Erlendur Sveinsson Movies

In the mid to late '90s, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...

Vala and Benni are on the road and struggle to find a mutual purpose in their new destination.

At a local party in the suburbs of Reykjavik, Hanna (19) and Jonas (20) escape into the laundry room to share an intimate moment, but when boundaries...

The 11 year old Breki is at constant odds with his older sister Bergdís, but all he wants is her validation. One day when she is out, Breki...

Alice is a college freshman aiming for law school. On the day her financial aid is cut, her secret identity is revealed to her classmates.

A film made on the 1100 year anniversary of the settlement of Iceland which gives an overview of Icelandic society and the natural kingdom which...

Secrets and butterflies make for one hell of a dinner conversation.

A documentary film about the remote island of Grímsey, the people that live there and the islands copious birdlife.

Auður tries to get acclimated to the life on a small island, away from the stress of a modern community.

Educational film about the freezing industry in Iceland in 1981. This documentary illustrates the diffrent stages in processing of fish, from the...

A documentary about life in a fishing village showing the people's dependence on the sea (filmed in Ólafsvík).

This corporate documentary describes one year in the production of herring, starting with marketing speculations and research of the year's possible...

The film is divided in four parts and traces the history of the Icelandic fishing industry from the Middle Ages to the present day.

A film about the "Icelanders' Day" in Gimli in Manitoba in 1975, commemorating the 100 year settlement of Icelanders in Canada.

This film is about the painter Sveinn Björnsson (1925-1997), and his struggles to perfect his art. Following a wide-ranging exhibition at the...

This one winter's day encapsulates a thousand years fishing and seamanship in Iceland. We gain an insight into an inner and outer world, where manual...

All marketing is done through Coldwater Seafood Corporation, which is an affiliated company of the Icelandic Freezing Plants Corp. Coldwater also own...

A documentary about a pioneer of Icelandic film making, Óskar Gíslason, with excerpts from some of his most famous work.

A film about the Snæfellsnes glacier and various mysterious phenomena which are associated with this area.