Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Sjóndeildarhringur

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Bergur Bernburg

Oscar-nominated director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson and co-director Bergur Bernburg helm this lovely documentary portrait of influential Icelandic landscape painter Georg Gudni.

Angels of the Universe

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Baltasar Kormákur

The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.

Sólskinsdrengurinn

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

A Mother's Courage (aka The Sunshine Boy) is a moving, compassionate portrayal of a mother's desperate quest to understand the perplexing condition that controls her son. A journey through different countries, where every stop-over opens a new path into the depths of autism - and places her son in a strikingly different perspective as it reaches the end.

Hringurinn

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Experimental film of a trip around Iceland, filmed on the circular highway with a wide angle lens camera registering one frame every 12 seconds.

Rokk í Reykjavík

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Björk

Rokk í Reykjavík (Rock in Reykjavik) gives a thorough overview of the powerful and expanding rock scene in Iceland. Most of the film consists of performances by a wide variety of rock-groups in various clubs in Reykjavik in 1981-82. There are also interviews with members of the groups representing different views on such features of the rock scene as sex, drugs and politics. 19 groups appear in the film.

Devil's Island

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Baltasar Kormákur, Sigurveig Jónsdóttir

Devil's Island is a bitter sweet tale of Iceland in the fifties. Life is rough in Reykjavik's post-war slum of Camp Thule, where the abandoned US military barracks have been turned into makeshift homes. Struggling wives and their hard-working husbands try to make ends meet. The younger generation dreams of dollars, Rock'n'Roll and the American way of life. To celebrate or to drown their misery - they're never short of a good reason to booze. Devil's Island vividly depicts the everyday life of a wacky family, their neighbours and friends and shows how some of their dreams come true and others don't.

Children of Nature

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Gísli Halldórsson, Sigríður Hagalín

An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.

Enquête sur le monde invisible

Jean-Michel Roux

Vigdis Finnbogadottir, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

A feature length documentary shot in Iceland on mediums and the relationship between humans and invisible beings such as elves ghosts, angels, water monsters and extra-terrestrials. The film is a journey to the frontiers of life questioning the scope of our existence. Are we alone in the universe? If life exists in other dimensions, it's worth knowing more.

Cold Fever

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor

A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.

The Boss of It All

Lars von Trier

Jens Albinus, Peter Gantzler

An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

Bíódagar

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Örvar Jens Arnarson, Rúrik Haraldsson

This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.

Mamma Gógó

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Kristbjörg Kjeld, Hilmir Snær Guðnason

Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While Gógó is continuously getting herself into trouble, of the kind only a person with Alzheimer can, the son, the director, is struggling with financial troubles after his film Children of Nature has flopped in the cinema. As Gógó‘s disease progresses her family decides that it is best for her to move to a nursing home. Gógó and her deceased husband, who appears on the scene, are not happy with that decision. The director is dependent on others when it comes to his finances and when Gógó settles into the nursing home he decides to sell his mother’s apartment and valuable artwork but the profits of the sale help him to get by.

Brennu-njálssaga

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

A tale of how Njál, a character from the Icelandic Sagas, is burned at the stake.

Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Martin Compston, Gary Lewis

Jet lives a joyful life working at a factory with his girlfriend who he's deeply in love with. Shortly after they decide to get married and live together happily ever after her cat, who she has a weird affection for, dies. The girlfriend falls into depression which could (strangely enough) lead to her death and the only way to give her a purpose to live and save her is to tell her the meaning of life.

Skytturnar

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Þórarinn Óskar Þórarinsson, Eggert Guðmundsson

A whale-boat is making its final whaling tour of the season. It pursues and catches a whale, and then proceeds home. The men working on the boat have to find themselves different employment now that the season is over. Among the crew are two friends, Grímur and Bubbi. The film mainly concerns itself with their efforts to make some kind of contact with what is going on in Reykjavik.

Fálkar

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Keith Carradine, Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir

Simon a mysterious man with a past returns to Iceland with the intention to end his no good life. Before he can complete his task he meets a young women DÚA who he believes might be his daughter. When she gets into trouble with the police Simon represses his death wish and decides to help her out. Together they flee to the city of Hamburg and smuggle with them what used to be the greatest export of the Vikings, an Icelandic Falcon. Their plan is to sell it to wealthy Arabs.