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Two world premieres among Smart7 travelling festival competition line-up
Seven titles will screen at seven European film festivals, competing for a €5,000 prize.
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Reviews
‘The Home Game’: Glasgow Review
A small Icelandic town prepares to host an FA Cup match in this feel-good documentary
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Fremantle secures global rights to Constantin’s film and series fantasy saga ‘Hagen’
The production shot at the Czech Republic’s Barrandov Studios and on location in Iceland.
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Features
From frozen corpses to “plumper” polar bears: the VFX that shaped ‘True Detective: Night Country’
VFX supervisor Barney Curnow breaks down the most gruesome and snowiest scenes.
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Nordic Film Composers Award goes to ‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ composer
“Special, because it is melting together human voices, rhythmic, yet fleshy sounds.”
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Bankside boards hot Icelandic volcano thriller ‘The Fires’ (exclusive)
Director Ugla Hauksdóttir’s previous credits include TV series ‘The Power’.
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Reviews
‘Eternal’: Rotterdam Review
Eco-disaster sci-fi from Denmark starring pop singer Oh Land is also an off-beat love story
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Lasse Hallstrom to make series debut with Icelandic thriller ‘The Darkness’ for CBS Studios
English language series stars Lena Olin and will film in Iceland later this year.
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Reykjavik film festival celebrates 20th anniversary
Source: RIFF ‘Solitude’ Reykjavik International Film Festival (September 28-October 8) is planning a busy 20th edition, with honorary awards going to Isabelle Huppert, Luca Guadagnino, Vicky Krieps, Nicolas Philibert, Luc Jacquet and Catherine Breillat, who will all come to the Icelandic capital. A delegation from Cannes will ...
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IceDocs gives top prize to ‘Against The Tide’, launches first industry programme
Iceland Documentary Film Festival ran July 19-23.
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Baldvin Z’s Icelandic hit series ‘Black Sands’ readies second season with All3Media (exclusive)
The first season sold widely around the world.
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Truenorth launches Icelandic talent agency (exclusive)
One of the first clients is Rúnar Ingi Einarsson of company Norður, who is in Cannes as producer of Intrusion (Fár).
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Jodie Foster appears at Iceland’s Stockfish Film Festival, Mike Downey honoured
Foster took part in the Reykjavik festival’s panel discussion about women’s progress in the film industry.
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Reviews
‘Northern Comfort’: SXSW Review
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s English-language comedy about a bunch of stranded aerophobes struggles to land
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Gisli Snaer appointed new director of Icelandic Film Centre (exclusive)
Snaer was previously director and CEO of the London Film School until he stepped down in May 2022.
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New team including ‘Lamb’ producer takes over at Iceland’s Stockfish festival (exclusive)
Career achievement award, physical cinema sidebar and Slovakian collaboration planned for 2023.
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Features
70 European and Mena films to tempt festival directors in 2023
Jessica Hausner, Marco Bellocchio, Michel Gondry and Lone Scherfig are among the auteurs with new films this year.
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HBO’s ‘True Detective 4’ becomes first recipient of Iceland’s new 35% incentive as local industry booms (exclusive)
The series is party shooting at Baltasar Kormakur’s RVK Studios and is doubling Iceland for Alaska.
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Reviews
‘Driving Mum’: Tallinn Review
Icelandic winner of Tallinn’s top prize is a road movie from beyond - or before - the grave
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‘Summerlight And Then Comes The Night’: Tallinn Review
Elfar Adalsteins returns home to Iceland to adapt the popular source novel by Jon Kalman