Iceland Movies

  • 2025
    Memory Traces

    Memory Traces

    Memory Traces

    02025HD

    Amid landscapes marked for disappearance, a ritual of remembrance unfolds as grief surfaces for a loved one long lost to illness and a world now retur...

    Memory Traces
  • 2010
    The Eruption!

    The Eruption!

    The Eruption!

    02010HD

    Devastating powers deep beneath the Earth crust emerge. This documentary takes you there capturing the eruption in Eyjafjallajökull in spring 2010. Th...

    The Eruption!
  • 1982
    Items II

    Items II

    Items II

    01982HD

    Items II
  • 2022
    My Mother the State

    My Mother the State

    My Mother the State

    102022HD

    Una was the first person who used the change in Latvian Law to find her sister, lost in the process of adoption. Breaking through bureaucratic jungle...

    My Mother the State
  • 1996
    Weekend in Auschwitz

    Weekend in Auschwitz

    Weekend in Auschwitz

    01996HD

    Weekend in Auschwitz
  • 2024
    Laxaþjóð - A Salmon Nation

    Laxaþjóð - A Salmon Nation

    Laxaþjóð - A Salmon Nation

    02024HD

    Laxaþjóð | A Salmon Nation tells the story of a country united by its lands and waters, and the power of a community to protect the wild places and an...

    Laxaþjóð - A Salmon Nation
  • 2026
    Volcano for the People

    Volcano for the People

    Volcano for the People

    02026HD

    About the public interest in the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula. The eruption started on March 19, 2021, and...

    Volcano for the People
  • 2000
    Thank You Mother

    Thank You Mother

    Thank You Mother

    02000HD

    Thorsteinn J. interviews his mother who is dying from lung cancer. He connects what he hears with fragments from his own life, including his journeys...

    Thank You Mother
  • 2011
    Paradox

    Paradox

    Paradox

    02011HD

    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 Icelan...

    Paradox
  • 1993
    Limir á lausu I

    Limir á lausu I

    Limir á lausu I

    01993HD

    Limir á lausu I
  • 1975
    Daily Bread

    Daily Bread

    Daily Bread

    01975HD

    About the lowest class in society, female industrial workers. The film tells of one such person and her struggle for struggle for survival.

    Daily Bread
  • 2009
    Leiðin til afreka

    Leiðin til afreka

    Leiðin til afreka

    02009HD

    Leiðin til afreka
  • 2026
    Quicksand

    Quicksand

    Quicksand

    02026HD

    'Quicksand' is a documentary about the Icelandic middle class today. Despite fulltime work, many struggle to make ends meet. The film follows a family...

    Quicksand
  • 2022
    12 Hours to Destruction

    12 Hours to Destruction

    12 Hours to Destruction

    4.52022HD

    In the early summer of 1980, eleven-year-old Hanna and the rest of her childhood band aim to bring criminals to justice when a threat to destroy the l...

    12 Hours to Destruction
  • 1973
    Westman Islands - Restoration

    Westman Islands - Restoration

    Westman Islands - Restoration

    01973HD

    A film about the Westman Islands eruption in 1973, the destruction and the restoration work which began a year later.

    Westman Islands - Restoration
  • 2026
    Hyena

    Hyena

    Hyena

    02026HD

    Clown, gorilla, maniac, zombie duck: a gleeful blast of screaming & a satanic menace

    Hyena
  • 2025
    In Between the Lines

    In Between the Lines

    In Between the Lines

    02025HD

    A struggling playwright must confront her unresolved past when her former best friend auditions for the lead role in her deeply personal play, forcing...

    In Between the Lines
  • 2013
    Olli

    Olli

    Olli

    102013HD

    A documentary about the life and career of Örlygur Aron Sturluson, one of Iceland's most talented basketball players, who tragically passed away at a...

    Olli
  • 2026
    Here Comes Steinar

    Here Comes Steinar

    Here Comes Steinar

    02026HD

    Símon tries confronting the fact that his brother Steinar does not exist.

    Here Comes Steinar
  • 1969
    Milli steins og sleggju

    Milli steins og sleggju

    Milli steins og sleggju

    01969HD

    A programme dedicated to the Icelandic poet, Jóhannes úr Kötlum.

    Milli steins og sleggju