Valdís Óskarsdóttir

Un padre de familia vive una doble vida como falsificador, ladrón de bancos y estafador para mantener a su hija.

After having witnessed her father's brutal murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother fled their war-torn homeland and settled in Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving time in a psych ward for murdering her boyfriend, a crime she can't remember. But when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Alma decides to escape and kill him after all.

Unable to face the mother who left her at a young age, BRYNJA (40) takes shelter in a small guesthouse in a village outside Reykjavik. There she befriends MARK (50), a British tourist, who's dealing with his own personal tragedy.

Narra la tragedia del submarino nuclear ruso 2000 K-141 Kursk ocurrida en agosto del año 2000, y la negligencia gubernamental que le siguió. Mientras los marineros luchan por sobrevivir, sus familias luchan desesperadamente contra los obstáculos políticos y las ínfimas probabilidades de salvarles.

This film explores the five different Icelandic national costumes, including their meaning for people in earlier times and the influence they continue to have on contemporary Icelandic artists and designers.

Hubert is a shy and introverted graphic designer who hasn't been too successful when approaching women. When he falls in love with Hanna, he tries to impress her by resorting to mimicking his boss, a notorious womanizer. This tactic works as an ice-breaker, but soon things get out of control, with unforeseen consequences.

A beautiful dancer hangs on the razor's edge between reality and fantasy as she asks her friends to help her figure out the passions and relationships that have shaped who they are and who they will become.

La historia tiene lugar en el entorno surrealista de una ciudad que se desvanece. Cuando un adolescente descubre un camino secreto hacia una ciudad subacuática, su madre se ve arrastrada a un macabro submundo de fantasía.

Sub Rosa observes the 8 year old Tilda, she lives with her grandmother who runs a flower shop. The young girl roams around freely and discovers a world of indecent activities lurking behind the flower store walls.

Estamos en 1970. Black Sabbath acaba de grabar su primer disco, lo que marca el nacimiento del Heavy Metal. Al mismo tiempo nace Hera Karlsdottir, en el suelo de la granja en la que viven sus padres. Hera Karlsdottir es una chica que sufre por su propia incapacidad para dirigir su vida. Encuentra consuelo en el Heavy Metal y sueña con convertirse en una estrella de rock.

Ex-family man, avid womanizer, heavy-drinking, parliamentarian, Leifur, is forced to go into rehab by his political rival, following a well publicized art exhibition brawl. Full of denial, Leifur throws a party before checking in, but when it´s time to leave – very few do, turning the night into an adventure exclusively for those old enough to vote.

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.

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.

After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.

After 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.

Dos hermanos a los que separó una tragedia familiar, cuando eran niños, siguen sufriendo hoy las secuelas y los traumas de una infancia triste y oscura: la vida de Nick gira en torno al alcohol y a la violencia; su hermano pequeño es padre soltero y se esfuerza todo lo posible para proporcionarle a su hijo una vida mejor.

Life has its way of being unpredictable. Small things have tendencies of becoming bigger then you expected. Some people don't see it until it's too late.

In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.

A couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.

Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) es un joven multimillonario que debe someterse a un transplante de corazón. Para ello, deja que su mejor amigo, el doctor Jack Harper (Terrence Howard), sea el encargado de realizar la operación. Durante la intervención, Clay experimenta un extraño fenómeno que le hace estar consciente y completamente paralizado mientras le operan. Mientras tanto, su novia, Sam (Jessica Alba) debe hacer frente a una serie de decisiones que serán determinantes para el futuro de Clay. Según transcurre la acción, todo da un vuelco, haciendo que nada sea lo que en principio parecía.

Narra la vida del legendario y tembile Genghis Khan desde su esclavitud hasta que conquistó la mitad del mundo, incluyendo Rusia en 1206. Una superproducción de corte épico que fue seleccionada por Kazajstán como candidata al Oscar a la mejor película de habla no inglesa.

El hijo pródigo de la ciudad, un cantante de ópera de fama mundial, vuelve a casa. Mientras tanto, Sebastian, un ayudante de cocina con un pie en el altar, cae rendido a los pies de Maria, la nueva asistenta. Los rumores que circulan sobre un posible parentesco entre el cantante de ópera y el ayudante de cocina ponen la ciudad patas arriba y amenazan con arruinar las grandes expectativas de todos y el triunfal regreso del cantante de ópera. (FILMAFFINITY)

Una mujer usa los servicios de una empresa para borrar de su memoria todo recuerdo de su ex pareja. Ofendido, el hombre intenta hacer lo mismo que ella, pero el proceso no sucede según lo esperado y el protagonista debe atravesar la gigantesca marea de recuerdos de su propio cerebro para recomponer las cosas.

