Double win for Iceland at Northern Wave Film Festival
The eighth Northern Wave Film Festival saw the Icelandic film You and I (Þú og ég) by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir win the award for best Icelandic short...
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Iceland officially welcomes displaced Cuban writer
Cuban writer and asylum seeker Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo has been ensured a place to live and financial security by the city of Reykjavík. In 1994, Lazo...
Icelanders reschedule wedding dates for Euro 2016
Weddings in Iceland are being pushed back this summer so as not to clash with Euro 2016. Iceland qualified for their first major international footbal...
Fridriksson to produce The Black Cliffs movie
Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson is set to produce the movie adaptation of the Gunnar Gunnarsson novel “The Black Cliffs”. Based on the tr...
Everest charity premiere in Reykjavik sold out
66°North, Myndform, Rvk. Studios and Universal Pictures hosted a charity event in conjunction with the Icelandic movie premiere of Everest last Wednes...
Reykjavik to preserve Viking Age longhouse
The Reykjavik City and Environmental and Planning Commission wants to preserve the archaeological remains that were discovered by Laekjargata street a...
Icelandic Pavilion scraps legal appeal to have ‘The Mosque’ reopened
The Icelandic Art Center (IAC) has abandoned its legal appeal to have Christopher Buchel’s The Mosque reopened after Venetian authorities closed it do...
Icelandic-French filmmaker Solveig Anspach passes away
Icelandic-French movie director Solveig Anspach has died at the age of 54 after losing her battle with breast cancer. Anspach, who broke onto the scen...