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

Olaf de Fleur’s Queen Raquela in Panorama

The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela by established Icelandic filmmaker/producer Olaf de Fleur Johannesson will have its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival...  

07/01/2008 | Berlinale 2008 | Iceland

Bragason sweeps Edda awards

Icelandic filmmaker Ragnar Bragason won six major Edda awards (Iceland’s top film honours) for his film Parents and another two for his television drama The Nightshift at the 9th Icelandic Film...  

13/11/2007 | Awards | Iceland

Kormákur in post with White Night Wedding

Star Icelandic actor/director Baltasar Kormákur is currently editing his latest project, White Night Wedding, loosely based on the Anton Chekhov play Ivanov. Kormákur shot the film over a few...  

10/10/2007 | Production | Iceland

Hungarian Journey wins Golden Puffin

Last Saturday evening, at the closing night ceremony of the fourth Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF), Csaba Bollók’s Iska’s Journey (see news) was presented with out the Discovery of...  

09/10/2007 | Festivals | Iceland

Reykjavik in full swing

Launched last Thursday with the premiere of the documentary Sigur Rós-Heima, on the world famous icelandic post-rock band, the fourth Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) is set to become...  

03/10/2007 | Festivals | Iceland

Jar City shoots for the Oscars

Baltasar Kormákur’s critical and commercial success Jar City is Iceland’s contender for an Academy Awards nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The Icelandic thriller came back...  

02/10/2007 | Oscars 2008 | Iceland

Jar City sold to IFC in the US

Baltasar Kormákur’s Jar City, winner of a Grand Prix Crystal Globe in Karlovy Vary last July, has been sold by Trust Film Sales to IFC for North American distribution during the Toronto Film...  

12/09/2007 | Market | Iceland

Quiet Storm readies for break out

In four days, Icelandics will be introduced to Gudny Halldorsdottir’s Quiet Storm (Veðramót), one of the filmmaker’s most personal films to be released by on September 7 with four prints. Gudny is...  

03/09/2007 | Release | Iceland

“Leatherface” Hansen cast in Icelandic whale massacre

Icelandic born US actor Gunnar Hansen, famous for playing Leatherface in the 1974 slasher film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, has accepted to star in Júlíus Kemp’s upcoming horror film RWWM...  

22/08/2007 | Production | Iceland

Eleven Men Out partners all in for two new films

Julíus Kemp, co-founder of the Icelandic Film Company (IFC), is supervising post-production of comedy feature Dorks & Damsels by first-time director Gunnar B. Gudmundsson and getting ready to...  

12/04/2007 | Production | Iceland

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