An intense drama of loss, faith, redemption, Megadeth and Judas Priest. METALHEAD begins with a farming accident in the 1980’s that sends a young girl, Hera, and her parents into a tail-spin of grief over the death of her heavy metal music-obsessed older brother. A decade later and Hera has become a surly headbanger and DIY musician. Seemingly trapped in a haunted landscape of slaughterhouses and barren winter fields, making all the wrong choices...

The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the perilous trek to Iceland’s southeastern coast with the intention of establishing a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested...

After moving back home, a man gets sucked into a dispute between his parents and their neighbors over an old and beautiful tree. What starts as a typical spat unexpectedly and violently reaches a boiling point, soon spiraling out of control.

In contemporary rural Iceland, a wayward 9-year old girl, Sól, is sent to distant countryside relatives for a summer to work and to mature. Nature seems endless there, the animals soulful but the people harsh. All except the mysterious farmhand Jón, who – as Sól herself – likes words better than people. But the farmers’ daughter Ásta has a claim on Jón as well, and soon Sól becomes entangled in a drama she hardly can grasp. This summer...

"Inga is a hard-working farmer within a bureaucratic co-operative that operates as a monopoly, pushing her and her community deep into debt. After her husband's suspicious death, Inga learns the true extent of both her powerlessness and her late husband's involvement with the co-op's schemings. With an eye to the future, and with no other option, she aims to chip away at the co-op's domination."--

Iceland's official submission to the Academy Awards® for Best International Feature Film! Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group’s behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Can his newfound...

"In rural Iceland, Maria and her husband make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature in this dark and atmospheric folktale, the striking debut feature from director Valdimar Jóhannsson."--Container.

When Hildur, a beautiful high-society girl and a regular guest in the national celebrity press, finds out that her boyfriend Jolli is about to go to jail, she realizes she has to learn to stand on her own two feet, and quickly. Hildur, possessing no skills that she knows of, or any practical experience, tries to find work without success. She's about to give up when by pure coincidence she lands a job selling roleplaying books and accessories at the...

"Struggling to stay on the straight and narrow and feed his family on a security guard's meager wage, former booze smuggler Christopher (Baltasar Kromákur) agrees to work one last job with a shady old friend. But as their ship of illicit cargo sails from Iceland to Holland, Christopher finds himself in greater peril than ever before." -- Container.

Iceland's official submission to the Academy Awardsʼ for Best International Feature Film! Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group's behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Can his newfound intuition...