The Circus Director
The Circus Director is a film about Tilde Björfors the director of a circus who faced her fears and threw herself into the unknown. She brought contemporary circus to Sweden …
Section: Icelandic Panorama
RIFF is the meeting point of Icelandic and international cinema. Icelandic Panorama presents new films that have strong Icelandic connections.
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.
Between Heaven and Earth
Sometimes the most unexpected roads in life are in the detours you didn’t mean to take. A gripping drama follows the troubled relationship of a married couple. As they start …
A Song Called Hate
200 million are watching! A reality facing the Icelandic Eurovision entry in 2019, who are determined to politicise the non-political song contest. As Hatari try to change the world, A …
Lobster Soup
Every morning Krilli prepares the many ingredients of Bryggjan’s lobster soup, a tiny cafe in a small town in Iceland. Alli, Krilli’s brother, sits with the old fishermen, the last …
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 …
The School of Housewives
This film is a unique contemporary documentary about the Reykjavík Housewives School running since 1942 and still open for those students who are interested, despite the uncertainty about its future …
Sisters: Dreams & Variations
Quirky and insightful artist sisters Tyr and Jasa are inspired by their great-grandmother’s recordings of Icelandic folk songs. They journey to Iceland for the first time and collaborate on a …
The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole
This new Icelandic documentary is directed by Andri Snær Magnason & Anní Ólafsdóttir and produced by Elsku Rut, Ground Control Productions & Ursus Parvus. Part road movie, part musical, part …
