Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson

In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with a rare hereditary disease with no cure.

A mentally ill woman who's been submerging her violent impulses for years unravels after she marries a controlling older man and relocates to his suburban home.

Un arisco anciano choca con su nuera cuando, a consecuencia de una caída, tenga que trasladarse a vivir con la familia de su hijo a Helsinski, una ciudad moderna, lejos de su entorno. Su nuera es una mujer de carrera que no tiene tiempo para perder con un cascarrabias. Las cosas se complican cuando el gruñón decide ayudar a su nuera a cerrar un trato con unos empresarios rusos y mejorar la relación con su hijo.

Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.

MONA is a modern and thrilling drama with erotic and fantasy elements. In a rural area where a slaughterhouse is the only industry lives a mysterious nature child Mona. The dull routine of villagers is broken by a city businessman Thomas who comes there for his uncle’s funeral and to sell the inherited estate. Meeting Mona throws Thomas in a dangerous maelstrom of illusions, passion and obsession.

Ragnar Alexsson, a.k.a. RAX, is among the most celebrated photographers in the world. His series Faces of the North are a living document of the dying cultures of the far northern reaches of the planet. His photo essays of farmers and fishermen in Icleand, and of the great hunters of Greenland give an amazing insight into everyday life of people who struggle a daily battle with the Arctic nature. A celebration of the photographer and his subjects, Last Days of the Arctic is an elegy for a disappearing landscape and the people who inhabit it.

Part of the BBC’s ‘Free Your Imagination: Books on the BBC’, the ‘Viking Sagas’ is a Century Films Production. This hour-long film explores how the unique literary achievements of the Saga writers were possible at a time of such immense cultural, political and religious upheaval.

After taking over the local radio station in a small town a young man soon discovers that he is living in an other mans existence which stretches beyond life and death.

This film is about an elderly lady (Gogo) who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease. It looks at her son and her family's reaction to her illness.

When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they expected the usual complication involved in making a movie, but what they encountered made them wonder if the Norse gods were actually working against them.

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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.

A documentary about the bustling Icelandic musical scene. This documentary covers some of Iceland's most talented and well-known musicians.

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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.

Frannie Avery, profesora de escritura creativa, vive sola en Nueva York. Inteligente y reservada, se dedica a investigar sobre el lenguaje de la calle y la novela policíaca. Pero una noche algo cambia en su vida: presencia involuntariamente un momento de intimidad entre un hombre y una mujer. La carga erótica de la situación la paraliza y, aunque no llega a ver el rostro del hombre, no olvidará el tatuaje de su muñeca ni su sensual mirada. Al poco tiempo, se entera, al ser interrogada por un policía, de un oscuro crimen cometido cerca de su apartamento. El detective Malloy, un hombre seductor, que a Frannie le resulta extrañamente familiar, cree que ella puede saber algo. Aunque Frannie intenta mantener las distancias, no puede evitar sentirse atraída por él.

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When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.

The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.

A hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger, unselfish and humanitarian sister by hiding the shame of her younger sister's pregnancy, with the purpose of upholding the aristocratic status of their name and household. Or that is what we are told, because underneath the facade, is a story of two sisters, who have had intimacy with the same man.

Two friends, Rannvá and Barba, return to Faroe Islands after seven years abroad. The girls arouse both curiosity and outrage with their bizarre city appearance and emancipated behaviour. They embark on a road trip with one of the locals, Rúni, who - as it turns out - also carries a dark secret. The trio goes on a journey not just through the beautiful landscape of the Faroes but into the land of the past.

Two friends, Rannvá and Barba, return to Faroe Islands after seven years abroad. The girls arouse both curiosity and outrage with their bizarre city appearance and emancipated behaviour. They embark on a road trip with one of the locals, Rúni, who - as it turns out - also carries a dark secret. The trio goes on a journey not just through the beautiful landscape of the Faroes but into the land of the past.

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Después de algunos años, Ossy va a visitar a su antiguo compañero de juergas Jimmy, que vive en Islandia. Jimmy no le recibe muy entusiasmado ya que ahora tiene un trabajo, una casa y está viviendo con Anna, con la que tiene un hijo y a la que tampoco ha contado nada sobre su pasado salvaje y criminal. La falta de sinceridad hace que la vida perfecta de Jimmy se convierta en un infierno, y culpa por ello a Ossy, que tampoco le ha contado la verdadera y trágica causa de su visita al que probablemente sea el único amigo que ha tenido alguna vez.

Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist, Dr. Lark, is acting funny towards her friend, and decides to investigate. Mona and Anne will find themselves embroiled in a strange world of psychiatry and fanaticism, in which both young women's lives will be endangered.

Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generation dreams of dollars, Rock'n'Roll and the American way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery - they're never short of a good reason to booze. Devil's Island vividly depicts the everyday life of a wacky family, their neighbours and friends and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't.

Anton is 10 years old. Anton's father was a jet fighter pilot who died in an accident. Anton's mother told Anton that his father is flying angels around in heaven. Anton is obsessed with aeroplanes (his bedroom is full of models and posters) and is (re-)building a full-size aeroplane in the Garage. He plans to use this aeroplane to fly up to his father. The film is about Anton coming to terms with his father's death and about friends, enemies and first love.

Todo lo que el pobre Atsushi Hirata quería realmente es dejar atrás el frío invierno de Japón y poder tomarse una semana de vacaciones en la cálida Hawaii. Pero, desafortunadamente, Atsushi tendrá que hacer honor a una tradición y acabar en la aún más fría Islandia para rendir tributo a un pariente que murió 7 años atrás... Road movie que narra el viaje físico y espiritual de un hombre ordinario a través de un país muy extraño. Un viaje que cambiará su vida para siempre. (FILMAFFINITY)

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A story in the form of a fairy tale, that tells of the time the Princess calls upon her hero to slay the modern day dragon. The film is unusual in the way it portrays ecological issues in a highly artistic way.

A story in the form of a fairy tale, that tells of the time the Princess calls upon her hero to slay the modern day dragon. The film is unusual in the way it portrays ecological issues in a highly artistic way.

A documentary about driftwood in Iceland and the sculptor Sæmundur Valdimarsson.

An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.

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12 hours in the life of a young man who has just received bad news which change everything.

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A poetic short film about a lone soldier set in the Icelandic interior. His luck runs out when, armed with cannon, he attempts to threaten Mother Nature.

Inspired by a poem by Lars Norén, By Herself is an oneiric film about a woman who lives alone and who comes home late one evening. Beautifully filmed, By Herself is a film that dwells on the mysteries of time, loneliness, and desire.

Maria is somewhat of a rebel and problem child. Her mother died and her father remarried some awful lady, and Maria isn't happy at all. She takes a drug overdose and winds up in a home for other girls with problems, but the two women who run the place turn out to be not quite the ladies they seemed. Maria knows she can't stay there very long, and starts planning her escape.

A whale-boat is making its final whaling tour of the season. It pursues and catches a whale, and then proceeds home. The men working on the boat have to find themselves different employment now that the season is over. Among the crew are two friends, Grímur and Bubbi. They are well- seasoned and experienced seamen of the kind that never puts down roots anywhere. Grímur is not the kind of man to allow much to set him off balance. When he arrives on land he heads directly for the capital where he intends to make a new start and get himself involved in the night life. With him is his faithful and rather troll-like companion, Bubbi. The film then mainly concerns itself with their efforts to make some kind of contact with what is going on in Reykjavik.

Tells the story of the social worker Marta and her complicated relationships with the people around her.

In September 2015 there were 400 years since the slaying of 32 Basque whalers in Iceland.