María Sigurðardóttir

While collecting material for his thesis, a master’s student interviews two elderly sisters who have been living together in the same old house their entire lives. But as the young man begins to speak with the seemingly normal pair, he soon discovers that there’s much more to their story than meets the eye.

Durante o inverno de 1984, um barco pesqueiro naufraga no Atlântico Norte, nas proximidades da Islândia. Os tripulantes tentam sobreviver, mas as águas geladas impedem que essa tarefa seja facilmente concluída, restando apenas Gulli (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), um homem bom, de fé, querido por todos, e com uma vontade de viver inacreditável. Após nadar por cerca de seis horas e enfrentar vários percalços, ele consegue contato com a civilização. Após a incrível experiência vivida, Gulli terá ainda que viver com a dor da perda dos amigos e, pior, a incredulidade de todos, que não entendem ele ter sobrevivido a uma situação tão extrema e insistem em fazer testes para saber como isso pode ter acontecido. Baseado em fatos reais.

Regína is 10 years old. Her mother, Margrét, works at a home for the elderly and her father is dead. The story begins one sunny summer morning when kids are leaving for the summer camp and Regína has been told she cannot go. While alone at home killing time she discovers her gift, which is hypnotizing singing. Her friend Pétur shows his talent for finding words that rhyme and together they increase the power of singing.

The staff at the bureau of values may be the greatest bureaucrats in the world, but they have the most colourful dreams, not to mention their nightmare Rosie, is like a breath of fresh air when she comes into the office just before closing-time, raising everybody’s spirits. Live action and animation combined in a comedy.

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 young widow moves from abroad to an isolated farm in Iceland.