The Grand Prix Awards – the Golden Angel of Tofifest – flies to Iceland. The awards of the 13th edition of the Tofifest International Film Festival in Torun were given on Saturday (24th October 2015), during the Closing Ceremony. The winner of the ON AIR main competition turned out to be Rams by Grímur Hákonarson. The other awards given in international competitions were given to filmmakers from Colombia, Costa Rica, Israel, and Great Britain. The decision to make Ra...

The festival will be celebrated on the weekend of the 15th -17th of October in Grundarfjörðu, Iceland and we are now open for entries. The deadline for foreign films is on the 1st of July 2015 but Icelandic short films and music videos is on the 1st of August 2015. The Festival will be celebrated from the 16th to the 18th of October 2015. We are looking forward to receiving your films. Click here to submit your film. ...

Once again a debut film, Benedikt Erlingsson’s Of Horses and Men (Hross I Oss, shown out of competition, produced by acclaimed Icelandic producer and filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, who was a member of this year FFM’s jury) is a piece that is very difficult to write about... Why? Because it is one of those rare films that have to be seen in order to be properly experienced. Or, probably because this is not just a great piece – this is a masterpiece! It’s a true excit...

The deadline for the Northern Wave International Film Festival is coming up in only a week. Check out our website and send your film to Iceland. www.northernwavefestival.com ...

  When a filmmaker draws on his own experience to the extent that Icelandic director Fridrik Thor Fridriksson has done in his wonderful memory film MAMMA GOGO, the intimacy of the revelations is almost disarmingly intimate. The prolific director, probably the best known from his native country and one of the most consistent in Scandinavia cinema, takes his audience on a personal journey as the film’s protagonist, a filmmaker himself, becomes immersed in the downward spiral of his mothe...