Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir
2021Úr öskunni í eldinn
Oskar Jónasson
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir
A streetsweeper finds a unconscious woman while cleaning the streets and decides to help her out by bringing her to his home, but little does he know that the woman is lives a life of crime.
Out of the ash and into the fire
Búi
Inga Lísa Middleton
Anja Sæberg, Bjarni Kristbjörnsson
Nine-year-old Anna has moved to a new town. Anna's mother sends her out to make some friends, but the children in the playground are unwelcoming. Apart from one boy, Búi. He encourages Anna to do a heroic deed, to show the other children what she's made of.
Búi
Heartstone
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.
Heartstone
Parents
Ragnar Bragason
Edda Arnljótsdóttir, Reine Brynolfsson
The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. Einar is a stockbroker who is very successful at work but not in his personal life. For the last couple of months Einar has been living at a hotel waiting for his wife to realize the terrible mistake she made by throwing him out. Katrin Rose returns from Sweden where she has lived for eight years. In Iceland Katrin has an eleven-year-old son, brought up by his grandmother and now Katrin wants him back. Katrin gets a job as a dentist's assistant intending to make a fresh start but her troubled past catches up with her.
Parents
Sparrows
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Atli Óskar Fjalarsson, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
Sparrows
Black's Game
Óskar Thór Axelsson
Thor Kristjansson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
In the mid to late '90s, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld.
Black's Game
Af hreinu hjarta
Haukur Björgvinsson
Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir, Bríet Elfar
Young couple Anna and Gunnar live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse in a lottery every seven years. Full of heartache, the couple faces their biggest fear in the face of life with a new partner.
Heartless
Paris of the North
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Björn Thors, Helgi Björnsson
Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit.
Paris of the North
Brim
Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir
The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this routine is shaken to its foundation when one of the most solid crew members commits suicide. To fill his gap, a young woman takes his place on the next tour and gradually the fragile balance is tipped, and personal issues that should be left on the mainland cause dangerous friction between the crew members
Undercurrent
L'effet aquatique
Sólveig Anspach
Samir Guesmi, Florence Loiret Caille
Samir, a lanky crane operator in Montreuil, falls madly for Agathe. As master swimmer at the pool Thorez he decides to take swimming lessons with her. But the lie does not last three lessons - Agathe hate liars. Chosen to represent the Seine-Saint-Denis, Agathe flies to Iceland for the 10th Congress of the International Masters Swimming. Samir has no choice but to fly in turn also.
The Together Project
OPERATION NAPOLEON
Óskar Thór Axelsson
Wotan Wilke Möhring, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson
A modern-day lawyer is sucked into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of freedom lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII aeroplane, long buried deep beneath the ice, before the CIA.
Operation Napoleon
Girls on Film 2: Before Dawn
Max Disgrace, Hope Dickson Leach
An electric collection of the latest, award-winning lesbian and feminist short films exploring fantasies, dreams, desires, love and transgression. Featuring chance encounters, teenage lust, girl fighters, self-conscious dolls and rampant zombies alongside journeys of self-discovery, the fight for equality and a playful take on stereotypes. GIRLS ON FILM 2: BEFORE DAWN takes you on an incredible adventure from America to Australia through Iceland, the UK and Algeria into worlds beyond.
Girls on Film 2: Before Dawn
Pabbahelgar
Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir
All she wanted was to do something nice for her better half when he woke up on his birthday. But morning breath won’t be the only problem to be solved. An unerringly accurate and relentlessly honest comedy, brilliantly and unpretentiously acted by director Magnúsdóttir herself. The short film kicks off the TV series by the same name.
Happily Never After
