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- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonStefán Hallur StefánssonJoi JohannssonBased on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsBaltasar KormákurHera HilmarGísli Örn GarðarssonA troubled father working as a doctor decides to go to extreme measures to save his daughter from the devastating influence of her drug-dealer boyfriend.
- DirectorValdís ÓskarsdóttirStarsBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonDaniel BrühlGísli Örn GarðarssonAfter 3 years abroad Junior returns to Iceland with his set of problems hoping that his father can sort them out but his homecoming isn't quite what he had expected.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsGísli HalldórssonSigríður HagalínBaldvin HalldórssonOld Thorgeir must leave his home far off in the Icelandic 'countryside' and move into a home for senior citizens in Reykjavik. There he meets an old friend from his childhood, Stella. Thorgeir soon becomes unhappy living there and together with Stella he steals a jeep. Together they leave the city for Stella's old home in northwestern Iceland. A drama who asks us: how important is it to have a long life if you have to leave everything that has a meaning for you?
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsHilmir Snær GuðnasonMargrét VilhjálmsdóttirLaufey ElíasdóttirIn less than twenty-four hours, a middle-aged academic and his nearly half his age fiancée will get married in Iceland's windswept island, Flatey, amid endless preparations and bitter second thoughts. Is this what they really want?
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsMasatoshi NagaseLili TaylorFisher StevensA Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
- DirectorRúnar RúnarssonStarsAuður Drauma BachmannÞorsteinn BachmannKristín DavíðsdóttirHannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
- DirectorDagur KáriStarsTómas LemarquisÞröstur Leó GunnarssonElín HansdóttirIs he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Noi's universe and offer him a window into a better world.
- DirectorDagur KáriStarsPaul DanoBrian CoxBill BuellA cantankerous but ailing bartender takes a kindly young homeless man in under his wing.
- DirectorDagur KáriStarsGunnar JónssonIlmur KristjánsdóttirSigurjón KjartanssonFusi, a 43 year old man, still lives with his mother. His daily life is characterized by monotonous routine. The appearance of vibrant Sjöfn and young neighbour Hera will upset his old bachelor habits.
- DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsÁgústa Eva ErlendsdóttirHilmir JenssonJökull SteinarssonGeorg tries to get his life back on track after a five year stint in jail.
- DirectorOlaf de Fleur JohannessonStarsZlatko KrickicÁgústa Eva ErlendsdóttirIngvar SigurdssonSet in modern day Iceland, an immigrant vows revenge after losing his unborn child in an attack by a crime syndicate, thereby binding his fate with a troubled policewoman, her corrupt police commander, and a crime lord who's losing his edge.
- DirectorOlaf de Fleur JohannessonStarsDarri IngolfssonÁgústa Eva ErlendsdóttirIngvar SigurdssonIn 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.
- DirectorMarteinn ThorssonStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonÞorsteinn BachmannHilmir Snær GuðnasonThe tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he comically criticizes everything and everyone. Before long he has become an outlaw in his own hometown, just like his viking hero, Grettir. After a series of dramatic mishaps, he snaps and goes riding down south to the big city on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket. He's ready for the revolution.
- DirectorBaldvin ZophoníassonStarsHera HilmarThorvaldur KristjanssonÞorsteinn BachmannA Reykjavik pre-school teacher struggles to raise her daughter while selling casual sex to help make ends meet.
- DirectorGrímur HákonarsonStarsSigurður SigurjónssonTheodór JúlíussonCharlotte BøvingIn a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.
- DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsGísli Örn GarðarssonNína Dögg FilippusdóttirÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonKaritas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she's oblivious to what's going on with her twelve year old son Gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction. Gudmund's only friend in the world is Marinó, a schizophrenic in his forties, who lives with his mother in the same apartment building. When Marinó realizes that his mother has secretly been dating a stranger, Marino starts to lose grip on reality. Gardar is an underworld enforcer who makes a mess at work and as a result his twin brother Georg is beaten up. Exiled both from the underworld and his family, Gardar has to make a fresh start in life. He decided to seek out his family, Gardar has to make a fresh start in life. He decided to seek out his son Gudmund whom he has never seen but the straight and narrow is a though path to follow
- DirectorBenedikt ErlingssonStarsIngvar SigurdssonCharlotte BøvingJohann Pall OddsonA country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsHilmir Snær GuðnasonVictoria AbrilHanna María KarlsdóttirWill the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
- DirectorÓskar JónassonStarsBaltasar KormákurIngvar SigurdssonLilja Nótt ÞórarinsdóttirFinancial concerns tempt a security guard to return to his smuggling ways.
- DirectorJoe PennaStarsMads MikkelsenMaria Thelma SmáradóttirTintrinai ThikhasukA man stranded in the Arctic after a plane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown.