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395 articles available in total starting from 19/09/2002. Last article published on 14/01/2026.

Record Edda nominations for White Night Wedding

Baltasar Kormákur’s White Night Wedding, Iceland’s entry for the 2009 Oscars, received the highest number of nominations (14) for the country’s top film and television awards, the Eddas. The most...  

12/11/2008 | Awards | Iceland

Fridriksson returns with Mamma Gogo

The Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, nominated for an Oscar for Children of Nature and who has not made a feature film since 2004, is preparing his new project, Mamma Gogo, to be...  

30/10/2008 | Production | Iceland

Tulpan Receives Golden Puffin at RIFF

Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Tulpan received the top award at the 5th Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF), the Golden Puffin, during Saturday’s award ceremony, which took place in the whale...  

08/10/2008 | Festivals | Iceland

14 rising filmmakers compete in Reykjavik

At the fifth edition of the Reykjavik International Film Festival, unspooling in the Icelandic capital since September 26, fourteen first and second time filmmakers are running for the Discovery...  

01/10/2008 | Festivals | Iceland

Creative boom explodes on world screens (2)

“The domestic release of so many Icelandic films in a short period of time is partly a coincidence, partly due to the fact that we’re in a real creative boom,” says Laufey Guðjónsdóttir, head of...  

08/09/2008 | Production/distribution | Iceland

Creative boom explodes on world screens (1)

For a country whose film industry produces no more than a handful of films each year, having two to three films on domestic and foreign screens at the same time is an amazing hit rate. Pure...  

08/09/2008 | Production/Distribution | Iceland

Country Wedding draws Icelandic crowds

Iceland’s acclaimed editor Valdis Óskarsdóttir, winner of a Bafta award for her editing of Michael Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, has successfully entered the Iceland charts last...  

03/09/2008 | Distribution | Iceland

Queen Raquela sold to here! in the US

Olaf de Fleur Johannesson documentary-fiction The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela winner of a Teddy Award-Best Film at the last Berlin International Film Festival, was just acquired for US...  

01/09/2008 | Market | Iceland

Back Soon on European screens

The Icelandic born filmmaker Sólveig Anspach, who studied at Paris’ Femis film school, is touring Europe with her new off-beat comedy Back Soon, winner of a Variety Piazza Grande Award in Locarno...  

19/08/2008 | Distribution | Iceland

Kormákur shooting in New Mexico

Iceland’s star actor/director Baltasar Kormákur is currently filming in New Mexico his second English-language film with a star studded cast that includes Diane Kruger, Dermot Mulroney, Sam...  

22/07/2008 | Production | Iceland

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