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

Ugla Hauksdóttir’s thriller The Fires being sold by Bankside at the American Film Market

Ugla Hauksdóttir’s thriller The Fires being sold by Bankside at the American Film Market

Penned by Hauksdóttir herself together with Markus Englmair, the picture is an adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Sigríður Hagalín  

07/11/2024 | Production | Funding | Iceland/Poland

Review: The Day Iceland Stood Still

Review: The Day Iceland Stood Still

Pamela Hogan’s compelling documentary unpacks the story behind the legendary 1975 Icelandic women’s strike  

05/11/2024 | Jihlava 2024

Grímur Hákonarson, Sara Nassim • Director and producer of 200 Kopavogur

Interview: Grímur Hákonarson, Sara Nassim • Director and producer of 200 Kopavogur

“The film speaks to a very delicate subject – infertility – and how one deals with that”

The director-producer duo behind the project selected for the Nouveau Marché in Montreal unpick their story set in 1960s Iceland, revolving around a complex family dynamic  

14/10/2024 | Nouveau Cinéma Montréal 2024 | Nouveau Marché

Super Happy Forever scoops the Golden Puffin at Reykjavík

Super Happy Forever scoops the Golden Puffin at Reykjavík

The first solo feature by Japan’s Kohei Igarashi has won the New Visions competition at the 21st edition of the gathering, while A Different Tomorrow saw the victory of A New Kind of Wilderness  

07/10/2024 | Reykjavik 2024 | Awards

Ása Baldursdóttir, Hrönn Sveinsdóttir • Distributors, Bíó Paradís

Interview: Ása Baldursdóttir, Hrönn Sveinsdóttir • Distributors, Bíó Paradís

“Our relationship with the audience is like a great love affair”

The two distributors talk us through bringing international and Scandi hits to their audience and their own theatre, Iceland’s only arthouse venue  

22/08/2024 | Distributor of the Month

Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

Interview: Ben Rivers • Director of Bogancloch

"Oftentimes, you look at cinema and it's all about content, or all about the form, but I want them to work together in order to create a universe"

The British filmmaker tells us about his interest in repetition, as evidenced in his latest film, and his editing process  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

Review: Bogancloch

Review: Bogancloch

Ben Rivers’ magnificent feature film invites us to observe the daily life of a character outside of time, a modern-day mystic who lives in accordance with nature’s rhythms  

12/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Competition

REPORT: IceDocs Industry 2024

REPORT: IceDocs Industry 2024

Five projects took part in the workshop tutored by Marta Andreu, including the new film by Gústav Geir Bollason and producer Guðrún Edda Thorhannesdóttir’s first directing effort  

30/07/2024 | IceDocs 2024

Silence of Reason and The Stimming Pool share top prize at IceDocs

Silence of Reason and The Stimming Pool share top prize at IceDocs

In addition to the ex aequo award to Kumjana Novakova and The Neurocultures Collective, winners also include Klára Tasovská's I'm Not Everything I Want to Be  

23/07/2024 | IceDocs 2024 | Awards

Anna Maria Jóakimsdóttir-Hutri  • Director of Who Stands Up for Alvar?

Interview: Anna Maria Jóakimsdóttir-Hutri • Director of Who Stands Up for Alvar?

“How we treat the elderly is a measure of the health of a society”

As her film screens at Karlovy Vary as part of EFP’s Future Frames, we talked to the Icelandic director about the importance of caring for the older generation  

28/06/2024 | Future Frames 2024

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