Þórður Jónsson

Chasing Birds

Just like holiday dinners, things get complicated when a large group of people realize they're sharing the same table.

Band

Icelandic performance art meets Spinal Tap in this wickedly fun look at women behaving creatively. Three bandmates, Álfrún, Saga and Hrefna, of The Post Performance Blues Band, are tired of playing to audiences of five at their gigs and getting paid in beer. Each of them is staring down 40 and exhausting themselves juggling motherhood and their artistic pursuits. They decide to give themselves one year to either become popstars or quit the band for good. What follows is a make-it-or-break-it story of a band that's not really a band, pursuing a goal that is not actually attainable. Band member and filmmaker Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir puts herself, along with age and gender bias, on stage in this docu-parable about talented but not teenaged women trying to be successful in a youth-obsessed, overnight-success industry. Band allows gifted artists to perform the resilience and sisterhood that truly exists between life's messes, rejections and triumphs.

Beast Slayer

The year is 2038. All of the glaciers have melted and the country is split into islands, but out of the melted glaciers emerge magical beasts.

The Seer and the Unseen

A magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat.

Eat, Grow, Love

Permaculture offers a solution to how we grow our own food by designing systems that are highly productive and regenerative. Eat, Grow, Love travels to six countries to explore how these systems can be implemented in different climates and landscapes – ultimately confirming that permaculture can be a solution wherever you are in the world.