A look at the work of director Michel Gondry, through his music videos, short films, and commercials.

Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.

John y su mujer Elena, una mundialmente famosa patinadora sobre hielo, están a punto de firmar los papeles del divorcio, pero cuando el mundo está a punto de sufrir un colapso cósmico, ambos se dan cuenta de que quizá merece la pena luchar por su amor.

El rico y anciano patriarca Thordur reúne a sus dispersos herederos en su remoto pueblo pesquero islandés para hablar sobre el futuro de la pesca familiar. Pero unir a todos desencadena una tormenta de oscuros secretos familiares reprimidos durante mucho tiempo.

Conocido en su barrio por su condición de huraño solitario,... Forrester es un hombre cuyo misterio y excentricidad son casi míticos. Cuando Jamal, un destacado estudiante negro, logra colarse en su apartamento con una cartera repleta de trabajos literarios, de manera inesperada e insólita, se establece entre ellos una relación altamente provechosa.

Julien es un esquizofrénico que trabaja como ayudante en una escuela para ciegos. Vive con su hermana Pearl, que está embarazada y que no quiere decir quién es el padre, su hermano Chris, su abuela y su dominante padre. La lucha interna del muchacho se va desarrollando a través de encuentros con otros singulares personajes que se cruzan en su vida.

Kresten vive en Copenhague, integrado en los círculos yuppies de la ciudad, con un brillante futuro, hasta que en su noche de bodas suena el teléfono. Una llamada lejana le informa de la muerte de su padre. Kresten se ve obligado a explicar la situación, ya que todo el mundo creía, incluida su esposa que no tenía ningún pariente cercano. Kresten regresa a la arruinada granja de su padre donde vive su hermano mayor, un hombre de aspecto desaliñado, solitario y con sus facultades mentales algo mermadas, lo que le impide valerse por sí mismo. Avergonzado al ver cómo irremediablemente va saliendo a la luz su pasado pueblerino, trata de mantener alejada a su mujer inventando una mentira tras otra.

Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance by William Heinesen, and set on an island in 1913. Pétur (Gunnar Helgason) narrates, recalling the days when mainlanders arrived for a wedding. Flirtatious Sirsa (Pálína Jónsdottir) marries Harald (Dofri Hermannsson), son of a wealthy landowner on the island. Offshore, a ship is sinking, so the men form a rescue party, returning with the captain, the engineer, and several sailors. With a storm gathering, the engineer dies. The clergyman requests an end to the festivities as a mark of respect. Sirsa protests, but her new husband brings the celebration to a halt. The group then fragments into different activities, drunken or otherwise, and the sensual Sirsa directs her attention toward the handsome Ívar (Baldur Trausti Hreinsson). The film's score features traditional folk music.

Los Klingenfeldt, una familia de la alta burguesía danesa, se disponen a celebrar el sesenta cumpleaños del patriarca, un hombre de trayectoria y reputación intachable. Sin embargo, sus tres hijos, aunque muy diferentes entre sí, están dispuestos a aprovechar la ocasión para sacar a relucir los trapos sucios de la familia.

Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. But she doesn't have good memories of romance. The third of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.

The two medicated low-lifes Carsten and Peter are long time partners, an old flame of Peter's turns up to tell him that he has a twelve year old daughter, whom he should present himself to. Her adoptive father is a mean bastard, and incestive undertones lies in the relationship between the two. The daughter escapes from her adoptive father, turns up at Peter's place, and Carsten, Peter, and the daughter escapes to Sweden.

Svend Aage is an aging prisoner. His son, Max, is doing well in the world "outside" - or so Svend Aage's wife tells him - and is quite unaware that his father is in jail. One day, a new inmate arrives at the gates to serve the most severe sentence ever handed out for violence and drug-related crime. It's Max.

The smell of leather, whiskey and cigars: Two young girlfriends fall in love with the same man, an adventurous young businessman. Missing, forged documents wreak havoc on the lives of everyone involved.