Best Icelandic animation movies

Six people. Living in one building but following different paths. Each gets through the day in their own way – and with their own voice.

‘On The Surface’ is a 4mn animation about a young Black woman who goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on her experience of having a baby in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy and postnatal depression. Soon her swimming eases. Being in the wild and facing her fears is helping her heal.

Hér eru komnar fimm skemmtilegar sögur um póstinn Pál og vini hans í Grænadal. Pósturinn Páll er vel þekktur fyrir hjálpsemi sína ásamt því að vera alltaf í góðu skapi. Ekki skemmir fyrir að Kötturinn Njáll er alltaf með í för og heldur uppi fjörinu. Á disknum eru fimm skemmtilegir þættir og þeir heita: Vel unnið verk Græna kanínan Fiðrildaveiðar Fljúgandi diskar Lestarferðin erfiða

Sugarcube is a small story about growing up and facing the complications of adulthood with its social traditions, complex communications, and love. Sugarcube is Sara Gunnarsdóttir's debut film.

Símon's little brother, Steinar keeps wrecking the house.

There once was a girl named Anna Young. One day, her family is waiting for their perfect daughter to arrive at the breakfast table and kiss them good morning as always. But this morning Anna wakes up with a horrible illness. She looks like a sad version of Marilyn Manson and is terribly moody. Not realizing what is “wrong” with their daughter, Anna’s parents decide to take her to Dr. Artmanns’ clinic for kids with behavioural problems. In his analysis of Anna, Dr. Artmann uses a huge labyrinth where Anna is exposed to various tasks. The only way out of the maze for Anna is to complete her tasks in the right manners. But the right way is not necessarily what the parents think to be the right one.

A short fast paced cut-out animation. It tells the story of Diane and Bob, the last two surviving Martians on Mars.

An experimental-documentary of the spirituality in Iceland, and the ultimate freedom it entails, as seen through the eyes of a foreigner. The filmmaker narrates his in-camera edited film. The sound design was recorded live, all in one take.

A short computer animated, action packed valiant adventure film from the middle ages about a princess picking flowers. It started its life with knights in armor, swords and shields, horses and wild heartbreaking romances, but turned out as something completely different.

Twenty minutes of inventive puppet animation, it was finished in January 1996. The story, taken from an Icelandic saga, tells of the adventures in Norway of Hreidar, a "big, ugly and slowwitted" Icelander. Hreidar wants to meet King Magnus, whom he impresses with his enormous strength and candid behavior; then he has a fight with a soldier of another king, Harald, and kills him.

Hér eru komnar fimm skemmtilegar sögur um póstinn Pál og vini hans í Grænadal. Pósturinn Páll er þekktur fyrir hjálpsemi sína ásamt því að vera alltaf í góðu skapi. Ekki skemmir fyrir að Kötturinn Njáll er alltaf með í för og heldur uppi fjörinu.

Hér eru komnar fimm skemmtilegar sögur um póstinn Pál og vini hans í Grænadal. Pósturinn Páll er vel þekktur fyrir hjálpsemi sína ásamt því að vera alltaf í góðu skapi. Ekki skemmir fyrir að Kötturinn Njáll er alltaf með í för og heldur uppi fjörinu. Á disknum eru fimm skemmtilegir þættir og þeir heita: Sólarströnd Vinnuskipti Doppa hverfur Töframaðurinn Palli Risaeðluveiðin mikla

Hér eru komnar fimm skemmtilegar sögur um póstinn Pál og vini hans í Grænadal. Pósturinn Páll er vel þekktur fyrir hjálpsemi sína ásamt því að vera alltaf í góðu skapi. Ekki skemmir fyrir að Kötturinn Njáll er alltaf með í för og heldur uppi fjörinu.

Based on a poem from the Icelandic sagas, this film tells of how Thrymur, the king of trolls, stole the hammer of Thor and how Thor got it back.

Cut-out animation. The story of Dubbi the pidgeon in three episodes: Dubbi; Dubbi the Pidgeon; Dubbi grows up. The film is an adaptation of three short children's books (same titles) and contains exactly the same text. Conceived as pedagogic instruments for children between the age of 6-8 who are learning to read.

Clay animation. The story of an industrial worker whose inflated ego produces a monster.

3 short films in a series based on ideas from an exhibition of 100 drawings in Gallery Langbrók in Reykjavík, 1983. The Concert: A devil is playing the piano. The Bathtub: Jesus is taking a bath. The Artist: An artist is painting out in the open and gets a nasty surprise.

At the change of seasons, Planty comes to life. He is attacked by a bumble bee.