Björn Thors

Björn Thors

Birth : 1978-01-12, Reykjavík, Iceland

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Björn Thors

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Sealskin
Ólafur
Five-year-old Sól and her father live in an isolated house by the sea. Sól spends lonely days with her imagination while her father, a composer, struggles with his music. When Sól senses that her father is burdened by sorrow, she finds solace in an old Icelandic folk tale.
Kitchen by Measure
Ingólfur
Ingólfur tries to make the perfect kitchen for his wife.
Pity the Lovers
Óskar
Óskar and Maggi are two brothers, longing for love but seemingly doomed to stay single. Óskar shies from relationships but is secretly in love with his childhood sweetheart Anna, engaged to another and safely out of reach. Maggi on the other hand is overly eager and goes from one relationship to another, hoping for eternal love each time. A film about the complexity of human relations and the searching for love.
Woman at War
Prime Minister
Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
Patient Seven
Street Zombie (segment: "Undying Love")
The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.
Rainbow Party
Dóra's father
Rainbow Party tells the story of Sofia, who realizes that if you can't beat them, well then you better join them. In her quest to be accepted by the popular girls in her class, Sofia finds herself sacrificing her true friendships and morals. Whoever said that teenage girls were innocent - well, they were so wrong.
We Are Number One
Bobby Rotten
Robbie Rotten, the primary antagonist of LazyTown, attempts to teach his "dream team" of villainous accomplices how to successfully catch a superhero, specifically Sportacus.
París Norðursins
Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit.
Mindbroken
Father
The story of a teenager in the early stages of psychosis and how his family reacts when they realize it.
Þetta reddast
Villi
A young journalist who is on the last chance, both in his job and his relationship because of his drinking problem. He decides to try to save the relationship by taking the girlfriend to a hotel in the Eastern Iceland to get peace and some space with her. But as this is decided, his boss makes him two choices, to keep the job and work the weekend or lose the job to hang out with the girlfriend. At least he tries to strike two birds with one stone, but we'll see how that goes.
Frost
Gunnar
A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar, wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly force.
The Deep
Hannes
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
Undying Love
Street Zombie
What lengths does a man go to hold on to love.
Borgríki
Rúnar
A police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart condition, a corrupt officer in love with a prostitute will destroy each other.
Come to Harm
Co-Producer
The barren, concrete landscape of contemporary Reykjavik contributes the setting for the thriller, which tells the story of Stefan, whose life is slipping into turmoil. When he senses an intruder in his home, panic quickly turns to grim determination as he decides to arm himself for the inevitable confrontation.
Come to Harm
Stefán
The barren, concrete landscape of contemporary Reykjavik contributes the setting for the thriller, which tells the story of Stefan, whose life is slipping into turmoil. When he senses an intruder in his home, panic quickly turns to grim determination as he decides to arm himself for the inevitable confrontation.
Small Things
Guðmundur
When Peter is called to work on his day-off a chain of events starts to unravel that effect him and the people around him.
Utopia
A student in politics, Jón, is covering for his friend from school as an assistant in the kitchen of a remotely situated home for the disabled for one weekend. Strange working procedures at the home come to Jón´s attention. Disputes seem to be resolved by a secret voting and Jón thinks democracy is threatened. But all is not what it seems.
Support
Patient
A dying man in an intensive care unit decides to take his fate into his own hands.
Reykjavik Guesthouse: Rent a Bike
Director
Jóhann is a thirty year old guesthouse owner in downtown Reykjavík who has isolated himself socially after the death of his father. The guesthouse has no visitors until his nine year old neighbour starts visiting Jóhann which leads to a unlikely friendship.
The Way of the Wind
A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.
Siblings
Sindri Birkisson
Jenna and Joni, twins in their 30’s living in Helsinki, find out that they have a stepsister, Jóna, living in Iceland. Their first meeting in Reykjavik changes the lives of them all. Jenna becomes pregnant and moves to Iceland. Jóna tries to keep distance from her Finnish siblings but Jenna’s children and Joni’s falling ill connects her to the twins. The film starts from a situation where the siblings go through the events seven years later. They all remember things differently.