Gunnar Helgason

A group of friends goes on their annual salmon fishing trip to relax in the countryside. The newcomers in the group really try their hand at endurance and the tour goes quickly and safely into the sink out of new and old sins.

Cada año, en una gran isla a las afueras de Islandia, hay un gran torneo de fútbol para niños. Jón, de diez años, y su equipo van a competir, pero tendrá que crecer más rápido de lo esperado, tanto dentro como fuera del campo.

A story that follows Salóme, a young woman in Reykjavík, who lives with her best friend and on/off-boyfriend, Hrafn. Everything changes when Hrafn gets another girl pregnant and she moves in with them.

Una joven pareja estadounidense pasa una estancia romántica en Islandia. Al despertar, se dan cuenta de que la humanidad ha desaparecido de la faz de la Tierra. Tendrán que sobrevivir en medio de esta misteriosa situación a la vez que reconsideran todo lo que saben sobre ellos mismos y acerca del mundo.

A college student begins working as a cam girl, with support from her best friend.

Remake de "La vida secreta de Walter Mitty", película estrenada en 1947 y que fue dirigida por Norman Z. McLeod. La historia se basaba en un relato de James Thurber que giraba en torno al tímido empleado de una editorial que consigue evadirse de su gris existencia imaginando que es el héroe de grandes aventuras; un día, su sueño se hace realidad cuando conoce a una misteriosa mujer que le implica en una peligrosa misión.

The time is 20 years and a few months to the millennium, and the unrecognized, self-proclaimed genius Orm Odins has to deal with the age-old existentialist dilemma that is teenage hood. With his final exams looming, his hormones in overdrive and love just around the corner what can a great poet do to survive? Our setting is Reykjavik in the eighties, a city that is going through a growth spur not unlike our eloquent hero. The mullet is just about to put its mark on a unsuspecting generation, there is no TV on Thursdays, only one radio station, beer is still and outlawed commodity and somewhere within the city limits the first female president in the world will see has a dream.

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.

Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.

1999's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year.

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.