Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

In 1945, a German bomber crash-lands in Iceland during a blizzard. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. Flash forward to the present. The U.S. Army is clandestinely trying to remove the wreck of an airplane from an Icelandic glacier. A young Icelander, Elías, inadvertently stumbles upon the excavation and then promptly disappears. But before he vanishes, he manages to contact his sister, Kristín. She embarks on a thrilling and perilous adventure, determined to discover the truth of her brother's fate

The village is brimming with stories and if you listen closely it might tell you a few. Perhaps the one about the businessman who dreams in Latin, or the one about the delicate boy who carves moorland birds, or maybe the one of the open-air sexual affair that has explosive consequences.

The village is brimming with stories and if you listen closely it might tell you a few. Perhaps the one about the businessman who dreams in Latin, or the one about the delicate boy who carves moorland birds, or maybe the one of the open-air sexual affair that has explosive consequences.

A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of his mother and his new friend, he manages to find his own path.

A soldier, which army, which era, unclear. What’s clear is the evil he’s done. Faced with his impending mortality, he fears being judged in the afterlife. Only immortality will do. He meets a talking rock who promises just that - but he’ll first have to face his fiendish deeds...

世界最大級の歌合戦に出場するチャンスを手にした小さな町のデュオ。だが有力なライバルや邪魔者、舞台での思わぬ出来事が、夢をかなえたい2人の行く手を阻む。

Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.

ニューヨークで働く警官の男とその妻が、15年越しの新婚旅行を計画。目的地へ向かう機内で、彼らはとある大富豪と知り合い、ヨットに招待される。しかしその船内で殺人事件が起き、夫婦は容疑者になってしまう。

スコットランド沖のフラナン諸島。絶海に浮かぶ無人島アイリーン・モア島に、３人の灯台守がやって来る。これから６週間、寒風吹き荒ぶこの島で灯台をともし続けるのが彼らの仕事だ。メンバーは、灯台守を２５年続けているベテランのトマス、短気で粗暴な大男のジェームズ、まだ新米の若者ドナルド。 ３人の静かで退屈な日々は、嵐の夜の翌朝、破られることになる。ドナルドが、流れ着いたボートと漂流者を発見。崖下に降り、ボートに積まれていた木箱を引き上げようとしていると、死んでいると思っていた漂流者が突然襲いかかってくる。身を護るため必死で抵抗したドナルドは、逆に漂流者を殺してしまった。そして木箱を開けてみると、中には金塊がぎっしりと詰められていたのだ。 思わぬ成り行きに動揺する３人の脳裏に、ドス黒い欲望が沸き上がってくる。死体を処分して、何も無かったことにすれば、金塊は自分たちの物になる……。だが３人のそんな想いをあざ笑うように、島にロックとボラという男たちが現れる。あの漂流者と木箱を探していた２人は、トマスたちの嘘を見破り、凶暴な正体をむき出しにする。血みどろの戦いの果て、気がつくと３人の前には、ロックたちの死体が転がっていた……。 死体を海に捨て、すべては片付いたはずだった。だが、誰もが罪の意識に怯え、男たちの精神状態は限界に達してゆく。幻覚に追い立てられ、狂ったように暴れるジェームズ。疑心暗鬼は深まり、仲間だった３人は敵同士となり、自分だけが助かろうとあがきはじめる。そして遂に、破滅の時は訪れた……。

敵対していたドラゴンと人間は、臆病者のバイキングの少年ヒックと傷を負ったドラゴンのトゥースの奮闘により共に生きる道を選ぶ。彼らはバーク島で平和に過ごしていたが、ドラゴンが増え過ぎて島がパンク状態になる。今は亡き父の後継者となり、若きリーダーに育ったヒックは島を出てドラゴンたちと新しい世界を探すことを決意する。

アメリカからイギリスに戻ってきたニュートは、アメリカ合衆国魔法議会が捕らえた強大な魔法使いグリンデルバルドが逃げ出したことを知る。恩師のダンブルドアから特命を受け、パリに向かったニュートは、仲間の魔法生物たちとともにグリンデンバルドの行方を追う。

When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross again, and a reckoning between them becomes unavoidable.

