Icelandic submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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- DirectorÁgúst GuðmundssonStarsSigurður SigurjónssonJón SigurbjörnssonJónas TryggvasonAn Icelandic farmer's son has to move from his farm during the depression. He leaves everything to start a new life elsewhere. Set in the crisis years, it describes tension between the farms and cities.
- DirectorÁgúst GuðmundssonStarsArnar JónssonRagnheiður SteindórsdóttirBenedikt SigurðarsonFrom an authentic Viking saga, Outlaw tells the story of a family blood feud, set in 10th century Iceland.
- DirectorHrafn GunnlaugssonStarsBenedikt ÁrnasonAndrea OddsteinsdóttirJúlíus HjörleifssonMidlife crises as seen by Iceland's most controversial film director.
- DirectorEgill EðvarðssonStarsRóbert ArnfinnssonKristin BjarnadóttirÞóra BorgThe old house acquired by Bjorg and her husband Petur slowly takes on menacing proportions once Bjorg is left alone for a few days while Petur is away on business. While she is in the house, she experiences terrible visions of faces screaming - are these ghosts, or unclear memories from her own past? The situation continues to deteriorate, until it looks as though Petur will never return in time to help Bjorg out of her terrors - if he could help at all.
- DirectorHrafn GunnlaugssonStarsJakob Þór EinarssonEdda BjörgvinsdóttirHelgi SkúlasonAn Irish man seeks vengeance against the vikings who killed his parents.
- DirectorÞráinn BertelssonStarsRagnheiður ArnardóttirMaría SigurðardóttirHallmar SigurðssonA young widow moves from abroad to an isolated farm in Iceland.
- DirectorHilmar OddssonStarsEdda Heidrún BackmanÞröstur Leó GunnarssonJóhann SigurðarsonHelgi is a young man that dreams about becoming a writer and returns to his childhood home with his girlfriend Lára. While he's there he becomes obsessed with shooting a reindeer for unclear reasons.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsThorarinn Oskar ThorarinssonEggert GudmundssonHarald G. HaraldssonTwo friends, who are experienced whale hunters, decide to settle down in Rekyavik at the end of the whaling season. During a night on the town, the duo lands in a heap of trouble after they are thrown out of one establishment after another. As events escalate the two men break into a weapons shop and arm themselves with rifles for a confrontation with the police.
- DirectorHrafn GunnlaugssonStarsReine BrynolfssonTinna GunnlaugsdóttirEgill ÓlafssonTrausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. Isold and Trausti are attracted to each other, but Isold was promised to Hjoerleifur - the son of the Bishop (of Iceland) and his powerful wife. However, Isold has a plan...
- DirectorGuðný HalldórsdóttirStarsSigurður SigurjónssonBaldvin HalldórssonMargrét Helga JóhannsdóttirA hapless guy from the city visits an isolated Icelandic seaside settlement. He gradually realizes that the seals are not what they seem, and that two of the inhabitants are magicians, vieing for the favour of a mysterious woman. Liberated from a spell, she proves to be a magician too. Then he falls in love....
- DirectorAri KristinssonStarsSigríður Þórdís BergsdóttirBryndis Petra BragadóttirIngólfur GuðvarðarsonFollows the adventure of a group of kids and a paper boy named Peter. Plane ride, box car racing and bad neighbors are all included.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsGísli HalldórssonSigríður HagalínBaldvin HalldórssonOld Thorgeir must leave his home far off in the Icelandic 'countryside' and move into a home for senior citizens in Reykjavik. There he meets an old friend from his childhood, Stella. Thorgeir soon becomes unhappy living there and together with Stella he steals a jeep. Together they leave the city for Stella's old home in northwestern Iceland. A drama who asks us: how important is it to have a long life if you have to leave everything that has a meaning for you?
- DirectorKristín JóhannesdóttirStarsÁlfrún ÖrnólfsdóttirTinna GunnlaugsdóttirHelgi SkúlasonThe west Coast of Iceland, late summer 1936. On a desolate farm, believed to be cursed since the 14th century, a tragic fate is about to befall the French exploration ship Pourquoi-pas.
