Stefanía Thors

The School of Housewives is a documentary film about the self-image of the Icelandic housewife and how the role of this school has changed over the years. In the film, the past is reflected in interviews with senior students alongside old 16mm footage that show how important role the school played to expectant Icelandic housewives around the middle of the last century. At the same time, recent students are monitored showing how much change has taken place in the school, regarding the role of housewives today in terms of gender role and the basic values such as all kinds of efficiency, maintenance of clothing, protecting the environment and preventing food waste. The film is a unique contemporary documentary about the Reykjavík school of housewives, running since 1942 and still open for those students who are interested, despite the uncertainty about the future of the school and its possible imminent closure.

The School of Housewives is a documentary film about the self-image of the Icelandic housewife and how the role of this school has changed over the years. In the film, the past is reflected in interviews with senior students alongside old 16mm footage that show how important role the school played to expectant Icelandic housewives around the middle of the last century. At the same time, recent students are monitored showing how much change has taken place in the school, regarding the role of housewives today in terms of gender role and the basic values such as all kinds of efficiency, maintenance of clothing, protecting the environment and preventing food waste. The film is a unique contemporary documentary about the Reykjavík school of housewives, running since 1942 and still open for those students who are interested, despite the uncertainty about the future of the school and its possible imminent closure.

The School of Housewives is a documentary film about the self-image of the Icelandic housewife and how the role of this school has changed over the years. In the film, the past is reflected in interviews with senior students alongside old 16mm footage that show how important role the school played to expectant Icelandic housewives around the middle of the last century. At the same time, recent students are monitored showing how much change has taken place in the school, regarding the role of housewives today in terms of gender role and the basic values such as all kinds of efficiency, maintenance of clothing, protecting the environment and preventing food waste. The film is a unique contemporary documentary about the Reykjavík school of housewives, running since 1942 and still open for those students who are interested, despite the uncertainty about the future of the school and its possible imminent closure.

Óskar and Maggi are two brothers, longing for love but seemingly doomed to stay single. Óskar shies from relationships but is secretly in love with his childhood sweetheart Anna, engaged to another and safely out of reach. Maggi on the other hand is overly eager and goes from one relationship to another, hoping for eternal love each time. A film about the complexity of human relations and the searching for love.

Munda is a 70 year old priest who has to find herself again once she's suddenly made to renounce her priesthood.

Dora has been unemployed for some period of time and she and her family are therefore facing financial difficulties. One day she receives an unexpected offer to become temporary chef on a freezing trawler from Greenland. The ship will leave the port in an hour. She gives her husband and children a goodbye hug and goes on a fishing tour in the north Atlantic with a crew of 24 guys from Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland.

Dora has been unemployed for some period of time and she and her family are therefore facing financial difficulties. One day she receives an unexpected offer to become temporary chef on a freezing trawler from Greenland. The ship will leave the port in an hour. She gives her husband and children a goodbye hug and goes on a fishing tour in the north Atlantic with a crew of 24 guys from Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland.

An unhappy, single mother is suddenly reminded of where true happiness is to be found and given.

When politics and the power structure fail to embrace equal rights in the 1980s, women take matter into their own hands and permanently change how things are done, and the face of Icelandic society as a whole.

The small shop Verzlun H. Júlíusson in the town of Sauðárkrókur located in North Iceland. is not just a small grocery store but so much more. It is the last one of its kind in Iceland. Everyone entering the shop travels decades back in time. The 83 years old shopkeeper Bjarni Haraldsson sells a little bit of everything but hasn’t changed much in the store that was opened by his father in 1919. Most of the furniture in use dates back half a century as well as the old scales. One can buy everything from tea pots to packet soup, working pants and hinges to batteries, screws, and lollipops. Bjarni still serves customers, day by day. He chats a little bit with them and eventually goes hunting for something they might need.

Two lovers dance their story, united in space, divided in time.

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.

A father and his child wake up from a bad dream.

A documentary about the soil erosion in Iceland, the creation of the largest man made desert in Europe.

A festive horror short about a drunken Santa and his elf.

The battle of two great chess players to mentally overpower one another takes on a dimension of life-or-death physicality as their duel begins to echo with the violent sounds of warfare from centuries past.

After taking over the local radio station in a small town a young man soon discovers that he is living in an other mans existence which stretches beyond life and death.

The comedy Our Own Oslo is an everyday love story. We follow the strained courtship of the wildly differing Harald, forty year old engineer and Vilborg, an unemployed single mother. They are both tangled up in their own pasts and their attempts at love end in disaster.

Maya and Renata are childhood friends that haven't seen each other for 10 years, but a coincidental meeting leads them to going out into the country together and visit their old school with their boyfriends.

The Rabbit Hole is a surreal fable that features a young girl traveling through beautiful terrain full of strange and bizarre creatures.