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

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

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

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