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- In order to take down a major criminal organization, the ambitious head of the internal affairs unit of the Reykjavik P.D. decides to investigate a corrupt police lieutenant. Tipped off about the lieutenant's criminal dealings by a former crime kingpin, now imprisoned, he places a female former narcotics officer undercover to spy on him. These actions set him off on a dangerous path as he aims to catch both the lieutenant and the drug lord.
- At the beginning of a new aeon is a water polluted world years after a global fall. Where the legacy of what was, has been quenched and world understanding must take shape again. Surrounded by an endless hazy and drab, bleak desert we follow two survivors who eye each other with the same mutual depraved suspicion as they contemplate their inhospitable surroundings.
- Still on the run from a group of Nazi zombies, a man seeks the aid of a group of American zombie enthusiasts, and discovers new techniques for fighting the zombies.
- A farmer's determined battle for the soil we share.
- Husband and wife, Gunnar and Sonja go to a remote house in the Icelandic country side. Shortly after their arrival strange things start to happen that might jeopardize their marriage as well as their lives.
- The beautiful Diana Klein seeks the help of private detective Harry, and his faithful assistant Heimir, when her father goes missing.
- Iceland's first non-narrative full-feature film's focus is set on presenting Iceland in a way it has never been presented before, using various elements of high-end cinematography.
- In August 1970, farmers around Lake Mývatn got together with dynamite and blew up a dam to save their land, precious lake and salmon river Laxá.
- On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven men on board, five lived. This is the remarkable story of the heroic rescue mission that brought them home.
- Arthouse comedy set in 1992-3 following awkward graduate students on vacations all around the world.
- A pair of former brothers-in-law embark on a road trip through Iceland.
- Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.
- Esteve, a children's writer and a Scandinavian translator, comes back to La Seu d'Urgell after 5 years living in Reykjavik. While he gets back in touch with his old friends, he doesn't realize that communications aren't working anymore.
- A Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.
- Two friends take to the skies in a 1957 Piper Super Cub as a conservation effort for the Shompole Group Ranch in Kenya. They brave heavy weather in a tiny cockpit on their odyssey from Oregon over the US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the North Atlantic, The UK and France. They land in dicey places on their aerial trek over Algeria, Niger, Chad, and South Sudan before landing at home in Kenya, where they have been living and working for over 25 years as pilots, outfitters and conservationists. Along their route, the pilots share their first hand knowledge of local communities in Kenya that protect wildlife when they share in tourism revenues. And they tell audiences about Kenya and Shompole, where Michel Laplace-Toulouse and Alexis Peltier have been involved in conservation efforts for the past five years.
- OILFIELDS MINES HURRICANES is a road-movie, in which the classical concept of that genre - the quest for and the fixation of the own identity - is lead ad absurdum: Salpa, the traveler, experiences a corrosion of his all-along-multiple identity. This is already founded within the production: 18 authors have taken turns writing the screenplay. The amount and sequence of the scenes correlate with John Cage's organ piece As Slow As Possible. The performance venue of that piece, Halberstadt, is the apparent destination of Salpa's journey. But, arrived, no redemption is waiting; Salpa again finds himself thrown back onto himself and alone. For Salpa's journey each author depicts another fragmented world for Salpa to dive in, and each of them poses him, always confused & disorientated but determined, with the question of his own identity. The further he gets away from the beginning, the more the destination seems to fade away. Estranged Salpa meanders through different possibility-worlds, which don't provide the right answer for his questions, who he is, what is left of him and what he has lost within himself along with the loss of the other. Is Salpa like a migratory bird in a flock, or someone reflecting the relations to his father? Which gender does Salpa claim? What is ascribed to him? What does define him without the other? We experience Salpa's tale through non-stringent and non-causal narrations which unfold web-like over the whole movie: Salpa is constantly looking for contact with his surrounding, fails and enmeshes himself deeper and deeper in his identity which is more and more under deconstruction. Salpa's «companion» is a salp, a primitive fish, which Salpa is carrying as a prosthesis on his lower face. The origin of his prosthesis he finds in Iceland, where to he followed a mysterious tale of a flock of birds which froze to death in the air and dropped on the glacier. During the movie Salpa is testing the possibility of a symbiosis with the prosthesis whilst entrapping himself in more than one discourse around his seemingly lost place in the world. The salp takes on different roles and functions: It serves as an idealistic dialogue-partner, as a connection-tool to the outside, as an alter-ego and as a clumsy chauffeur on the trip which the two have embarked on together. The destination is unknown, but something pushes them forward, maybe the dark pitches, which are omnipresent below the surface, or Salpa's voice from the car-radio? And who gets homesick while watching a maritime documentary, Salpa or the fish? Salpa, the seeker, is a metaphor for the loss of a world, for a destination gone missing without the end of the quest for it.
