List of Icelandic films
1990s
Table:
Year

Original title

English title

Director

1990*
The Juniper Tree
The Juniper Tree
Nietzchka Keene

1990
Pappírspési
Pappírspési
Ari Kristinsson (is)

1990
Ryð
Ryð
Lárus Ýmir Óskarsson

1991
Börn náttúrunnar
Children of Nature
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

1991*
Hvíti víkingurinn
The White Viking
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson

1992
Ingaló
Ingaló
Ásdís Thoroddsen

1992
Karlakórinn Hekla
The Men's Choir
Guðný Halldórsdóttir

1992
Sódóma Reykjavík
Remote Control
Óskar Jónasson

1992
Svo á jörðu sem á himni
As in Heaven
Kristín Jóhannesdóttir

1992
Veggfóður
Wallpaper
Júlíus Kemp

1992
Ævintýri á Norðurslóðum
Ævintýri á Norðurslóðum
Marius Olsen
Katrin Ottarsdóttir
Kristín Pálsdóttir

1993
Hin helgu vé
The Sacred Mound
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson

1993
Stuttur Frakki
Behind Schedule
Gísli Snær Erlingsson

1994
Bíódagar
Movie Days
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

1994
Skýjahöllin
Sky Palace
Þorsteinn Jónsson (is)

1995
Cold Fever
Cold Fever
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

1995
Agnes
Agnes
Egill Eðvarðsson

1995
Ein stór fjölskylda
One Family
Jóhann Sigmarsson

1995
Einkalíf
Einkalíf
Þráinn Bertelsson

1995
Nei er ekkert svar
No Is No Answer
Jón Tryggvason

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The Juniper Tree is a 1990 Icelandic black-and-white medieval fantasy drama film directed and written by Nietzchka Keene . Based on the fairy tale The Juniper Tree collected by the Brothers Grimm , it stars a small cast of five actors : Björk , Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir , Guðrún Gísladóttir , Valdimar Örn Flygenring and Geirlaug Sunna Þormar . The film was selected to compete for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival .
Professor Nietzchka Keene ( June 26 , 1952 - October 20 , 2004 ) was an American film director and writer best known for The Juniper Tree , a feature film shot in Iceland , and starring the Icelandic singer Björk in her first film role . She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the spring of 2004 and died , aged 52 , on October 20 , 2004 . She taught film making and editing in the University of Wisconsin-Madison until her death . She was born in 1952 and raised near Boston , Massachusetts . She received her BA in 1975 in Germanic linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , and her Master of Fine Arts in film production from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1979 . While at UCLA she served as a research assistant in Old Icelandic language and linguistics under Dr. Jesse Byock . Keene worked in various capacities in the film industry in Los Angeles while attending graduate school , including positions as a recordist for a sound studio , a dialogue editor in a post-production house , a projectionist , and a re-recording mixer at UCLA . She produced three short films as a graduate student - Friends ( 1977 ) , Still ( 1978 ) and Hinterland ( 1983 ) . In 1986 after returning from her Fulbright year she wrote the script for The Juniper Tree and returned to shoot the film in 1987 on location in Iceland . It was the first film to star the well-known singer and actress Björk , in the role of a young child in a story based on a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm . She won a Verna Fields Memorial Scholarship from UCLA in 1987 for editing The Juniper Tree , completing it in 1989 . It has been screened in more than 23 festivals and invitational events around the world , including the Sundance Film Festival , the Harvard Film Archive , and the Art Institute of Chicago .
The year 1990 in film involved many significant events as shown below . Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990 .
The Adventures of Paper Peter ( Icelandic : Ævintýri Pappírs Pésa ) is a 1990 Icelandic drama film directed by Ari Kristinsson . The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
The year 1991 in film involved some significant events .
Children of Nature ( Icelandic : Börn náttúrunnar ) is a 1991 Icelandic film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson . It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 64th Academy Awards , the only Icelandic film to have ever been nominated .
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson ( born 12 May 1954 ; pronounced [ ˈfrɪðrɪk ˈθouːr ˈfrɪðrɪxsɔn ] ) , sometimes credited as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson , is an Icelandic film director and producer .
The White Viking ( alternative title Embla , Icelandic : Hvíti víkingurinn , Norwegian : Den hvite viking ) is a 1991 film set in Norway and Iceland during the reign of Olaf I of Norway . The film loosely follows actual events . Embla is the director 's cut of the White Viking and released on DVD in 2007 . It was premiered at the Reykjavik International Film Festival on October 6 , 2007 . It is the directors cut of the original film as the director imagined it . Gunnlaugsson chose to call the film Embla so that it is not confused with the White Viking , compiled by the producers of the film in 1992 . Embla is the third film of the legendary Raven Trilogy ( also known as the Viking Trilogy ) that consists of three 'Viking ' films :
