When We Are Born

Iceland

When We Are Born

When We Are Born

When We Are Born

IMDb: 7.7
2021
25min

WHEN WE ARE BORN is a unique live performance film that tells a touching and thoroughly human story based in part on Ólafur’s life. Filmed on location in Iceland in summer 2020, it features the contributions of an unparalleled creative collective including ground-breaking choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir, the Iceland Dance Company and cinematographer Thor Eliasson. The music in the film builds upon Ólafur’s critically praised new album ‘some kind of peace’ and was performed and recorded live on set, representing a constant cinematic conversation between picture and music. Vincent Moon’s intimate cinematic vision brings this layered metaphorical world to life as we see Ólafur’s music manifested and symbolised all around him through set design, lighting and dance. Through themes of rituals, relationships and exploration of our inner landscapes, this is a film focused on how we all move forward.

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Dolor

Dolor

Dolor

IMDb: 7.4
2008
13min

The film deals with unexpected and unexplainable loss. Due to an accident, the life of a happy family turns into a larger-than-life tragedy.

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The Mother the Son The Rat and The Gun

The Mother the Son The Rat and The Gun

The Mother the Son The Rat and The Gun

IMDb: 4.9
2021
115min

Gun-toting gangsters, lawless lawyers and backstabbing bastards. There’s a family in the middle, and while some are trying to keep it afloat, others want to tear it apart.

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Carmen Curlers

Carmen Curlers

Carmen Curlers

IMDb: 7
2022
min

In 1963, a business adventure begins in a basement in a small Danish town. Within a few years, the company has 3500 employees, many of them women who are experiencing for the first time the joys and challenges of earning their own money.

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Kraven the Hunter

Kraven the Hunter

Kraven the Hunter

IMDb: 5.5
2024
127min

Kraven Kravinoff’s complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.

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The Finnish Line

The Finnish Line

The Finnish Line

IMDb: 6.8
2024
84min

Anya follows her father’s footsteps in sled dog racing. In Finland, she enters his last race but her lead dog is injured. Teaming with Cole’s dog, she battles her father’s rival Monty while learning to trust her new canine partner to win.

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Jónsi: Go Quiet

Jónsi: Go Quiet

Jónsi: Go Quiet

IMDb: 8.1
2010
45min

Jonsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his New Year’s Eve party. He avoids cleaning up and instead plays songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of one gone by.

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Lobster Soup

Lobster Soup

Lobster Soup

IMDb: 7
2020
97min

Every morning Krilli prepares the myriad ingredients required to make the lobster soup at the Bryggjan café, a tiny eatery in Iceland’s dullest town. His wife helps him in the kitchen and yearns to return to Rejkyavik. In the café, Krilli’s brother Alli sits with the old fishermen, the last boxer in Iceland and the translator of Don Quixote into Icelandic. Every day they find a new answer to the world’s problems. Once a month the neighbours meet at the Bryggjan café to remember those who died in Grindavik and pronounce their names. Four crazy musicians play jazz. A few lost tourists turn up at the fishing harbour and are captivated by the atmosphere in the café. Real people, they think. A real place. On the other side of the mountain is the Blue Lagoon, the island’s great attraction. People from all over the world come in fascination to see the volcanoes, the ice and the genesis of the Earth.

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Cop Secret

Cop Secret

Cop Secret

IMDb: 5.9
2021
100min

When Bússi, Iceland’s toughest cop, is forced to work with a new partner to solve a series of bank robberies, the pressure to close the case as soon as possible proves too much for him.

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It Hatched

It Hatched

It Hatched

IMDb: 3.6
2021
96min

A young couple set out to open a guesthouse in a remote place in Iceland. They come for peace but soon find out that something evil is lurking beneath their basement and hunting them in their dreams while they sleep.

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The Seer and the Unseen

The Seer and the Unseen

The Seer and the Unseen

IMDb: 6.8
2019
86min

A magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman – a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat.

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#387

#387

#387

IMDb: 6.4
2019
61min

This is the story of a Greek physician who collects pendants and bracelets. This is the story of an Italian woman who has been fighting for 15 years to «make bodies talk.» This is the story of those who watch over the forgotten migrants.

