Gunnar Hansson

An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

Áramótaskaup: 2016 is an annual Icelandic TV movie satirizing the events of the past year.

When Bússi, Iceland's toughest cop, is forced to work with a new partner to solve a series of bank robberies, the pressure to close the case as soon as possible proves too much for him.

The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. Einar is a stockbroker who is very successful at work but not in his personal life. For the last couple of months Einar has been living at a hotel waiting for his wife to realize the terrible mistake she made by throwing him out. Katrin Rose returns from Sweden where she has lived for eight years. In Iceland Katrin has an eleven-year-old son, brought up by his grandmother and now Katrin wants him back. Katrin gets a job as a dentist's assistant intending to make a fresh start but her troubled past catches up with her.

Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.

Dís, 23, is still to decide what to do with her life. Obsessed by the thought of being "abnormally normal", a mere photocopy of long lost original, she wanders from one odd job to another and tries out various cources at the University. A guiding light comes her way from an unexpected direction.

Two childhood friends decide to drive around Iceland backward to raise money for charity. Soon after they set out, however, they discover that perhaps this wasn't the best idea. Nothing goes as planned - in fact, almost everything goes wrong.

A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.

After surviving a brutal assault, a young lawyer moves into a historic Reykjavik flat—only to sense she’s not alone. As eerie events and the flat’s violent past close in on her, she must confront her deepest fears before her mind—or something darker—destroys her.

The third and final feature based on the acclaimed Danish TV series finds Frank turning 50 so Casper invites him to Iceland on a boys' trip. Naturally, the trip does not go quite as planned.

Íþróttaálfurinn has managed to change the villagers' negative attitude towards sports, healthy food and all diligence. But when he leaves and the villagers have to manage on their own, they turn out to be very unstable and easily influenced by the criminal Glanni Glæpur, who turns up disguised as a very rich man. In fact, he has stolen the president's car and intends to corrupt the villagers so that he can sell them un-wholesome powder-food and become mayor of the town.

Crime writer Solveig Karlsdottir is pretty successful - although that's not particularly easy in Iceland. After all, with only two murders a year in the entire country, there aren't many sources of inspiration, but she makes up for this with a lot of imagination and her special feeling for things that aren't quite right. And this feeling kicks in strongly when she travels from Reykjavik to her old home village to look after her mother Margret, who is suffering from dementia. When an old friend from her youth is found dead at the harbor, she doesn't believe the official conclusion that it was an accident.

Every year, on a large island just outside of Iceland, there is a huge football tournament for kids. Ten-year-old Jón and his team go to compete, but he will have to grow up faster than expected, both on and off the pitch.

Claudia travels to Iceland for her son Patrick's dream wedding. She has a big surprise in store: she is the mysterious "new girl" of his best friend Alex, who has even proposed to her and wants to turn the ceremony into a double wedding. However, the secret lovers are waiting for the right time to tell the unsuspecting Patrick. Both fear that he will be less than thrilled. Shortly after arriving in Reykjavik, Patrick receives a phone call that throws everything out of kilter for him: his fiancée Anna cancels at the last minute! He also receives bad news from the start-up he set up with Alex in Hamburg. Patrick would love to fly back immediately, but a volcanic eruption puts a spanner in the works. Instead of a celebration and honeymoon, he has to pass the time with Alex, Claudia and his assistant Nina. Nina also has a secret agenda: to conquer Patrick.

Robert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has an accident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within. Robert acts out and suffers the consequences.

Annual TV movie that makes fun of the past year.

Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.

A group of Icelanders attend a course to search for their inner self.

In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young Icelandic boy has to fight for his friends existence against the ignorant villagers, who want him imprisoned or even killed

Failed TV-Personality Frimann Gunnarsson tries to revive his career and travels around Scandinavia to investigates Nordic sense of humour. He meets up with some of the best known comedians in Scandinavia, some might even call it the Champions League of Nordic comedy (Frimann himself for instance). Although he has high hopes to educate his viewers on the secrets about quality-humour, Frimann Gunnarsson fails miserably when each episode goes way off track.