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Júlíus Kemp

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Júlíus Kemp (born 2 December 1967) is an Icelandic film director and producer. He is an award-winning director of music videos. In November 1997 his film Blossi/810551 (1997) was selected as the Icelandic entry for the 1998 Academy Awards. In 1998 he made the short film The Happy End, which was selected in competition at Toronto Int. Short Film Festival. In 2000 he produced and shot the box office hit _Icelandic Dream, The (2000)_, nominated for 4 Edda Awards (Icelandic Oscars) including Best Picture, and selected in competition for Best Nordic Film at Gothenburg Film Festival 2001, and in official selection at: Edinburg 2001, Toronto 2001, Pusan 2001, etc. In 2002 Kemp released a new movie with Icelandic Dream director, Robert I. Douglas, _Man like me, A (2002)_, starring Icelandic comedian 'Jon Gnarr' and Hong Kong actress/pop singer Stephanie Che.

02-12-1967

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Sagittarius

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Reykjavik, Iceland

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producer

26 Works

director

41 Works

writer

4 Works

other

3 Works

Odd Fish

Odd Fish

Two childhood friends get a long-awaited opportunity to found and run a seafood restaurant together. When one of them comes out of the closet as a trans woman, their friendship gets tested.
0.0

Year:

2024

Top 10 Must

Top 10 Must

The life path of a middle-aged woman and a stubborn refugee prisoner travel across the country in search of adventure while they still can.
0.0

Year:

2024

Skinny Love

Skinny Love

When Emilý, a twenty-five year old content creator, learns that her long-distance girlfriend wants to move to Iceland and make their open relationship exclusive, she must face her anxieties about the future. All the while trying to support her teenaged co-worker and battle financial difficulties.
0.0

Year:

2024

12 Hours to Destruction

12 Hours to Destruction

In the early summer of 1980, eleven-year-old Hanna and the rest of her childhood band aim to bring criminals to justice when a threat to destroy the last dance of school comes their way. Their ensuing adventure pits good vs. evil and disco vs. punk, and ends with love and unity conquering all.
3.0

Year:

2022

The Wait

The Wait

The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend arrives at the island.
5.5

Year:

2022

Let Me Fall

Let Me Fall

When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross again, and a reckoning between them becomes unavoidable.
6.1

Year:

2018

Unknown Soldier

Unknown Soldier

The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
7.5

Year:

2017

Pop Up Art Festival

Pop Up Art Festival

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0.0

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2016

The Grump

The Grump

A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.
6.8

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2014

Life in a Fishbowl

Life in a Fishbowl

Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and drinks himself to death over a twenty-year period.
6.8

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2014

Frost

Frost

A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar, wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly force.
4.6

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2012

Mona

Mona

MONA is a modern and thrilling drama with erotic and fantasy elements. In a rural area where a slaughterhouse is the only industry lives a mysterious nature child Mona. The dull routine of villagers is broken by a city businessman Thomas who comes there for his uncle’s funeral and to sell the inherited estate. Meeting Mona throws Thomas in a dangerous maelstrom of illusions, passion and obsession.
6.0

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2012

Santa's Night Out

Santa's Night Out

A festive horror short about a drunken Santa and his elf.
0.0

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2011

Legacy

Legacy

Karl, a skipper on a fishing boat, longs for a son to carry on the family legacy - fishing and soccer. When his dream is finally within reach, Karl must challenge family and friends who are weary of this delicate father and son relationship.
0.0

Year:

2011

Jitters

Jitters

An unexpected first kiss causes Gabriel to feel the electrifying "jitters" of love and lust with the free-spirited Marcus; a perfect way to end a Summer studying abroad. Realizing he is gay, Gabriel returns home and is immediately scrutinized by his family and friends who notice he’s different. But as the school year launches with Gabriel distracted with parties and his friends’ own dramas, Marcus returns, reigniting the hot, thrilling emotions of one’s first crush. Jitters fires head-first into the topsy-turvy world of first love with an attractive cast and pulsating soundtrack, making it a smartly refreshing journey into the queer, teen experience.
6.0

Year:

2010

Utopia

Utopia

A student in politics, Jón, is covering for his friend from school as an assistant in the kitchen of a remotely situated home for the disabled for one weekend. Strange working procedures at the home come to Jón´s attention. Disputes seem to be resolved by a secret voting and Jón thinks democracy is threatened. But all is not what it seems.
0.0

Year:

2010

Utopia

Utopia

A student in politics, Jón, is covering for his friend from school as an assistant in the kitchen of a remotely situated home for the disabled for one weekend. Strange working procedures at the home come to Jón´s attention. Disputes seem to be resolved by a secret voting and Jón thinks democracy is threatened. But all is not what it seems.
0.0

Year:

2010

How to Win a Lost Game

How to Win a Lost Game

A film about boys who bring the struggle for their lives onto the soccer field. Hope springs eternal but here hope is a struggle with oneself and with despair. The boys tell their story from within, the story of how the light pushes the darkness out of the way, without self-pity or evasion. They have exhausted every venue. Therefore the true facts stand naked. Marvelous people. Fascinating characters.
0.0

Year:

2009

Dark Floors

Dark Floors

A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
4.9

Year:

2008

Hotel Earth

Hotel Earth

Three children take their grandfather to the graveyard to visit their dead grandmother. When they find out that granddad is tired of living and is actually waiting to die the children get confused, especially the youngest one. Granddad has to find a way to explain to her that death is not the worst thing in the world, which starts a chain of bizarre events. This becomes a learning full experience for the youngest one, even though it leads to a tragic ending.
0.0

Year:

2008

Stutt kvikmynd án titils

Stutt kvikmynd án titils

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0.0

Year:

2005

Eleven Men Out

Eleven Men Out

The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism
5.8

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2005

A Man Like Me

A Man Like Me

A postal worker falls in love with the Chinese waitress at a Chinese restaurant. They start dating and quickly fall in and out of love, the waitress returning to China. The young man looks for comfort in his father but he's too preoccupied with winning the Eurovision song contest. After listening to loser friends talk about what Sylvester Stallone would do in his situation, the postal worker decides to buy a ticket to China and follow his love to her home.
6.8

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2002

The Icelandic Dream

The Icelandic Dream

A business man and weekend dad is getting worn down by family trouble, business failure and the continuous loss of his favorite football team. He decides to start importing Bulgarian energy cigarettes in a last ditch attempt at success ... his best friend soon advises that suicide might be his best option.
8.3

Year:

2000

The Happy End

The Happy End

A middle aged worker does all he can to provide his wife and daughter with good living conditions. They are ungrateful and do not return his affections. When he has an accident at work and goes home in the afternoon, he finds the time to think about how to solve the communication problems in his family. This takes however an unforeseen route.
0.0

Year:

1998

The Inventor

The Inventor

Eggert V. Briem born 1986 in Iceland, is a self taught scientist and inventor. A hundred years later he reflects on time past: The years in Germany during WW I, his invention on the airplane's autopilot, the depression in USA, Einstain's theory of Relativity, late marriage in USA, the solitude and the meeting with his best friend.
0.0

Year:

1992