Director
This is the story of the ’68 generation in Iceland. Icelanders who participated in the turmoil that characterized this period tell of their experiences, their backgrounds, and explain why thousands of young people fought for their values in defiance of the prevailing attitudes of previous generations.
Benni eldri
An elderly man goes about his daily routine until his grandson shows up and is eager to play football with him. Their mismatch on the football pitch is quickly apparent, with the youngster running rings around his senior. The old man with a bruised ego and full of reminiscence of his youth begins to prepare for their next encounter.
The job of a prisonguard is a strange one; they work on the border of free society and prison. This documentary follows the lives of the prisonguards as they do their job of guarding the prisoners.
Uggi
Two lifelong friends find their small-town routine thrown into peril when a buxom and beautiful woman their own age shows up in their hot tub.
Screenplay
In 1967 Sigurður Skúlason acted in his first film - the short Paradox - but it was never finished due to the primitive state that filmmaking in Iceland was at the time. But the memory of the film haunted Sigurður for years, and now almost fifty years later, the film is finished.
Director
In 1967 Sigurður Skúlason acted in his first film - the short Paradox - but it was never finished due to the primitive state that filmmaking in Iceland was at the time. But the memory of the film haunted Sigurður for years, and now almost fifty years later, the film is finished.
Faust's Father
Séc. XIX. Heinrich Faust é um filósofo e alquimista que vive frustrado pelas limitações do conhecimento humano. Tudo o que mais anseia é conhecer a natureza do mundo e o verdadeiro sentido da vida. Até que conhece Moneylender, que lhe dá a conhecer um lado mais obscuro e sórdido da realidade. É então que o seu novo amigo lhe propõe algo irrecusável: a sua alma em troca do amor de Margarete, a mulher que Faust deseja. E, claro, o conhecimento supremo.
Guðrún is a ten year old girl. One day at school she is called in to the principal´s office. The principal informs her that her S.U.V. burnet to the ground earlier that same morning. While Guðrún spends recess trying to figure out what the principal had meant, an investigation on the alleged arson is taking place and Guðrún is the main suspect.
Some people have to live their lives on a constant look out for snakes. Some even have to wear boots all the time. But people in Iceland have the privilege of just wearing whatever shoes they want – without any worries.
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Lárus
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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Eirikur
O jogador de futebol Thor, um verdadeiro astro de seu time, empolga-se com a vitória em um jogo e numa entrevista, acaba assumindo ser gay. Dá para se ter uma idéia da confusão que isso gera na família do rapaz, que é casado com uma ex-Miss Islândia, tem um filho na problemática fase da adolescência e como não se bastasse, seu pai machista é o técnico de seu time.
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Oddur
Dís, 23, is still to decide what to do with her life. Obsessed by the thought of being "abnormally normal", a mere photocopy of long lost original, she wanders from one odd job to another and tries out various cources at the University. A guiding light comes her way from an unexpected direction.
Postman
An Oscar nominated Icelandic short film about an old man who might leave his farm but keeps a secret.
Haraldur
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
Kids/teenagers/grown-ups from the age 14-16 growing up and finding out about what it all includes. Does the relationship with your parents always have to be difficult? Does love come by itself? A story of teenagers realizing themselves and others.
Jói Betu
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
A tale of crime in the Kolaport
Gunnar owns a car sale where he works everyday, and even lives there along with his two sons, and his ex-girlfriend.
Swan is an old man from the country. He comes alone to the city to get medical treatment. But the city is not welcoming. Nobody wants to have anything to do with him. Then he discovers that it might have to do with his clothes - if he just had clothes like those gentlemen he sees in the streets.
Karl
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.
A man isolates himself from his environment and finally disappears into a white wall in his home.
Bjössi, an eight year old living with his divorced mother reflects on the past when his father was still with them.
On a sunny summer day a Range Rover stumbles across the lava and moss down to lake Þingvallavatn. A husband and wife step out of the vehicle along with their children, fishing partner and his daughter. While the men fish and the wife enjoys the sun the children notice a man that seems to have something to hide.
A Teleplay about the role of women in society.
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During the invasion of Gaza in 2008-2009 by the Israeli army, 1400 people were killed - there of 400 children. By the time the last cries of protest died down those names were already forgotten.
Psychiatrist
True Love (Once Removed) is a British drama directed by Director, Kevin Thomas. The film is about the belief in a fated destiny vs. the free will to form a future. Steven is a fish gutter who lives in an isolated fishing village. He appears at the docks every morning where gutters are selected according to the day's need. He spends what little money he has on viewing his future through time machines. These time machines have been banned by the government due to the unintended consequences they have. Steven lives alone, but by looking at the time machine he knows someday he will be loved and who that woman will be, a psychiatric nurse called Bryony in his future. However presently Bryony Lafferty is an 8-year old girl so Steven must wait for his future to come true.
