Film

Icelandic filmmakers seem to tend to focus on outsiders, quirky characters caught up in strange events – offering the opportunity to explore the weird aspects of the characters. To a foreigner's eye, this manifestation of imagination amid Icelandic nature may verge on the surreal.

With their interplay of folklore and present-day reality, tradition and globalisation, together with long scenes and a minimum of special effects, Icelandic films present the exotic in a paradoxically straightforward way, in the spirit of magical realism.

For more information about Icelandic films today, visit the Icelandic Film Centre website

Exhibition at the Culture House

On March 28, 2010, the exhibition ICELAND:: FILM was opened at the Culture House in Reykjavík. The exhibition, which spans the history of film in Iceland from its beginnings around 1904 to 2009, will be open in Reykjavík until February 2011. It will re-open in Frankfurt in connection with the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair.