Lili has left everything behind to travel to the edge of the earth and accomplish her dream, fishing the Northern seas. She persuades Ian, the captain of a trawler by the name of Rebel, to give her a chance and let her join the crew. The only woman on board, they call her Sparrow. Hidden behind a frail appearance is a will of steel, and her courage and determination ultimately win over their respect. Adopted into this world of often unfortunate individuals, Lili will conquer her right to live differently, free. Debut film.
Vidar
The story is centered on the stubborn farmer Ernst and his wife Louise who are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a traditional Danish gold wedding for friends and family. However, the family carries several secrets and Ernest holds on to the biggest one of them all. Through one long joyous, intoxicating, surprising, gripping and melancholic night, the truths creep out and the family is put to the ultimate test.
Driver
En Islandia, las vidas de dos mujeres se cruzan mientras ambas están atrapadas en circunstancias imprevistas. Una es una madre islandesa en apuros, la otra una solicitante de asilo de Guinea-Bissau. Entre ambas se formará un delicado vínculo.
Bobby
Grímur
En un remoto valle de Islandia, dos hermanos que no se hablan desde hace más de cuarenta años deberán unir fuerzas para salvar su bien más preciado: su rebaño de carneros.
Fúsi
A sus 43 años, Fúsi es un inadaptado, con sobrepeso, que nunca tuvo novia y cuyo único interés son las batallas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que reproduce en miniatura en el apartamento en el que vive con su madre. Un día recibe un cupón para acudir una escuela de baile, donde conoce a Sjöfn, una mujer solitaria, como él, y con profundas heridas psicológicas.
Nurse
A young man has to go to the hospital for an operation. Upon his arrival he watches paramedics roll out a deceased person from the hospital room he is about to be checked in to. Lying in bed with nothing to do his mind starts to wander. He strikes up a conversation about life with an old man who paints a rather dark picture of what can happen during one’s stay in a hospital. The old man shares his ironic philosophy on life, causing him great anxiety. Will he make it out alive?
Steini
The film revolves around Hildur, a national celebrity and socialite who has to look for a job when her boyfriend Jolli is sent to prison. She finds a job at Astrópía, a store that sells role playing books and her immersion into geek culture changes her outlook on life.
To start with we are led to believe the setting is a country-hotel of some sort. In the end we discover this is a State Rehabilitation Facility and everything that happens is a carefully orchestrated escape plot by some of the inmates. The film was shot on location at an isolated boarding school in Saelingsdalur in the west of Iceland. The school is used as a hotel during the summer months but the film takes place in the wintertime.
A streetsweeper finds a unconscious woman while cleaning the streets and decides to help her out by bringing her to his home, but little does he know that the woman is lives a life of crime.
Erik's Retainer
Los noruegos arrasan un poblado de Islandia pero uno de ellos se apiada de un niño. Transcurrido el tiempo el niño se hace hombre y busca venganza. Primera entrega de la "Trilogía de los Vikingos" dirigida por Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, inspirada en el western y el cine de samuráis; de hecho es un remake libre de "Por un puñado de dólares", quien a su vez era una versión del clásico "Yojimbo", de Akira Kurosawa.
