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In an interview last night with RUV TV’s Kastljós, director Helgi Felixson said that one of his subjects, business tycoon Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson, had demanded the complete removal of his interview from Felixson’s documentary, God Bless Iceland, due to Felixson’s use of footage filmed without Jóhannesson’s knowledge. Felixson defended his…
Family comedy The Big Rescue by Bragi Thór Hinriksson premiered on Thursday and has had a spectacular weekend nationwide with more than 8.000 admissions. This is one of the biggest openings of an Icelandic film on record. The movie, based on popular children’s show Algjör Sveppi, stars Sverrir Thór Sverrisson…
The Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) handed out its prizes in a ceremony at Reykjavik City Hall yesterday evening. The Golden Puffin (Discovery of the Year) went to 20 year old director and this year’s Director’s Fortnight winner Xavier Dolan for his debut film, I Killed My Mother (J´ai Tué…
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s documentary, The Sunshine Boy, recently screened at The Toronto International Film Festival, gets a glowing review in Variety, with the critic John Anderson describing it as “an extraordinarily beautiful docu: Fridriksson frames everything as if it were a romantic feature, and despite the deluge of often dry…
The family adventure comedy The Big Rescue (Algjör Sveppi og leitin að Villa) by Bragi Thór Hinriksson premieres on September 25th. Based on popular TV show “Algjör Sveppi”, starring comedian Sverrir Thór Sverrisson, the film is described as an action-packed adventure for the whole family. The production company is Hinriksson’s MPFactory with distributor/exhibitor Samfilm co-producing.
God Bless Iceland, the new documentary by Helgi Felixson, on the dramatic crash of the Icelandic economy last fall and its effects on the people, will premiere in Iceland on October 6th. The doc is the first of many expected in the coming months on the subject. The production company is Felixfilm, Sweden.
Óskar Jónasson’s Reykjavik Rotterdam will be Iceland’s contribution to the Academy Awards preselection in the foreign picture category. The film premiered in Iceland at the beginning of October last year. The Oscars ceremony will be held on Sunday March 7th 2010 in Los Angeles. The Edda Awards to be held…
Dagur Kári’s third feature, The Good Heart, starring Brian Cox and Paul Dano, had its international premiere at The Toronto International Film Festival last Thursday and features also in the competition at The Deauville American Film Festival in France. In October the film will play at Pusan International Film Festival.…
Nordisk Panorama, the short and documentary film festival, will open its 20th anniversary edition in Reykjavík on September 25th. Since 1989 the festival has rotated annually between the five Nordic countries; Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Around 400 guests are expected from abroad and last time the festival was…
