Björn Karlsson

On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven men on board, five lived. This is the remarkable story of the heroic rescue mission that brought them home.

37년 전 화산폭발로 천직을 잃고 고향을 떠난 하네스. 은퇴식까지 마친 그의 가슴에는 지나온 세월의 무상함과 남은 삶에 대한 공허함이 물밀듯이 몰려온다. 삶의 의욕을 잃어버린 그는 가족들 앞에서도 늘 화난 표정으로 사사건건 성질만 낸다. 그러던 어느 날, 우연히 듣게 된 자식들의 대화에 큰 충격을 받은 그는 이를 계기로 삶에 변화를 주기로 결심한다. 하지만 모처럼 아내가 좋아하는 넙치 수프를 준비해 함께 저녁식사를 하던 중, 그의 인생을 송두리째 뒤흔들 또 한번의 화산폭발이 있어난다. 과연 그는 잃어버린 삶의 가치와 소중한 사랑 모두를 지킬 수 있을까?

Victor is the story of a conscientious if somewhat withdrawn traffic warden who through a series of mishaps finally finds his place in life. While the setting is unusual the film addresses a wide range of emotions and morality; Love, deceit, frustrated longings and human dignity. Victor, the eponymous hero of the film, is torn between his desire for the supermodel Kate le Font and the genuine affection of his co-worker Herdis. Victor's story comes to a head when a crooked traffic warden accuses him to hide his own crimes. With Herdis' help our hero narrowly avoids disaster. In a surprisingly complex plot, the film illustrates the dangers of repressed emotions, the liberating power of love and the ultimate triumph of good. All this takes place within the microcosmic context of the traffic warden's world which becomes a reflection of all human drama.

A story of a ten year old girl, Erla, who finds a flute nobody else can hear and meets a boy nobody else can see. The boy turns out to be an elf who tells her that a spell has been cast on her father. Much to Erla's horror, her father is turned to stone when he's moving rocks around in the park, looking for worms. Erla's new found friend is the only one who can guide her on a search for a magic egg possessed by the big trolls in the mountains and said to be the only remedy for people who have been turned to stone.

This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.

A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.

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

Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and think about himself, his life and his family. If his life is going to end sooner than he expected, he wants to know how much it's been worth to him. Has life been worth living? Is it worth fighting for; is it worth a struggle against death? He takes a look at his family, a group of ordinary people, who are the colourful heroes of everyday life, struggling along in a world far removed from the world of high finance, power politics and international intrigues, but yet to them their lives are lives of high adventure. Those adventures, from the sublime to the ridiculous, form the storyline of the film, told against the background of Magnús' dilemma.

Tommi and his half brother Kiddi travel through Iceland with a money transport. A reunion develops into a nightmare after picking up the hitch-hiker Lísa.

The film is about a little boy, living in the centre of Reykjavík during the first years of Second World War. While poverty is still a fact of life, the business of war slowly begins to affect people's lives. Gradually, the terrors of war filter through into the young boy's mind.

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.