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...

O sonho deles é participar da maior competição de música do mundo. Mas intrigas de rivais e acidentes no palco vão testar a relação entre esses dois.

Um homem viúvo embarca relutante em uma viagem para honrar o último desejo de sua esposa e cumprir sua promessa de levar seu filho, de quem está distanciado.

Numa aguardada viagem à Europa, um policial de Nova York e sua esposa cabeleireira tentam solucionar um caso de assassinato a bordo do iate de um bilionário.

Em uma ilha desabitada, a 20 milhas da costa escocesa, três guardas de faróis chegam para um turno de seis semanas. À medida que Thomas (Scot Peter Mullan), James (Gerard Butler) e Donald (Connor Swindells) se instalam em suas rotinas habituais e solitárias, algo inesperado acontece: eles tropeçam em algo que não é seu e que não sabem de onde veio. Com a presença desse objeto vem o início de uma luta pela sobrevivência. Aos poucos, os três homens são conduzidos à destruição por meio da ganância pessoal aliada ao isolamento e à paranoia.

Decidido a fazer de Berk um verdadeiro libelo ao ideal da convivência pacífica entre homens e dragões, Soluço e seus amigos seguem atrás de caçadores, para não só libertar suas presas mas também impedir a matança desenfreada dos animais. O esforço do grupo desperta a atenção de Grimmel ao descobrir que entre eles está Banguela, um legítimo Fúria da Noite. O vilão então desenvolve um plano para capturá-lo a todo custo, usando como arma uma fêmea capturada, da mesma espécie.

Depois que o poderoso bruxo das trevas Gellert Grindelwald se liberta, Newt Scamander é chamado em Hogwarts pelo professor Albus Dumbledore mais uma vez. Enfrentando perigos inesperados, Newt precisa encontrar uma maneira de impedir Grindelwald de seguir com seu plano que ameaça dividir todo o mundo bruxo: fazer com que apenas os bruxos de sangue puro comandem os seres não mágicos.

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.

Na fossa mais profunda do Oceano Pacífico, a tripulação de um submarino fica presa dentro do local após ser atacada por uma criatura pré-histórica que se achava estar extinta, um tubarão de mais de 20 metros de comprimento, o Megalodon. Para salvá-los, um oceanógrafo chinês contrata Jonas Taylor, um mergulhador especializado em resgates em água profundas que já encontrou com a criatura anteriormente.

Audrey e Morgan, duas melhores amigas de trinta anos que vivem em Los Angeles são empurradas inesperadamente para uma conspiração internacional quando o ex-namorado de Audrey aparece em seu apartamento com uma equipe de assassinos. Surpreendendo a si próprias, a dupla entra em ação e percorre toda a Europa fugindo de assassinos e um agente britânico suspeito, mas charmoso, enquanto traçam um plano para salvar o mundo.

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.

No filme Dr. Marcus, um psiquiatra de renome, selecionou seis doentes mentais perigosos para uma entrevista como parte da pesquisa do seu novo livro. Um por um começam a relatar os horrores que cometeram, mas, no entanto, Dr. Marcus logo descobre que há um paciente que une todas eles - o Paciente Sete.

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.

Sofia é uma menina órfã que vive em um orfanato. Uma noite, em plena Hora das Bruxas, ela é raptada por um gigante orelhudo que a descobriu espiando pela janela. Mas Sofia logo descobriu que ela não precisava ter medo daquele gigante, que era amigável e tinha como função soprar sonhos nas janelas das crianças. Ao lado dele, ela bola um plano para acabar com os gigantes maus, que adoram devorar "serumanos". Um plano que envolve pesadelos terríveis e a rainha da Inglaterra.

Depois que uma série de celebridades é assassinada, a agente policial e ex-modelo de biquíni Valentina Valencia (Penélope Cruz) busca o ex-supermodelo Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) para ajudá-la a solucionar os casos. Porém, aposentado, assim como o ex-companheiro de passarela Hansel (Owen Wilson), ele está desaparecido – e se ressente por não ter mais contato com o filho, agora adolescente. Até que a convite de Alexanya Atoz (Kristen Wiig) dona da marca mais badalada da atualidade, eles acabam topando fazer um novo desfile. Mal sabem os desmiolados, no entanto, que tudo não passa de um plano maquiavélico comandado por Mugatu (Will Ferrell).

The lives of two sisters change forever one winter morning.

Amaldiçoado com a imortalidade, o caçador de bruxas Kaulder é obrigado a enfrentar mais uma vez sua maior inimiga e unir forças com a jovem bruxa Chloe para impedir que uma convenção espalhe uma terrível praga pela cidade.

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.

Nova York. Matt Scudder é um ex-policial que agora trabalha como investigador privado, muitas vezes agindo fora da lei. Com uma certa relutância, ele aceita ajudar um traficante de drogas que está atrás do homem que sequestrou e matou sua esposa. Não demora muito para que Matt descubra que o procurado já havia cometido este tipo de crime.

Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) é o responsável pelo departamento de arquivo e revelação de fotografias da tradicional revista Life. Ele é um homem tímido, levando uma vida simples, perdido em seus sonhos. Ao receber um pacote com negativos do importante fotógrafo Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn), ele percebe que está faltando uma foto. O problema é que trata-se justamente da foto escolhida para ser a capa da última edição da revista. É quando, Walter, com o apoio de Cheryl (Kristen Wiig) é obrigado a embarcar em uma verdadeira aventura.

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.

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.

Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) já tinha largado a vida de contrabandista, mas Andy (Caleb Jones), o irmão de sua esposa Kate (Kate Beckinsale), se meteu numa jogada e perdeu a mercadoria. Agora, ele precisa voltar à ativa para recuperar o prejuízo porque Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi) e seus capangas, começam a ameaçar sua esposa e a família. Começa então um forte pressão e Chris vai precisar de toda a sua experiência e contatos para vencer essa corrida contra o relógio e pagar uma dívida de milhões de dólares.

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.

Kristofer está preso em uma tediosa rotina trabalhando como guarda de segurança de um navio cargueiro. Um dia ele é detido ao ser pego roubando garrafas de bebida. Passando por problemas financeiros, Kristofer é seduzido pela oportunidade de ganhar dinheiro rápido quando um velho amigo, Steingrímur, lhe garante os meios de voltar ao seu antigo trabalho. É quando Kristofer inicia uma onda de roubos em Rotterdam.

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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Escandinávia, 500 D.C.. O sentimento de ódio tem início quando o rei Hrothgar, junto com alguns guerreiros, mata o pai do jovem Grendel, que viu tudo. Mesmo assim Hrothgar decidiu poupar a criança, que através dos anos se torna um recluso guerreiro, que só pensa em vingar a morte do pai. Quando Grendel começa a matar, as pessoas mais próximas de Hrothgar vêem que a vida do rei está em perigo. Assim Hrothgar chama um bravo e destemido guerreiro, Beowulf, para matar Grendel.

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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Hlynur, de 30 anos, ainda vive com sua mãe e passa seus dias bebendo, assistindo pornografia e navegando na Internet enquanto vive de cheques de desemprego. Uma garota está interessada nele, mas ele se afasta do compromisso. A professora de flamenco espanhola de sua mãe, Lola, vai morar com eles no Natal. Na véspera de Ano Novo, enquanto sua mãe está fora, Hlynur descobre que Lola é lésbica, mas também acaba fazendo sexo com ela. Hlynur logo descobre que ela e sua mãe estão compartilhando mais do que uma casa. Eventualmente, ele deve descobrir onde se encaixa no quebra-cabeça e como viver a vida menos egoisticamente.

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.