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379 articles available in total starting from 19/09/2002. Last article published on 12/06/2025.

When the Light Breaks crowned Film of the Year and Touch dominates with ten wins at Iceland’s Edda Awards

When the Light Breaks crowned Film of the Year and Touch dominates with ten wins at Iceland’s Edda Awards

Rúnar Rúnarsson has been named Best Director and won the Award for Short Film of the Year with O, whilst Lilja Ingolfsdottir’s Loveable scooped the gong for Foreign Film of the Year  

27/03 | Festivals | Awards | Iceland

Review: Epilogues

Review: Epilogues

Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon’s slow-paced fiction feature explores ultimate solitude and the liminal space between active life and the threshold of death  

27/03 | Vilnius 2025

Series review: The Danish Woman

Series review: The Danish Woman

The fantastic Trine Dyrholm is a neighbour from hell or an angel of justice, depending on how you feel about cats, in Benedikt Erlingsson’s series  

26/03 | Series Mania 2025

Benedikt Erlingsson, Ólafur Egill Egilsson • Writer-creator and writer of The Danish Woman

Interview: Benedikt Erlingsson, Ólafur Egill Egilsson • Writer-creator and writer of The Danish Woman

“How would it feel if Pippi Longstocking or Rambo were your neighbours?”

In their new show, the duo introduces us to a new action hero – a lovely lady with a past in the Danish Secret Service, played by Trine Dyrholm  

24/03 | Series Mania 2025

Review: The Home

Review: The Home

Mattias J Skoglund's effective, modest horror takes full advantage of one of the biggest modern fears: moving into an assisted living facility  

14/03 | SXSW 2025

Mattias J Skoglund  • Director of The Home

Interview: Mattias J Skoglund • Director of The Home

“I wanted to create a tone that would be very raw, intimate and slightly uncanny”

The Swedish director breaks down his indie horror flick set in a retirement home, which is based on a novel by Mats Strandberg  

10/03 | SXSW 2025

Baltasar Kormákur kicks off production on Netflix thriller Apex

Baltasar Kormákur kicks off production on Netflix thriller Apex

The film, toplined by Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton and Eric Bana, follows a grieving woman who retreats into the wilderness, only to find herself locked in a perilous game of cat and mouse  

07/03 | Production | Funding | USA/UK/Iceland

Paris is ready to welcome Visions Nordiques – French Nordic Film Days

Paris is ready to welcome Visions Nordiques – French Nordic Film Days

The event will unfold from 5 to 9 March with screenings of films from northern Europe and industry days including a very attractive co-production workshop  

27/02 | Industry | Market | France/Denmark/Finland/Iceland/Norway/Sweden

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Jon Einarsson Gustafsson's indie road movie Anorgasmia

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Jon Einarsson Gustafsson's indie road movie Anorgasmia

The Icelandic-Czech-Canadian picture takes a closer look at a generation trapped by the over-abundance of choice and the invasion of technology  

24/02 | Production | Funding | Iceland/Czech Republic/Canada

Elín Hall  • Actress

Interview: Elín Hall • Actress

"The most challenging part was staying in this very fragile emotional state for weeks"

BERLINALE 2025: The Icelandic rising star discusses straddling the line between music, with two albums already to her name, and film, having worked with Rúnar Rúnarsson among others  

20/02 | European Shooting Stars 2025

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