorities. Far from the din of history, in a small village in southern Iceland, a young man falls for a soldier at the nearby US army base.
A tale of how Njál, a character from the Icelandic Sagas, is burned at the stake.
The new Skoppa and Skrítla series for preschoolers comprises five 12-minute episodes in which the duo and their friends Lúsí, Bakari Svakari and Zummí travel near and far to visit a different 2- to 8-year-old child each time and discover how that child pursues their dream of “what I want to be when I grow up.” Focusing on positive, age-appropriate storytelling, the show celebrates each little one’s unique ambitions and the first steps they take toward fulfilling them.