Welcome
Welcome to the Icelandic Film Centre website. Here you will find information about the Icelandic Film Centre and how it works. The centre supports the production, distribution and promotion of Icelandic films and gathers and publishes information relevant to the film industry. Further, the centre works to advance film culture in Iceland and encourage stronger links between Icelandic filmmakers and the international film community.
NEWS
VIRGIN MOUNTAIN in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival
Virgin Mountain, the new film from Icelandic writer/director Dagur Kári, has been selected for the World Narrative competition at the Tribeca Film Festival, which will take place in New York April 15 – 26. The festival was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal, among others.
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Inaugural Stockfish festival opens strong in Bíó Paradís
The first edition of the Stockfish European
Film Festival in Reykjavík is currently being held in Bíó Paradís, Reykjavík's
art-house cinema, and other locations around town. The festival, a nonprofit
event organized by Iceland's professional filmmaking guilds, began on February
19th and concludes on March 1st. The festival's stated
aim is to bring the best in recent European and world cinema to Icelandic
audiences and to foster greater dialogue and cooperation between the domestic
and foreign film industries.
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Edda Awards 2015 – LIFE IN A FISHBOWL the big winner of the ceremony
Life in a Fishbowl by Baldvin Z won the Edda Award for Feature Film of the Year. The film received 12 Eddas in total at the ceremony, this year's festival's highest tally and a new record at the Edda Awards, including Director of the Year, Screenplay of the Year and Actor of the Year. Life in a Fishbowl is produced by Ingvar Thórdarson and Júlíus Kemp for the Icelandic Film Company.
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