KVIKMYNDAPOD: An Icelandic Cinema Podcast
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KVIKMYNDAPOD: An Icelandic Cinema Podcast
@kvikmyndapod.bsky.social
A podcast exploring the world of films from the extraordinary country of Iceland. 🇮🇸
With robwatts88.bsky.social and Ellie Cawthorne
🔗 www.linktr.ee/kvikmyndapod
Some excellent weekend Icelandic film purchases!

Thanks to Fopp Covent Garden.

#theoath #heartstone #eiðurinn #hjartasteinn #iceland
March 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🚨🚨New Episode Alert 🚨🚨

Rob and Ellie travel across continents and decades for Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘Touch’, or ‘Snerting’ from 2024.

A gorgeous and gentle long-lost love story, set in modern Iceland and Japan and 1960s London.

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#iceland #worldcinema #japan #film
February 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
S03E06 - Heartstone (2016) Hjartasteinn

Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson's debut is a beautiful coming-of-age drama set in the remote fishing village of Seyðisfjörður. Þór and Kristján negotiate their teenage emotions and sexual urges…

open.spotify.com/episode/3fpr...

#iceland #filmsky #ísland
February 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
S03E05 - Metalhead (2013) Málmhaus

Ragnar Bragason's film stars Thora Bjorg Helga as Hera, a young lady who witnesses her brother's death and finds solace in the music of the bands he loved - Judas Priest, Megadeth, Teaze etc.

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#iceland #filmsky #ísland #metal
February 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
S03E04— Of Horses and Men (2008) Hross í oss

Director Benedikt Erlingsson's feature debut is a series of darkly comic beautifully shot interconnected vignettes that demonstrate just how integral horses are to rural Icelandic life.

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#iceland #filmsky #horses #ísland
February 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
S03E03 - Reykjavík-Rotterdam (2008)

A more 'Hollywood'-like effort from Iceland, Óskar Jónasson’s movie re-teams Baltasar Kormákur, Ingvar Sigurðsson and Arnaldur Indriðason for a sort-of heist thriller about a former criminal doing ONE LAST JOB!

open.spotify.com/episode/13wc...

#iceland #filmsky
February 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
S03E02 - The Hero’s Journey to the Third Pole 2020 (Þriðji póllinn)

Documentary about the efforts of Anna Tara Edwards and Icelandic musician Högni to put on a concert to raise awareness of mental illness in Nepal.

@andrimagnason.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/0WPY...

#iceland #filmsky
February 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
S03E01 - LAMB 2021 (Dýrið)

A Cannes award-winning supernatural folk-tale co-written by Sjón with director Valdimar Jóhannsson, and starring Noomi Rapace.

This is an atmospheric slow burn horror with WTF moments to stun and scare.

open.spotify.com/episode/4UA5...

#iceland #filmsky #lamb #movie
February 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
S02E06 - And Breathe Normally (Andið eðlilega) 2018

On the Reykjanes Peninsula two women of different backgrounds learn how to help each other.

Ísold Uggadóttir's debut is a beautifully stark look at immigration and the struggle for normalality

open.spotify.com/episode/16pO...

#iceland #filmsky
February 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
S02E05 - A White, White Day (Hvítur, hvítur dagur) 2019

Hlynur Pálmason’s astonishing drama set in the south-east of Iceland follows Ingvar Sigurðsson’s police officer working through his grief while supporting his family.

open.spotify.com/episode/0OBS...

#iceland #filmsky #worldcinema
February 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
S02BONUS - Reykjavík Whale Watching Massacre

Iceland’s very own ‘hicksploitation’ slasher starring Leatherface himself Gunnar Hansen.

Episode feat. Evolution of Horror’s @mikemuncer.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/7uHE...

#iceland #filmsky #horror #worldcinema #horrormovie
February 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
S02BONUS - LAMB & Cop Secret (Leynilögga) 2021

A non-spoiler discussion of two Icelandic movies that played at the 2021 BFI London Film Festival!

