Hafsteinn Gunnar Hafsteinsson

The Wedding Gift

The Wedding Gift tells a tale of a mother, a son and his wife and a sewing machine. Filmed almost entirely in a car, the cramped space gives tension to both the bumpy journey to a wedding and the characters’ psychology.

Impact

On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven men on board, five lived. This is the remarkable story of the heroic rescue mission that brought them home.

Waste

Waste takes place in an imaginary civil war in the hitherto peaceful and pacifist Icelandic society. The film tells the story of a soldier who increasingly questions the usefulness and purpose of wars.

Axlar-bjorn

The harrowing true story of Bjorn Petursson, who murdered farmhands and travlers in 16th-century Iceland.