大陸から２００キロ離れた海洋研究施設から、潜水した探査船が未知の海溝を発見。しかし、喜びもつかの間、船は未知の海域で消息を絶った。潜水レスキューのプロ、ジョナス・テイラーは、救助に向かった先で、生物学の常識を超えた“モンスター”＝MEGと遭遇。しかし、その恐怖は単なる始まりに過ぎなかった。船を破壊し、研究施設を壊滅させたMEGは、陽光まばゆいビーチをも恐怖に陥れようとしている。ジョナス率いる海洋エキスパート・チームは、この危機をどう乗り切るのか。

30年来の親友同士、お互いを知り尽くすオードリーとモーガン。 彼氏のドリューから一方的に音信不通にされたオードリーのもとに、ある日イケメン青年が現れ、ドリューはCIAのスパイだと打ち明けられる。ドリューの正体に驚きを隠せないオードリーだが、荷物を取りに来たと突然ドリューが現れるも、「誰も信じるな」という言葉と記念トロフィーを残して射殺される。オードリーとモーガンはドリューの言葉を信じるも、迫りくる様々な追手が行く手を阻む。ドタバタ・スパイコメディの超話題作！

Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.

The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.

A single father wants to fulfil his young daughter's wish to throw a slumber party for her friends, but it turns out to be more of a challenge than he thought due to the rules of modern society.

10歳の女の子ソフィーは、ロンドンの児童養護施設で生活していた。寝付きの悪いソフィーが窓から夜の街を見ていると、身長約7メートルの巨人が出現し、彼女を巨人の国へ連れていく。巨人の名はBFG：ビッグ・フレンドリー・ジャイアント。優しいBFGに、ソフィーは心を許すようになる。そして、子供たちに夢を吹き込む仕事をしているBFGと一緒に、ソフィーは夢の国へと向かう。

世界的セレブが次々に暗殺される事件が発生した。インターポールの捜査官ヴァレンティーナは、犠牲者たちが残した写真が人気モデルだったズーランダーの決め顔と似ていることに気づき、引退し山奥で暮らしていたズーランダーに接触する。捜査協力を求められたズーランダーは、生き別れになった息子を捜すことを条件にして承諾する。

The lives of two sisters change forever one winter morning.

The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.

A film inspired by real events in the Icelandic underworld. A young man has a one night stand with the former girlfriend of a violent criminal and is kidnapped by said criminal and his gang in an effort to blackmail him. When that doesn't work they decide to bring him to the countryside to the home of an old friend. There they proceed to torture the poor man...

A boy from a small town has never kissed a girl. One day he and his friends decide to go to the 'big city' to see if they have more luck there. In the city, the boys get much more than they bargained for.

ローレンス・ブロックの小説をリーアム・ニーソン主演で映画化したサスペンス・ミステリー。NY市警の元刑事である私立探偵が少女を救うべく、麻薬関係者の身内ばかりを狙う史上最悪の猟奇殺人鬼との交渉に挑む。

雑誌「LIFE」の写真管理部で働くウォルター・ミティは、思いを寄せる女性と会話もできない臆病者。唯一の特技は妄想することだった。ある日、「LIFE」表紙に使用する写真のネガが見当たらない気付いたウォルターはカメラマンを捜す旅へ出る。ニューヨークからグリーンランド、アイスランド、ヒマラヤへと奇想天外な旅がウォルターの人生を変えていく。

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.

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.

The film follows the brave attempts of two men to be the first Icelander to swim the English Channel, the Mount Everest of swimmers, their failures and eventually the success of one of them. Interwoven with the story of the amazing endurance of these two men, is the history of swimming in Iceland and in particular the long and hard struggle to re-introduce the skill after it had been almost totally lost to this seafaring nation. By the 19th century it is reckoned that in the whole of Iceland no more than 6 individuals of a population of 50.000, knew how to swim. With references to the ancient Icelandic sages, we learn through staged scenes how a local hero took on and defeated the Norwegian kin in a bout of the popular Viking sport of sea wrestling and how a mother fled after her husband was viciously killed, swimming to land with her two children.

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.

愛する家族のために裏社会から足を洗った伝説の運び屋・クリス。だが義弟が麻薬密輸に失敗。忍び寄る危険から家族を守るため、再び裏稼業に手を染めることに。

What lengths does a man go to hold on to love.

The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.

Erik likes to have a drink once in a while. The day after a good party, sitting with his girlfriend having a chat, he meets people he doesn't remember. Has he arrived at a crossroads? Is Erik in deeper trouble than usual?

