Movies: Ingvar E. Sigurðsson

A group of icelandic actors and comedians satirize the events of 2001....

The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he fin...

When Peter is called to work on his day-off a chain of events starts to unravel that effect him and the people around him....

A Kosovo-Albanian motorbike courier in London escapes the law after killing a Serb and goes on a road trip to Africa with his girlfriend in search of his missing brother....

Ingaló is helping her father on his small fishing boat, but he's an obstinate character and relations between them are tense. After a dance in the village which ends in a fight between the local people and crew of Matthildur ÍS 167, a visiting fishin...

In midwinter the German illusionist Dirk Ohm arrives in the small town Grong, a place ridden by the disappearance of a young local woman Maria. Dirk soon finds himself searching for Maria side by side with the villagers of Grong; and slowly he falls ...

TV movie based on the first chapters of the Icelandic Brennu-Njáls saga...

1999's Áramótaskaup, an annual 50-minute TV movie, satirizing the events of the past year....

Anna Hallgrimsdottir, a poetess, dish washer and marijuana dealer in her late thirties, lives in Reykjavik with her two sons, Krummi and Ulfur. Anna is tired of her lifestyle and the coldness of Iceland and wishes to show her sons more of the world. ...

The battle of two great chess players to mentally overpower one another takes on a dimension of life-or-death physicality as their duel begins to echo with the violent sounds of warfare from centuries past....

A little girl "kidnaps" her half-sister in order to get the attention of her father who left her mother years ago for another woman (who gave birth to her half-sister)...

Lisa wants to take a cruise, hubby Finnbogi schemes to make money. He buys a dilapidated bakery. They get lucky when Karolina, who bakes great cakes, offers to work for them. She's the mother of Marta, head of the area's largest bakery, and the two h...

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The Magician is a strong and personal story, about how one‘s imagination can help make unbearable situation bearable....

A troubled CEO visits a tarot card reader in a desperate attempt to avert his fate. In a parallel world, Odin, the father of the Viking gods, has sought out a Wise Woman to hear her knowledge. Based on an ancient Norse saga called Voluspa, this story...

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Emily is a young boy that dreams about owning a dog and he starts working so he can save up to buy one. Meanwhile his family are dealing with money problems....

Follows the infamous Sólborgarcase where a mother and her brother were accused of killing their newborn....

The excitedly physical staging of Georg Buchner’s tragic and fragmented play about a young man struggling to make the best from what life has dealt him. A hostage to fortune, class and his sadistic superiors, Woyzeck’s fate is played out in a series ...

A middle aged man visits the house of the Icelandic Nobel prize winner Halldor Laxness and his wife Audur and finds room for self expression in their absence. What, if anything, did he leave behind?...