- Hugi is a teacher in a small and remote village in the east of iceland (population 169). He is quite content by himself among the mountains, which surround the quite village where hardly anyone walks the streets. But has he withdrawn too far? When Hugi receives a phone call from his estranged father announcing his arrival he is not too pleased. But after consulting with his AA-sponser, Hugi, decides to welcome him. Something he immediately regrets.
- In response to widespread media silence, this documentary explores how and why Icelanders resisted the measures imposed by their government following the crisis of 2008, forcing the government to resign in 2009. Filmed in Reykjavik in October 2012, following arguably the most important National Referendum in Iceland's history, our aim was not only to provide a platform for Icelanders to tell the story of their nation - one that we haven't heard in the news but also to share some of their current socio-political ideas. We explore how the writing of the new Icelandic constitution was a truly inclusive and democratic process and how citizens globally can begin to create more inclusive and representative political processes in a world still in crisis.
- A daughter returns to Iceland to film her mother, who is ill and may not have much time left. The mother is reluctant to participate, but the daughter is persistent. A film about life and art, understandings and misunderstandings, and the relationship between two artists - the subject and the filmmaker.
- State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Bacon-enthusiasts, Governor Branstad, a bacon queen, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, members of PETA, and an envoy of Icelanders are not excluded from this bacon party and during the course of the film become intertwined with the organizers of the festival to show that bacon diplomacy is not dead.
- A lone traveler with the ability to cross between worlds encounters a band of travelers who tie together his past, the real significance of the rock heads of Easter Island, and a dark character who has been following his whereabouts for some time now.
- Once Sveppi and Villi discover that the kidnapper of Villi has returned doing treacherous deeds, in this final chapter of the franchise, they set on a mission with Gói to stop him once and for all.
- Guðjón has led a safe life. Suddenly he is faced with retirement, getting older and is forced to take a hard look at his marriage. Dramatic but often hilarious story about crossroads and the meaning of it all.
- The Grump is a man from the past. A man who knows that everything used to be so much better in the old days. Pretty much everything that's been done after 1953 has always managed to ruin The Grump's day. Our story unfolds as The Grump takes a fall from his basement steps, hurting his ankle. He has to spend a weekend in Helsinki to attend physiotherapy. The Grump doesn't like this for four reasons: 1) He has to take a taxi. 2) He can't take daily care of his wife, an Alzheimer's patient. 3) He can't drive, which means he might have to sit in a car with a female driver. 4) He has to spend time with his family. The daughter-in-law is a career woman, not keen to spend time with The Grump when he comes to the city. Her boss has given her the task to look after Russian businessmen supposed to close a major deal over the weekend. It doesn't make her any happier when The Grump decides to help with the deal. Then The Grump has to face his useless son to become the father he never was, teaching his son how to take care of his loved ones. A thing The Grump has never been able to do. And somebody's day will be ruined.
- Two twins separated at birth grow up to be artists in an eccentric Icelandic film, that just like a science fiction film asks the question: 'What if ...?'
- Fashion and design affect everybody, every day of their life. Most people are clueless about how these things work - how trends emerge to make their creators a lot of money. Trend Beacons look into the hidden world of Trend forecasting, explaining how things really work.
- In The Dominican Republic, cockfighting is one of the countries most popular sports. There you can find many colorful characters. Jón Ingi Gíslason, a farmers son from Biskupstungur, Iceland, is one of the nations most renowned cock-fighters. We follow him and get to know Gabriel, an eleven year old shoe-shine, who dreams of one day being a famous "Gallero" like Jón.
- Kua and Teriki will soon get married. They live on the distant Tureia island in the French Polynesia, Pacific Ocean and have just been told that something is wrong with their son Maokis heart. It is a consequence of living only 100 km away from the island of Moruroa, where France has tested 193 atom bombs for 30 years. Several of their family members are sick and Moruroa can soon collapse, which can lead to a tsunami likely to drown all of them. Vive La France is a personal and intimate story about harvesting the consequences of the French atomic program.
- An exploration of volcanoes around the world. Adventure Filmmaker Peter Rowe climbs and films 19 volcanoes around the world, from Iceland to the Congo, Italy to Indonesia, Guatemala to Vanuatu, interacting with the people who live and work near these extreme forces of nature.
- This movie has the gr8est actor on the planet, Mr Guðmundur Ingvar Jonsson gum-mi returns to the ER.