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380 articles available in total starting from 19/09/2002. Last article published on 26/06/2025.

The Vikings are still coming, with Working Title attached to the €42 million epic

When two years ago Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (photo) announced his plans to make a €42 million Viking epic (read the article), they were somehow derailed by rumours that Australian...  

03/06/2011 | Production | Iceland

Click your way to Icelandic films, otherwise unavailable

Want instant access to Icelandic cinema, be it features, documentaries, shorts, TV shows, or other audiovisuals? Launched in May, Icelandic Cinema Online is a new VOD service on the internet with...  

01/06/2011 | Distribution | Iceland

Volcano: The fire within

The second edition of new director Frederic Boyer's Directors' Fortnight again presents a host of new filmmakers to the world. One of the more buzzed-about debuts is Volcano, from Icelandic...  

15/05/2011 | Cannes | Directors' Fortnight/Iceland

Iceland erupts on the Croisette

For those who can remember as far back as the Cannes Film Festival last year, there was much concern as to whether or not many people would actually be able to make it, thanks to the Icelandic...  

12/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Iceland

Undercurrent, Good Heart dominate Eddas

Last Saturday evening, Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson’s Undercurrent was the top winner at Iceland’s annual Edda Film and Television Awards ceremony, with six statuettes, including Best Film and Best...  

21/02/2011 | Awards | Iceland

Edda nominations favor Undercurrent

Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson’s thriller Undercurrent leads the way at the Icelandic Film and Television Awards (Edda Awards), with 12 nominations, followed by Dagur Kári’s English-language film The Good...  

07/02/2011 | Awards | Iceland

Record number of domestic films in theatres

As many as four films by Icelandic directors were in the local box office Top Ten last weekend, almost the yearly production output. Baldvin Z’s feature debut Jitters kept its second place in its...  

26/10/2010 | Distribution | Iceland

Rúnarsson making “volcanic” feature debut with Zik Zak

Zik Zak Filmworks, behind Rúnar Rúnarsson’s 2006 Oscar-nominated short film The Last Farm, is currently filming the director’s feature debut, Volcano. Written by Rúnarsson, Volcano is the story of...  

11/10/2010 | Production | Iceland

RIFF attracts 8% of Icelandic population

The Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) attracted a record 25,000 visitors this year – nearly 8% of the Icelandic population – and saw a 10% increase in tickets sales over 2009. During...  

05/10/2010 | Festivals | Iceland

Kormákur resurfacing from The Deep

Iceland's star writer/director/producer Baltasar Kormákur is wrapping shooting on his new domestic film The Deep (Djúpid) before turning to Hollywood for Contraband, the US remake of Reykjavik...  

04/10/2010 | Production | Iceland

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