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson ( born 17 June 1948 ) is an Icelandic film director . He is the brother of mathematician Þorvaldur Gunnlaugsson and the lawyer Snædís Gunnlaugsdóttir and the actress Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir . He is mostly known for his series of Viking films , sometimes called Cod Westerns . He was married to Edda Kristjánsdóttir and they have four children : Kristján born 1968 who is a poet and playwright , Tinna who is an actress , Sól who is an art designer and Örk who is an artist and was born in 1993 . He won the award for Best Director at the 20th Guldbagge Awards for When the Raven Flies .
The year 1992 in film involved many significant film releases .
The following is a list of notable films produced in Iceland by Icelanders . Star marked films are films in coproduction with Iceland . Although Arne Mattsson is Swedish , his film is included because it is based on a book by the Icelandic Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness .
Ásdís Thoroddsen ( born February 26 , 1959 ) is an Icelandic director , producer , screenwriter , and actress .
Guðný Halldórsdóttir ( born 23 January 1954 ) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter . She has directed eight films since 1984 . Her 2007 film The Quiet Storm was entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival . Her father was writer and 1955 Nobel prize winner Halldór Laxness , while her mother was writer and textile designer Auður Laxness .
Remote Control ( Icelandic : Sódóma Reykjavík ( pronunciation ( help·info ) ) is a 1992 Icelandic film directed by Óskar Jónasson . The plot is a farce , revolving around the young car mechanic Axel and his adventure in the Reykjavík underworld which starts when his mother insists that he must recover the remote control to her TV . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival . The film stars Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson as Axel , and features the Icelandic metal band HAM .
Óskar Jónasson ( born 30 June 1963 ) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter . His film Remote Control was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival . His most recent film Reykjavík-Rotterdam won four Edda Awards including Director of the Year and Best Screenplay .
As in Heaven ( Icelandic : Svo á jörðu sem á himni ) is a 1992 Icelandic drama film directed by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir . It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival . The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
Júlíus Kemp ( born December 2 , 1967 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic film director .
Marius Olsen is a Greenlandic politician and member of the Siumut party . He has served as a member of the municipal council and Deputy Mayor for the former Sisimiut Municipality .
Katrin Ottarsdóttir ( born 1957 ) is a Faroese movie director and poet .
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films , including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park , The Fugitive and The Firm . ( For more about films in foreign languages , check sources in those languages . ) Walt Disney Studios celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1993 .
The Sacred Mound ( Icelandic : Hin helgu vé ) is a 1993 Icelandic drama film directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson . The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee .
This is a list of films released in 1994 . The top worldwide grosser was The Lion King , becoming the highest-grossing Walt Disney Feature Animation film of all-time , although it was slightly overtaken at the North American domestic box office by Forrest Gump , which won the Academy Award for Best Picture . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated its 70th Anniversary in 1994 .
This is a list of films released in 1995 . The highly anticipated sequel Die Hard with a Vengeance was the year 's biggest box-office hit , and Braveheart won the Academy Award for Best Picture .
Cold Fever ( Icelandic : Á köldum klaka ) is a 1995 Icelandic film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson . It is a road movie set in Iceland and was the first of Friðrik 's films to be made in the English language . The movie depicts the travels of a Japanese man across Iceland . It was jokingly promoted as the best Icelandic-Japanese road movie of 1995 .
Þráinn Bertelsson ( born 30 November 1944 ) is an Icelandic film director , writer , politician , journalist and newspaper editor . He moved into politics in the wake of the financial crisis in 2008 , and was elected a member of the Althing in 2009 , initially for the Citizens ' Movement . He later left the party to become an independent MP , before joining the Left-Green Movement , which he currently represents .