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- Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
- Based on actual events, a fisherman tries to survive in the freezing ocean after his boat capsizes off the south coast of Iceland.
- 'Burnout' starts with 13-year-old Ayoub's long-sighted look at a shop window. He works as a shoe-shopper, hoping to earn enough money to buy a bone prosthesis for his mother. Director and Scriptwriter Nour Eddine Lakhmari gives perspectives for several different people in the city of Casablanca: a medical student who eventually confronts his privileged customer; Jaguar-driving, confined Jad and his unhappy wife Ines; a whimsical car enthusiast. Life is linked to different urban environments, and 'Burnout' shows how social and economic conditions affect the characters' life situations.
- Two young men decide to spend an archive circle Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of Norway. Their home is built from salvaged material washed up onshore. They surf every day with much time for self reflection.
- A 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...
- Páll 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.
- Regina wants to go to summer camp but her mom can't afford it. She discovers that she can control people by singing and she takes advantage of that. She has a lot of adventures with her friend Peter.
- In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed.
- The story of families living in barracks, left by the US Army in Reykjavik at the conclusion of World War II.
- A German-born Swiss citizen emigrates to the United States in search of a better life and making fortune. Based on the story of John Sutter, gold rush pioneer and founder of what would become the city of Sacramento.
- Kalli, a young boy living with his mother in the suburbs of Reykjavik, thrives in the world of movies and computer games. When he is sent to spend Christmas with his father's new family up north at an isolated farm, Kalli meets his stepsister, who he does not get along with. Soon he decides to run away, but only to be hit harder by reality and Kalli has to learn how to fight "real life" challenges while encountering imaginary and fictional creatures.
- A man is found in an airport, dead of a mysterious disease. A race begins to save humanity from what could be a global plague.
- Jan loves Jasmin, but she has been promised to a Pakistani man who will shortly arrive in Norway to marry her. Under cover of writing a thesis on immigrant stores, Jan gets a job at the store of Allahditta and Yousaf, Jasmin's father and brother-in-law. Yousaf helps Jan become a Muslim so he can have Jasmin, and Jan helps Yousaf prepare for his taxi-driver's test. Jan simultaneously, tries to work on Allahditta's attitude towards mixed marriages, which Allahditta profoundly opposes. This is an unusually warm-hearted and generous comedy which investigates Pakistani-Norwegian cultural differences, and problems related to them, with humour.
- About two sisters, Marie and Ninni, both are pregnant for the first time. After conducting a joint survey, Ninni's child is found dead. Marie and her husband Erik's son is born the same night as Ninni gives birth to her lifeless daughter.
- A 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.
- The 70-year-old French photographer Albert Tueis is preparing an exhibition of his photographic works. Only, he lacks photos that he had taken at the age of 19, while he was a photographer for the French army at the time the war of independence of Morocco, and that were never published. To complete the retrospective of his career, Albert returns to Morocco in search of the negatives he believes to be safely buried in the country. But not everything goes as planned, and the photographer is confronted with the demons of his past...
- This is a love story. A young Norwegian girl falls in love with a Russian POW during WWII. She helps him survive, but later on, after the WWII ends, the lovers are separated, as citizens of mutually unfriendly states. They have to pay a high price for their love.
- 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.
- The teenagers Shirin and Soran are in love, and want to marry, but Shirin's father has arranged her marriage, and forbids them. On her wedding night Soran kidnaps her for them to be together.
- A couple is buried in an avalanche, but their son miraculously succeeds in escaping and is found by a wealthy farmer. Growing up, he falls in love with the farmer's daughter. But one day gypsies comes and recognizes the son as her nephew.
- Abyss portrays an urban reality that is characterized in different ways by migration - people in motion, the transferal of money and power, and the transgressions of the imagination. The characters move around in an exploratory fashion, blurring private and public spaces. The focus is on a woman and her 'negotiations' of the physical and economic surroundings, but the cityscape remains the main protagonist in the film, whereby the city's economical, political and social dynamics appear to have been absorbed into the character's movements, speech and psychology.
- Atle and Knut meets after many years, where things from the past resurfaces and reminds of difficult memories.
- A bricklayer gets a lesson in the laws of physics.
- Tempus Fugit is the story of a psychiatrist caring for an apparently schizophrenic patient. The patient claims to know the exact time of his own death, being in possession of an object, the "Deathcrawler", which can foretell when the user will die. Whether the object merely reads what is already there, or decides the outcome... we don't know.
- Jakobsen lives in a home for the elderly after his wife passed away. His days are spent watching TV or playing bingo, which Jakobsen does not appreciate. However, what he appreciates the least is his roommate, who is annoying, to say the least. One night, Jakobsen runs away dressed only in his pyjamas. He steals a spray can, and becomes a graffiti artist for one night!
- Four ordinary people infected with HIV. They have family, friends and children. Despite fear of death and Aids and numberless new cures that fail to work - It is possible to live a positive life even with HIV.