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Grapevine Events: Folk Festival, Tónabíó Opening, Stockfish Film & Industry Festival
In last week’s Friday Event Picks, we spoke too soon. We’re sorry. It’s decidedly not so spring-y here; the only yellow isn’t coming from the sun, but from today’s yellow weather warning. However, regardless of the actual weather, today (March 20) is…
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Stockfish Has Plans For You: Irish Focus, Daring Documentaries, And Seven-Hour Béla Tarr Screening
The 2026 Stockfish Film & Industry festival is just around the corner, running from March 19 to 29. Reykjavík isn’t exactly a global film festival capital — but for over a decade, Stockfish has been steadily building a platform for filmmakers and…
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Grapevine Events: DesignMarch, Stockfish, Belonging? & More
This is the day we exhale after a long issue print run and head into a weekend-long (and far too short) hibernation. [Quite literally— the writer typing this could really use some rest, okay?] Luckily for you, there’s plenty happening in town.…
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Felt Cute, Might Delete Later
Anna Karín Lárusdóttir’s short film Felt Cute challenges the conformity of society’s labels Winning a short film competition is a big deal for an aspiring filmmaker. Doing it twice is a dream that not many will see come true. But director Anna…
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Stockfish 2023: Coming-of-Age Dramas, Sauna Confessions and One Sad Donkey
Crowded screening rooms, air thick with the scent of popcorn and the classic conundrum of wanting to be at two films at the same time. Yep, you are at a film festival. Stockfish is all of these things, but…smaller in scale. The…
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Stockfish Film Festival Kicked Off In Reykjavík
Stockfish Film Festival kicked off in Reykjavík on March 24. The festival will take place at Bíó Paradís, the only art-house cinema in Reykjavík, until April 3. During the festival around 30 films from all over the world will be screened, along…
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Ben Kingsley and the New Icelandic Star of Cinema
We all remember ‘Death and the Maiden,’ the 1994 film starring Ben Kingsley as a suspected war criminal flushed out by one of his victims, played by Sigourney Weaver. Now Kingsley is back as a criminal from another war. But this time,…
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Baby Steps To Freedom: Palestinian Filmmaker Najwa Najjar And The Power Of Cinema
“These are the darkest times for Palestine and I think it may get worse.” Filmmaker Najwa Najjar, rather like her movies, goes straight to the point. She visited Iceland for the Stockfish Film Festival, where her film Eyes Of A Thief was…
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A Very Good Idea And A Little Luck: An Interview With Norwegian Director Bent Hamer
Can Norwegians be funny? This question was first addressed in the 1968 film The Man Who Couldn’t Laugh, which actually was pretty funny. Then, three decades of social-realist darkness followed, until 2001’s wonderful Elling. Elling’s star Per Christian Ellefsen was last seen…
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Stockfish European Film Festival Is Starting
From February 19-March 1 The Stockfish European Film Festival will be held for the first time. It is the reincarnation of the original Reykjavík Film Festival that was held from 1978-2001 and the succeeding European Film Festival in Reykjavík that has run over…