- DirectorHrafn GunnlaugssonStarsSteinþór Rafn MatthíassonAlda SigurðardóttirHelgi SkúlasonOn a small island in the west of Island, Gestur, only seven years old, falls in love with 20 years old Helga. When she introduces him her fiancée one day, he decides to fight the competitor with traditional Wicking weapons.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsÖrvar Jens ArnarssonRúrik HaraldssonSigrún HjálmtýsdóttirThe story of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s. Tomas loves the movies and is highly influenced by them.
- DirectorHilmar OddssonStarsÞröstur Leó GunnarssonRuth OlafsdottirWinfried WagnerAbout the Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married the daughter of an industrialist, Annie, who is also a concert pianist. This era was frustrating for Leifs because his works were seldom performed.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsBaltasar KormákurGísli HalldórssonSigurveig JónsdóttirThe story of families living in barracks, left by the US Army in Reykjavik at the conclusion of World War II.
- DirectorJúlíus KempStarsPáll BanineÞóra DungalFinni JohannssonStella, a beauteous 19-year-old, accompanies the stoned Robbi and his more dangerous mate Ulfur when they invade a Reykjavik apartment one night.
- DirectorAri KristinssonStarsBergþóra AradóttirFreydís KristófersdóttirEdda Heidrún BackmanA little girl "kidnaps" her half-sister in order to get the attention of her father who left her mother years ago for another woman (who gave birth to her half-sister).
- DirectorGuðný HalldórsdóttirStarsTinna GunnlaugsdóttirRagnhildur GísladóttirAgneta EkmannerA hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger sister by hiding the shame of her pregnancy.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsIngvar SigurdssonBaltasar KormákurHilmir Snær GuðnasonPáll is an artistic and sensitive young man. Getting dumped by his girlfriend, Dagny, triggers his descent into madness. We follow him on his way to what seems like inevitable doom; at home with his parents who finally can't cope, and in the mental institution, Kleppur.
- DirectorÁgúst GuðmundssonStarsMargrét VilhjálmsdóttirUgla EgilsdóttirHeino FerchPost-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsGunnar EyjólfssonHilmir Snær GuðnasonHélène de FougerollesA rich father in a fisher village plans to take on the project of writing his life story. But first he has to take on his own family, and everybody wants something...
- DirectorDagur KáriStarsTómas LemarquisÞröstur Leó GunnarssonElín HansdóttirIs he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Noi's universe and offer him a window into a better world.
- DirectorHilmar OddssonStarsIngvar SigurdssonUnnur Ösp StefánsdóttirRuth OlafsdottirWhat could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. One that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
- DirectorÁgúst GuðmundssonStarsGísli Marteinn BaldurssonBurkni BirgissonHelga Braga JónsdóttirIn tune with the time, mostly from the same characters as appeared in the film, on top (1982), except what are those characters 22 years older.
- DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsGísli Örn GarðarssonNína Dögg FilippusdóttirÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonKaritas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she's oblivious to what's going on with her twelve year old son Gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction. Gudmund's only friend in the world is Marinó, a schizophrenic in his forties, who lives with his mother in the same apartment building. When Marinó realizes that his mother has secretly been dating a stranger, Marino starts to lose grip on reality. Gardar is an underworld enforcer who makes a mess at work and as a result his twin brother Georg is beaten up. Exiled both from the underworld and his family, Gardar has to make a fresh start in life. He decided to seek out his family, Gardar has to make a fresh start in life. He decided to seek out his son Gudmund whom he has never seen but the straight and narrow is a though path to follow
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsIngvar SigurdssonÁgústa Eva ErlendsdóttirBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonA murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsHilmir Snær GuðnasonMargrét VilhjálmsdóttirLaufey ElíasdóttirIn less than twenty-four hours, a middle-aged academic and his nearly half his age fiancée will get married in Iceland's windswept island, Flatey, amid endless preparations and bitter second thoughts. Is this what they really want?
- DirectorÓskar JónassonStarsBaltasar KormákurIngvar SigurdssonLilja Nótt ÞórarinsdóttirFinancial concerns tempt a security guard to return to his smuggling ways.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsKristbjörg KjeldHilmir Snær GuðnasonGunnar EyjólfssonA film director's personal journey experiencing his mother's disappearance into the Alzheimer disease, a film with essential Fridriksson's ingredients, humour, compassion and strong visual style.