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…
