Ingvar Lundberg

The title of Gústav Geir Bollason’s first essay in feature-length filmmaking is bewitchingly matter of fact: Mannvirki means structure or building – it’s composed of two parts, where the first means person, and the second fortress. And this is exactly what Mannvirki is about. It shows people in a once-sturdy, now derelict building that could have been anything from a scientific research station to some army structure.

Una pareja islandesa vive con su rebaño de ovejas en una hermosa pero remota granja. Cuando descubren un misterioso recién nacido en su tierra, deciden quedárselo y criarlo como propio. Este acontecimiento inesperado, y la perspectiva de una nueva familia, les trae mucha alegría antes de destruirlos en última instancia.

Una pareja islandesa vive con su rebaño de ovejas en una hermosa pero remota granja. Cuando descubren un misterioso recién nacido en su tierra, deciden quedárselo y criarlo como propio. Este acontecimiento inesperado, y la perspectiva de una nueva familia, les trae mucha alegría antes de destruirlos en última instancia.

After a career more influential than most in Icelandic contemporary art, at 87, Magnús Pálsson stages his most substantial performances and undertakes a voyage both through his own catalogue and Icelandic autumn landscapes to his cottage, Askew, in Dalir county.

En este documental de 'arqueología cinematográfica', Bill Morrison, especialista en películas de metraje encontrado, rescata centenares de películas perdidas, realizadas a principios del siglo XX en un remoto pueblo norteamericano que sufrió la fiebre del oro. Desde su nacimiento, el cine desafió uno de los grandes temores del ser humano: el paso del tiempo. Así, la vida podía quedar plasmada en el celuloide. Se calcula que el 80% del cine mudo que se produjo entre 1895 y finales de los años 20 en todo el mundo ha desaparecido. Por ello cobran tanto valor las imágenes que "Dawson City: Frozen Time" rescata de 533 películas producidas en Canadá en los años 10 y 20 del pasado siglo. Fantasmagorías que permanecieron "criogenizadas" en hielo durante 50 años, y que regresaron a la luz tras una explosión en Dawson City. Los materiales encontrados desfilan por la pantalla, como un baile de fantasmas, al ritmo de Sigur Rós.

Comedian Þorsteinn Guðmundsson travels from Reykjavik to Hrísey, a small island in the North of Iceland to do stand-up in the middle of the winter. On the way he sings, eats fast food, and thinks out loud about sex and Christmas. When being on the road in Iceland you're forced to expect the unexpected and be ready to make serious compromise to lodging. The groupies are also mostly adolescent boys with bad skin.

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.

Oscuro thriller que gira en torno a las drogas. (FILMAFFINITY)

Oscuro thriller que gira en torno a las drogas. (FILMAFFINITY)

A short film about a young boy's escape from reality, the search for love and security, about cryptic messages from outer space and an invisible friend in the cellar. Based on the director's own memories, this is the story of a young boy's world filled with fantasies and dreams of distant worlds. His eccentric grandmother is his best friend and his partner in the world of the imagination.

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.”

It is the night before Christmas and all through the decrepit school house nothing is stirring, not even a mouse. Well that is not exactly the truth, but what has happened in this weather beaten building in the barren Icelandic tundra is more akin to cruel fantasy than stark reality. A few days ago the participants of an experimental rehab clinic came there in order to cast out their inner demons, stay away from temptation and finally discover a little about their sober selves. That didn’t go quite according to plan, but they discovered Santa was real.

Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert acts out and suffers the consequences.

A love story about two gay wrestlers living in rural Iceland who must keep their relationship a secret from the inner world of Iceland's national and very macho sport.

Adaptación de un poema épico anglosajón, esta gran aventura medieval narra la historia del guerrero Beowulf y su batalla contra un troll asesino y sediento de sangre, Grendel. En nombre del Rey Hrothgar, respetado Señor de Danes, Beowulf lidera y guía a un ejército de guerreros a través del mar hasta el lugar donde se encuentra el monstruo. Pero éste no es una criatura de poderes míticos, sino un ser de carne y hueso aparentemente lleno de venganza y ansias de sangre. Pero a medida que Beowulf se dispone a matar en nombre de Hrothgar, comienza a descubrir que su Rey es más responsable de la ira del troll de lo que pensaba.

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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.

A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father but he's too preoccupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to loser friends talk about what Sylvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.

Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually takes them to an unknown emotional territory bouncing them between supposed fantasy and the vicious reality of life.

Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually takes them to an unknown emotional territory bouncing them between supposed fantasy and the vicious reality of life.

Within the walls of the hospital, the duo develops a strong visceral relationship that eventually takes them to an unknown emotional territory bouncing them between supposed fantasy and the vicious reality of life.

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.

One day a heavy smoker finally quits his habit exactly when the clock hits noon. After years of thinking about it, he has reached a point of no return. During the next hour he has to face a series of unexpected irritations. Can he resist the temptation of the seductive cigarette? Has he picked the right day for such torture?

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