A very Icelandic folk horror and a very Icelandic ‘Hollywood’ buddy action movie!

open.spotify.com/episode/0bwD...

#iceland #filmsky #lamb #copsecret
February 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚨New Episode Alert 🚨

Rob and Ellie return to the Westfjords, this time for Thordur Palsson’s chilling and atmospheric 19th century-set psychological horror The Damned!

Starring Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Rory McCann and Siobhan Finneran

open.spotify.com/episode/2poO...

#horror #iceland #worldcinema
January 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Something’s coming…
January 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Watching Black Sands 2 on U&Alibi in the UK, and the appearance of the ever-brilliant Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir has certainly livened/shaken things up!
January 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🚨New Episode Alert 🚨

Rob and Ellie head to the Westfjords to meet a whole host of villagers with stories to tell in Elfar Aðalsteins’ film adaptation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s popular novel ‘Summerlight...And Then Comes The Night’.

With ALL the Icelandic actors!

open.spotify.com/episode/6xNI...
December 20, 2024 at 4:47 PM
S02E04 - Grandma Lo-Fi (Amma lo-fi) 2011

A delightful documentary about 70-year old music-making maestro Sigríður Nielsdóttir!

With quirky animation and great interviews and music from popular Icelandic musicians including Hildur Guðnadóttir.

open.spotify.com/episode/0rPA...

#iceland #filmsky
December 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
S02E03- Noi The Albino (Nói albínói) 2003

Set in a cold and bleak Westfjords, this dark quirky comedy stars Tómas Lemarquis as a teenager bored with school and life in an isolated town. Written, directed and with a great soundtrack by Dagur Kári

open.spotify.com/episode/0AM7...

#iceland #filmsky
December 18, 2024 at 6:29 PM
S02E02- I Remember You (Ég man þig) 2017

Yrsa Sigurðardottir’s Scandi noir ghost story novel is adapted by Óskar Thór Axelsson into an excellent film starring Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as a father looking for answers to his son’s disappearance

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#iceland #filmsky
December 17, 2024 at 5:13 PM
S02E01- Woman At War (Kona fer í stríð) 2018

Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir stars in this magical realist eco-comedy-drama directed by Benedikt Erlingsson.
Halla, a middle-aged choir teacher takes action against the heavy industry of Iceland…

open.spotify.com/episode/4DlZ...

#iceland #filmsky
December 16, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Episode 5 - Under The Tree (Undir trénu) 2017

In the Reykjavík suburbs, tension mounts between two neighbouring families as a garden tree prevents some sunbathing.
A deliciously dark comedy from director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson

open.spotify.com/episode/150p...

#iceland #filmsky
December 14, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Episode 5 - Echo (Bergmál) 2019

One to add to the Christmas film watchlist!

A kaleidoscope of vignettes charting Christmas and New Year in Reykjavík, Rúnar Rúnarsson blurs fiction and reality in this beautiful portrait of the city.

open.spotify.com/episode/7jGT...

#iceland #filmsky #ljósbrot
December 13, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Episode 4 - Jar City (Mýrin) 2006

The first great modern Icelandic noir film, based on Arnaldur Indriðason’s fascinating novel. Starring legend Ingvar Sigurðsson as Detective Erlendur.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur

open.spotify.com/episode/5YR0...

#iceland #crime #noir #worldcinema #filmsky
December 12, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Episode 3 - Let Me Fall (Lof mér áð falla) 2018

The youth drug taking epidemic in contemporary Iceland is explored in this stunning but hard-hitting drama about young love and bad decisions.

Director: Baldvin Z
Starring: Elín Hall

open.spotify.com/episode/6t92...

#iceland #worldcinema #filmsky
December 11, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Ooh you should try the beautiful Icelandic film Echo (Bergmál) from 2019. Fictional and real glimpses of Iceland at Christmas time!

#christmasfilm #iceland
December 11, 2024 at 10:56 AM