Soul of the lands
In Iceland, a group of people who participated at the first sweat lodge, the Native American ritual which was brought there over 25 years ago, recall that experience analyzing its …
Premiere: World Premiere
Reykjavik City Symphony
Inspired by the city symphonies of the 1920’s and 1930’s, this short film documents Reykjavik city during the summer. Free from the constraints of narrative filmmaking conventions, the film carefully …
Happy Birthday
Katla had always felt different from others. When no one shows up for her birthday her mother gives her a box to put away negative emotions. When she turns thirty …
Kitchen by Measure
Ingólfur, an inventive Icelander, gets hooked on the idea of building the perfect kitchen for his wife. The story explores gender roles of the past and how they are surprisingly …
Shadowtown
Maya discovers a 50-year-old tragedy that is still affecting her life today when she inherits a house from a schizophrenic grandmother she never met.
Against The Current
The transgender woman Veiga Grétarsdóttir decides to take on the dangerous adventure of sailing counter clockwise around Iceland on a kayak. Her journey is symbolic to her journey through a …
Island Living
In a remote village in the East Fjords, an inventive boy, frustrated with the slow village lifestyle, embarks on a journey of musical discovery. Joined by a new friend, he …
Ndagukunda Déjà / I love you always
After meeting his Rwandan father in Montreal for the first time at 28 years of age, Québécois journalist Sébastien Desrosiers sets off, in this 25th year anniversary of the genocide, …
Heaven Reaches Down to Earth
We find Heaven Reaches Down to Earth at a crossroads of emerging stories: queerness in Africa, the traditional expectations of men within those African cultures, and the isolation that many …
Monday
Six-year-old Úlfur is having trouble adjusting to school. Ari, a young teacher, struggles to teach his uninterested 9th-grade class. Matilda, a foreign school worker, is worried about her daughter growing …
