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383 articles available in total starting from 19/09/2002. Last article published on 05/08/2025.

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

Fridriksson in the running, again

Appropriately enough, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s Mamma Gógó – a semi-biographical parody about an ambitious filmmaker’s aspirations for an Oscar nomination – has been selected as this year’s...  

29/09/2010 | Oscars 2011 | Iceland

Reykjavik boasts Jarmusch and Chomsky

Two high profile US personalities – filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and philosopher/linguist Noam Chomsky – will provide food for thought at the 7th Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF), which...  

27/09/2010 | Festivals | Iceland

Industry backs first film house in Reykjavik

Yesterday marked the launch of Bio Paradís (literally, Cinema Paradise), the first “film house” in the Icelandic capital that will be used for repertoire and arthouse screenings and to host film...  

16/09/2010 | Exhibitors | Iceland

Fridriksson’s Mamma goes to Bavaria

Bavaria Film International has taken on worldwide distribution rights to Mamma Gógó by Oscar-nominated Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. The semi-biographical film will have its...  

27/08/2010 | Market | Iceland

Icelandic focus at Czech Summer Film School

The Association of Czech Film Clubs, which organises the Summer Film School in the Czech city of Uherske Hradistě from July 23-August 1, has chosen to this year focus on Icelandic cinema with 39...  

25/06/2010 | Events | Iceland

Seven Cannes acquisitions each for Sena and Greenlight

Icelandic distribution companies Greenlight Films and Sena each acquired seven new films at the last Cannes Film Festival and Market. Greenlight Films – one of Iceland’s most avid buyers of...  

28/05/2010 | Distribution | Iceland

CAOZ heats up buyers’ taste for 3D

Icelandic animation studio CAOZ is unveiling a promo-reel of its stereoscopic 3D feature Thor: The Edda Chronicles at the Cannes Market. The co-production with Germany (Ulysses Films) and Ireland...  

15/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Market/Iceland

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