Iceland Movies

Lighthouse keepers are a dying breed all over the world, as automated equipment has been making their job obsolete. The story of Óskar-...

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...

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...

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,...

How do you like Iceland? is a documentary about foreigners' perception of Icelanders. The film is mainly based on interviews with 37 foreigners from...

This documentary is an invitation to an adventurous travel about the central highlands of Iceland within and surrounding the Vatnajökull Galcier...

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...

Over the course of a year, we watch the bridge builder Haukur Karlsson and the musician Pál Pamphichler Pálsson at work, including the...

We follow a highlander who is reborn thorughout the centuries whenever historical events take place.

A documentary about the Icelandic artist Sverrir Haraldsson

A documentary about the life and work of the Icelandic writer Gunnar Gunnarsson.

This documentary film shows the development of the wool industry in Iceland, and the old ways to work the wool, used on Icelandic farms throughout...

The film shows in detail how Icelandic rivers are cultivated, with particular emphasis on maintaining fish stock. There are scenes from a salmon...

A film about Einar Guðmundsson, the poet (Einar Guðmundsson, litlaskáld)

This documentary shows how Icelanders maintain the salmon stock in their rivers. It includes scenes from salmon fishing in the river Laxá...

The five thousand inhabitants of the Westman Islands were evacuated during the 1973 volcanic eruption and relocated in various towns on the mainland....

The film begins in the early hours of the morning of January 23rd 1973. A mile long fissure had ripped itself open on the outskirt of the fishing...

The film discusses the gap between the public and "accepted" art.

A programme about the Icelandic actor, Brynjólfur Jóhannesson, with excerpts from some of his most famous performances.

Originally intended to be a reenactment of a shipwreck rescue, that turned into an actual documentary about a real shipwreck rescue that took place...