Erik likes to have a drink once in a while. The day after a good party, sitting with his girlfriend having a chat, he meets people he doesn't remember. Has he arrived at a crossroads? Is Erik in deeper trouble than usual?

The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this routine is shaken to its foundation when one of the most solid crew members commits suicide. To fill his gap, a young woman takes his place on the next tour and gradually the fragile balance is tipped, and personal issues that should be left on the mainland cause dangerous friction between the crew members

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.

Epic Fail is based on true events that happened in Reykjavik, Iceland not so long ago. It is a 14 minute short film about a guy that finds himself in extraordinary situations and has to take matters into his own hands and put his trust in strangers that under normal circumstances, he never would have met and for sure never talked to. But when people find themselves in a situation and have to ask strangers for help then interesting things happen and we see that we are not so different after all and we should not judge the book by its cover.

A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events occur.

Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?

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.

The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. Einar is a stockbroker who is very successful at work but not in his personal life. For the last couple of months Einar has been living at a hotel waiting for his wife to realize the terrible mistake she made by throwing him out. Katrin Rose returns from Sweden where she has lived for eight years. In Iceland Katrin has an eleven-year-old son, brought up by his grandmother and now Katrin wants him back. Katrin gets a job as a dentist's assistant intending to make a fresh start but her troubled past catches up with her.

Icelandic writer-director Ragnar Bragason's dark, brooding ensemble drama Börn (AKA Children) follows the entangled lives of a group of lower-rung citizens of Reykjavik as they struggle to just barely keep their heads above water, but all too often succeed in spiritually drowning, through a constant stream of poor decisions.

Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 year old boy named Örn. On coincidense Pétur finds out that he is not Örn's biological father.

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The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.

A short film about how everything that can go wrong goes so bad that going wrong takes on a new meaning.

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Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.

Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.

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.

A band's and their crew's miscommunication leading them to being on the opposite sides of the country leads to comic consequences.

Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two have quarreled. Marta can't abide mom's rebellion or the rival bakery's success, so she inveigles Finnbogi to invest in porn toys without telling Lisa. Where does he get the cash? From his son Bjartmar, who has promised Russian sailors he'll arrange the purchase of ten Landas. The Russians are coming to collect their cars, Finnbogi hasn't sold a single dildo, hard-bitten Marta plans one more nasty trick. How can Lisa get her cruise?

The film tells the tale of a man named Kalli, a scruffy looking 30 year old, that lives in his brother’s garage. As he wakes up hung-over on the morning of his birthday. He finds to his surprise an over sized box in his living room. Inside the box is a very unusual birthday present from his brother Teitur. As Kalli opens the box, he discovers that the gift is a woman from East-Europe, that was mailed to him. As Kalli struggles to convince his brother that giving someone a mail-order bride on their birthday is not the right thing to do, he realizes what a sociopath his brother really is. And though he doesn’t want to admit it to himself, he too has some serious women issues and does not respect them as human beings. In the end the film shows how so many men treat women like objects. Although the film deals with serious issues it does so in a light and absurd way so the laughs are plenty and never far between.

The film tells the tale of a man named Kalli, a scruffy looking 30 year old, that lives in his brother’s garage. As he wakes up hung-over on the morning of his birthday. He finds to his surprise an over sized box in his living room. Inside the box is a very unusual birthday present from his brother Teitur. As Kalli opens the box, he discovers that the gift is a woman from East-Europe, that was mailed to him. As Kalli struggles to convince his brother that giving someone a mail-order bride on their birthday is not the right thing to do, he realizes what a sociopath his brother really is. And though he doesn’t want to admit it to himself, he too has some serious women issues and does not respect them as human beings. In the end the film shows how so many men treat women like objects. Although the film deals with serious issues it does so in a light and absurd way so the laughs are plenty and never far between.

Guti (35, Slovenian) and Sig (50, Icelander) wake up naked and handcuffed to one another on a riverbank near Ljubljana. Sig suffers from memory loss, while Guti recalls a fight with skinheads Sid drunkenly participated in and Guti tried peacefully to intervene in. Sig has no passport or any clue about his identity—the skinheads have taken everything he owned. Guti is trying to build a new home for himself on a river raft after losing his house to the bank and his life to his ex-wife. He introduces Sig to his friends—suburban misfits, who remind Sig of a legend of the hidden people.

Bavaria, 1812. A lovelorn young poet banished from society is forced to wander across mountains, ice and snow, on a dangerous journey which will either lead him to death or to a new life.