bits and pieces from the northern island.
This Thursday, at 8 pm, Mini-Ciné Reykjavík will be screening Gillies MacKinnon’s Hideous Kinky. The film, an adaptation from Esther Freud’s (great-granddaughter of a certain Sigmund) autobiographical novel bearing the same title, follows a woman and her two young daughters in their attempt to break free from the dreary lifestyle of urban England in the … Read the full article →
For all the Japanophiles and cinephiles of Iceland, we want to bring to your attention: from March 10 to 13, 2011, at the Bíó Paradís a retrospective by the title Grín og gaman frá Japan is going to take place every day with screenings of a selection of Japanese films. Among them, one of the … Read the full article →
We would like to inform our readers about another important event that is opening this week and should not be overlooked. The Reykjavík Shorts & Docs Film Festival 2011 is going to take place at the Bíó Paradís from January 27 to January 31, 2011. The festival was born in 2001 thanks to the efforts … Read the full article →
Alliance Française and the French and the Canadian Embassies in Iceland, together with Græna Ljósið and Háskólabíó, present the 11th edition of the Festival du Film Francophone. The festival is going to take place at the Háskólabíó in Reykjavík from January 21 to February 3; it will then move to Akureyri during the period between … Read the full article →
Conspiracies are not the result of our contemporary times, therefore conspiracy theories are likewise not a recent invention of the media. Man has been bathing himself in conspiratorial activities, both actual or just imagined, for so long a time that this tendency has become integral part of his way of establishing relations with reality. Every … Read the full article →
We had occasion to talk about Bíódagar earlier this year. Græna Ljósið presents us now with a selection of seven documentaries released during the year 2010 and they will be screened from the 12th of November at the Bíó Paradís. These are the featured documentaries: Feathered Cocaine – Ö. M. Arnarson, T. S. Hardarson (Iceland … Read the full article →
Kinosmiðja is an open studio for DIY filmmakers. Their aim is the study and the actualization of the processes involving filmmaking, especially on an totally independent level, with a low budget and the most varied purposes and media. Among the activities promoted by Kinosmiðja, you will find the KinoKlubbúr, a nomadic cine club in Iceland … Read the full article →
North Iraq, 2003, two weeks after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Ahmed (Yassir Taleeb) is a twelve-year-old boy. His only relative is his grandmother (Shehzad Hussen), an old woman of Kurdish lineage. They are traveling together looking for Ibrahim, Ahmed’s father, who was forced to join the Gulf War years before and never returned. A letter testifies … Read the full article →