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Fish & Men

Fish & Men

Fish & Men

IMDb: 6.8
2019
85min

Fish & Men exposes the high cost of cheap fish in the modern seafood economy and the forces threatening local fishing communities and public health by revealing how our choices as consumers drive the global seafood trade. But, a new movement is underway – an opportunity to return sustainability to both fish and fishermen. Thriving on local communities, pioneering fishermen and celebrated chefs are leading a revolutionary new model, a ‘Catch of the Day’ revival based on local, seasonal, sustainable fish and reconnect us with those who risk their lives to harvest the bounties of the sea. Featuring the owners of Mac’s Seafood on Cape Cod and the Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing community.

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L for Leisure

L for Leisure

L for Leisure

IMDb: 6
2014
74min

A dreamy, ironic comedy about a generation of hedonistic students in the 1990s. Their favourite activity: talking endlessly. During a series of vacation days filled with sun-drenched naps, squabbling, waterskiing competitions and love-making, the amateur actors discuss their concerns in dry dialogues. For instance, semi-intellectual reflections on the end of time and how Michael Jordan plays basketball.

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The Vasulka Effect

The Vasulka Effect

The Vasulka Effect

IMDb: 7.2
2019
87min

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody through various TV screens. He does the same and replies. A perfect image of the relationship between the free-spirited, groundbreaking pioneers of video art. After meeting in Prague in the early 1960s, they relocated from Czechoslovakia to New York, where they later founded The Kitchen, their legendary art and performance gallery.

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A Song Called Hate

A Song Called Hate

A Song Called Hate

IMDb: 7.6
2020
90min

The pro-Palestinian, anti-capitalist, BDSM-provocative, techno-punk performance art ensemble Hatari unsurprisingly drew attention to themselves with their performance at the Icelandic qualifiers for the Eurovision Song Contest. So much so that they won and therefore were allowed to perform at the main event in Tel Aviv. But what now? Should they boycott the event, swallow their idealism, or use their airtime to criticise the host country for their illegal occupation of Palestine? The Icelandic director Anna Hildur joins the boys in the band all the way to the fateful final.

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Suddenly

Suddenly

Suddenly

IMDb: 6.1
2023
114min

Ben and Laura are a passionate but volatile couple who embark on a round-the-world sailing adventure to give their relationship a new start. During their trip, they decide to explore a vast deserted island which they discover off the coast of Chile. Caught in a violent storm, they shelter in an abandoned whaling station for the night but wake up the next morning to find their boat has disappeared. Stranded in a hostile environment with no means of communication, dwindling supplies and winter approaching they must work together in a life and death battle for survival, that will challenge their feelings and change their relationship forever.

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The Boss of It All

The Boss of It All

The Boss of It All

IMDb: 6.6
2006
100min

An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company’s president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

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Trom

Trom

Trom

IMDb: 6.1
2022
min

The six-part series follows journalist Hannis Martinsson (Ulrich Thomsen), who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, a young Faroese woman who claims she is Hannis’ daughter and that her life is in danger. Reluctantly returning home to the Faroes to investigate, Hannis discovers Sonja’s body in the bloody waters of a whale hunt. His search for answers soon brings him into conflict with the local detective chief inspector, Karla Mohr (Maria Rich; `Follow the Money’) as he uncovers a web of secrets in the close-knit community – but how far is he willing to go to learn the truth

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My Year of Dicks

My Year of Dicks

My Year of Dicks

IMDb: 7.1
2022
26min

An imaginative 15-year-old is stubbornly determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early ’90s.

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Valhalla

Valhalla

Valhalla

IMDb: 5.2
2019
105min

The Viking children Røskva and Tjalfe embark on an adventurous journey from Midgard to Valhalla with the gods Thor and Loki. Life in Valhalla, however, turns out to be threatened by the dreaded Fenrir wolf and the god’s barbaric archenemies, the Jotnar. Side by side with the gods the two children must fight to save Valhalla from the end of the world – Ragnarok.

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Whale Valley

Whale Valley

Whale Valley

IMDb: 7.2
2013
15min

The film shows a strong bond between two brothers that live in a remote fjord with their parents. We look into their world through the eyes of the younger brother and follow him on a journey that marks a turning point in the lives of the brothers.

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Nest

Nest

Nest

IMDb: 7.3
2022
22min

A story of siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy.

