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397 articles available in total starting from 19/09/2002. Last article published on 13/02/2026.

It’s a wrap for the 6th edition of Iceland’s Stockfish Film Festival

It’s a wrap for the 6th edition of Iceland’s Stockfish Film Festival

Ninna Pálmadóttir’s Paperboy has won the 6th edition of Shortfish, Stockfish’s short-film competition  

23/03/2020 | Festivals | Awards | Iceland

Pernilla August to direct TV series Blackwater

Pernilla August to direct TV series Blackwater

The six-episode crime-drama will start principal photography later this spring  

05/03/2020 | Production | Funding | Sweden/Denmark/Norway/Finland/Iceland/Germany

Review: Last and First Men

Review: Last and First Men

BERLINALE 2020: Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson's first and last directorial effort is a docu-fiction essay of sorts, based on a 1930 sci-fi novel and Yugoslav monuments from the communist era  

26/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

Hrönn Marinósdóttir  • Director of Reykjavik International Film Festival

Interview: Hrönn Marinósdóttir • Director of Reykjavik International Film Festival

In Iceland we have this special regulation which allows the cinema owners to also be distributors

Hrönn Marinósdóttir tells us how she founded the Reykjavik International Film Festival in 2004  

23/02/2020 | Euro Film Fest

Hörður Rúnarsson • Producer, co-founder & CEO, Glassriver

Interview: Hörður Rúnarsson • Producer, co-founder & CEO, Glassriver

"The responses we've got to our projects have been really, really positive"

Iceland's Hörður Rúnarsson, producer for Glassriver, gives us an insight into the company's latest projects, including Siminn Premium S-VoD's My Funeral, in Göteborg's TV Drama Vision  

04/02/2020 | Göteborg 2020 | Göteborg Industry

The Vasulka Effect looks back at the lives of the grandparents of video art

The Vasulka Effect looks back at the lives of the grandparents of video art

The new documentary by Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir maps the lives and oeuvre of video-art trailblazers Steina and Woody Vasulka  

13/01/2020 | Production | Funding | Iceland/Czech Republic/Sweden/Denmark

Elfar Aðalsteins’ Summerlight And Then Comes The Night in the works

Elfar Aðalsteins’ Summerlight And Then Comes The Night in the works

The Icelandic director’s sophomore feature is based on Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s successful novel of the same name  

19/12/2019 | Production | Funding | Iceland

Review: Between Heaven and Earth

Review: Between Heaven and Earth

The private becomes political in Najwa Najjar’s interesting third film, as the writer-director takes a deeper look at complicated relationships in the Middle East  

26/11/2019 | Cairo 2019

First Icelandic Netflix Original series, Katla, in the works

First Icelandic Netflix Original series, Katla, in the works

The sci-fi TV series has been co-created by Baltasar Kormákur and Sigurjón Kjartansson for RVK Studios  

14/10/2019 | Production | Funding | Iceland

Grímur Hákonarson  • Director of The County

Interview: Grímur Hákonarson • Director of The County

“Corruption is part of this community’s life”

We chatted to Icelandic writer-director Grímur Hákonarson, whose third feature, The County, was presented in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema section  

11/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Contemporary World Cinema

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