ICN is back and catching up on the fall releases of Icelandic films. 2010 was a busy year with a total of ten features and fifteen documentaries (eight full-length) screened at the cinemas. We've already reported on features Mamma Gógó, The Good Heart, King's…
A new independent cinema, Bíó Paradís (lit. Cinema Paradise), has opened for business in downtown Reykjavik. This is the first cinema in Iceland that's dedicated to screening the latest in world cinema, and repertory cinema. It will also be the home of Reykjavik film festivals and feature a…
The 7th Reykjavik International Film Festival opened yesterday and goes on till October 3rd. This is the largest film festival Iceland has ever mounted with around 140 films screened in 11 days plus various lectures, workshops and events. The guest of honour is renowned independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch.…
Shooting has wrapped on Hafsteinn G. Sigurdsson's debut feature, Either Way (Á annan veg). Filmed in the summer in the mountains of the Northwest, it's described as a low-key road movie with an eighties setting. The drama comedy deals with two road builders who are stuck with each other in…
Documentary Future of Hope by Henry Bateman and Heather Millard will be released nationwide by Sena from September 3rd. Film focuses on sustainability in Iceland, looking at Iceland, in the aftermath of the economic crash, as a microcosm for the rest of the world and features new developments in renewable energy, organic farming, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Inhale, the US-produced film by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger, is out on DVD in Holland and the trailer (with Dutch subtitles) can be seen here. It’s not clear when the film will be released Stateside or in Europe. Cinematography and editing by fellow Icelanders Óttar Gudnason and Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir.
The Hollywood Reporter reviews Valdís Óskarsdóttir's King's Road, recently screened at Locarno, and offers that "the film could be taken as a penetrating satire of all that went wrong in that country's financial meltdown as much as a genially whacky little romp." It also hails the director for…
Director Hilmar Oddsson (December) has been appointed Rector of The Icelandic Film School. Oddsson finished his education in film directing from the Munich Film Academy in 1986 and has since been one of the most active filmmakers in Iceland. He has directed
Director Fridrik Thór Fridriksson received a lifetime achievement award from the Association of Czech Film Clubs for his contribution to world cinema at the 36th Summer Film School Festival (July 22-31) in the Czech Republic. The festival did a major retrospective of Fridriksson's oeuvre and also included a…
Valdís Óskarsdóttir's King's Road has been selected for competition at the Festival del Film Locarno (August 4-14). King‘s Road takes part in the Filmmakers of the Present program, where it will compete against other first or second films from directors all over the world. Óskarsdóttir…