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Entrapped

Entrapped

Entrapped

IMDb:
2022
min

Police investigate the disappearance of a cult member.

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Love on Iceland

Love on Iceland

Love on Iceland

IMDb: 6.3
2020
84min

Searching for a fresh podcast idea for work, Chloe heads on a spontaneous trip to Iceland with her college friends. She doesn’t expect to run into her ex, Charlie, but what starts as begrudgingly spending more time together, results in new beginnings for them both.

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Beyond That Wasteland

Beyond That Wasteland

Beyond That Wasteland

IMDb: 4.9
2012
10min

Beyond That Wasteland is a poetic depiction of being in a borderland, in the wake of the disaster. A place where one is forced to stay awake in order not to perish. It is a timeless ninja epos about facing an ultimate, life-changing decision – to resist or surrender.

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Hygge!

Hygge!

Hygge!

IMDb: 5.8
2023
100min

A group of friends meet for a dinner, and for fun start a party game where everyone must share everything that comes into their phones. Before long, the secrets spill out and threaten to spoil the most important thing of all, the ‘hygge’.

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ABBA: Against the Odds

ABBA: Against the Odds

ABBA: Against the Odds

IMDb: 7.4
2024
94min

This year marks the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s iconic Eurovision victory, a milestone that calls for a celebratory cinematic tribute fitting for the ultimate pop band. ‘ABBA: Against the Odds’ unveils the epic journey of ABBA’s rise to global fame. Starting with the moment they won Eurovision, it tells the story of how they overcame critical backlash, societal attitudes and marital break-up to deliver their ground-breaking music and prove themselves as a live act.

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Tilbury

Tilbury

Tilbury

IMDb: 6
1987
57min

In 1940, when there are British forces in Iceland, a country boy goes to Reykjavik to work for the army and to find what became of his childhood sweetheart. He soon discovers that she’s having an affair with a British soldier. Moreover, he starts to suspect that the soldier, instead of being an officer and a gentleman, is in fact a very peculiar kind of monster.

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101 Reykjavik

101 Reykjavik

101 Reykjavik

IMDb: 6.8
2000
88min

Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother’s Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year’s Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.

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Echo

Echo

Echo

IMDb: 7
2019
79min

Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time of the Christmas holidays.

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The Damned

The Damned

The Damned

IMDb: 6.3
2024
89min

A 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her impoverished Icelandic fishing village. Any attempt to rescue survivors risks further depleting the starving villagers’ supplies.

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Eternal

Eternal

Eternal

IMDb: 5.6
2023
99min

Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon – a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor – he chooses career over love. Years later, during his mission, he experiences a vision of what his life could have been like if he made a different choice and his new obsession becomes to get his old life and love back.

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SWITCH

SWITCH

SWITCH

IMDb: 6.7
2012
98min

What will it really take, to transition from oil and coal, to the energies of tomorrow? SWITCH goes where no film has gone before, deep into the world’s most restricted energy sites, to depoliticize competing power sources, make the technical accessible, and discover the truth of our energy future. Test audiences have raved, calling it, ‘The most important energy film since An Inconvenient Truth.’

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The Bothersome Man

The Bothersome Man

The Bothersome Man

IMDb: 7.2
2006
90min

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment – even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there’s no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to “the other side”? A new plan for escape is hatched.

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End of Sentence

End of Sentence

End of Sentence

IMDb: 6.6
2019
96min

Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.

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Margrete: Queen of the North

Margrete: Queen of the North

Margrete: Queen of the North

IMDb: 6.6
2021
120min

1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life’s work: The Kalmar Union.

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Of Horses and Men

Of Horses and Men

Of Horses and Men

IMDb: 6.8
2013
85min

A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses’ perception.

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Agnes Joy

Agnes Joy

Agnes Joy

IMDb: 6.1
2019
93min

When a new neighbour arrives at Rannveig´s doorstep, her frustrated everyday life suddenly changes. The cloud of hopelessness that surrounds her marriage and her relationship with her almost adult daughter lifts temporarily but soon the family is forced to confront new and unknown challenges in their relationship.

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Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic

Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic

Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic

IMDb: 7.8
2020
54min

Comedian Ari Eldjárn pokes fun at Nordic rivalries, Hollywood’s take on Thor, the whims of toddlers and more.

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