Compass Films

20/09/2025

Our Nordic Film Council Prize nominated Ljósbrot/When the Light Breaks will screen again this evening at Bió Paradís, with a Q&A with the wonderful cast Elín Hall, Mikael Kaaber and Katla Njálsdóttir 🤩
All of the 7 nominated Nordic Film Council Prize films are now touring across Iceland, Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
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Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands

Íslenska kvikmyndin Ljósbrot er tilnefnd til kvikmyndaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs 🇮🇸🏆

Ljósbrot gerist á fallegum vordegi þegar líf Unu snýst á hliðina á svipstundu. Upphefst þá rússibanaferð tilfinninga þar sem mörkin milli hláturs og gráturs, fegurðar og sorgar, verða stundum óskýr. Hinn fyrsti missir og ferðalagið sem því fylgir.

Í tilefni af Norrænni kvikmyndaveislu verður Q&A með Elínu Hall, Kötlu Njálsdóttur og Mikael Kaaber að lokinni sýningu 🫶

Ljósbrot með Q&A er sýnd laugardagskvöldið 20. september kl.19:00 – athugið aðeins þessi eina sýning 🍿

Miðasala og stikla á bioaparadis.is 🎬

18/08/2025

Super proud of our whole team for the Nordic Film Council Prize Nomination today - Ljósbrot/When the Light Breaks!
Thank you to the jury for this wonderful nomination...
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands
Audiovisual Fund
Film Fund
Eurimages
Creative Europe MEDIA
The Party Film Sales

Seven nominees for Nordic Council Film Prize include ‘When the Light Breaks,’ ‘Dreams’ and first Faroe Islands contender ‘The Last Paradise on Earth'

28/06/2025

Shooting just wrapped on our coproduction ‘Brave at Heart’ directed by Amanda Kernell.
Produced by Nordisk Film, Co-Produced by Forest People (Norway), Compass Films (Iceland), Invictus (Bulgaria) and Nordisk Film Production Denmark.

https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/480614

Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands

26/06/2025 - The Nordic-Bulgarian feature centres on a 20-year-old woman who inherits her father’s reindeer herd and strives to uphold the family tradition

16/06/2025

Fantastic week at Festival D'animation D'annecy last week. Ormhildur the Brave will be out in the world early next year, with thanks to our finders and broadcasters 🤩
Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
The Five Nordics
RÚV
Svenska Yle
NRK
DRTV
SVT
Creative Europe
NDR
KIKA
Created by Mjallhvit
Produced by Compass Films
Co-Produced by and

EXCLUSIVE: NDR, RÚV, DR, YLE, SVT and NRK are all backing this 26 x 22-minute series that tells a fantasy story with environmental themes.

14/06/2025

Amazing news from Huesca International Film Festival today, O directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson has received the 1st Award · DANZANTE INTERNACIONAL in the 53rd edition of the Huesca International Film Festival (2025), and automatically qualified for entry in the Short Film category of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Hollywood Awards for the corresponding season!
Thank you to the whole festival team and to everyone who was a part of our film family on O 🥰🤩
The Party Film Sales
sic film
Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands
SVT
Film i Väst
The Five Nordics
Film Institute

FIRST PRIZE | IBEROAMERICAN DANZANTE AWARD, of €5000 (five thousand euros) and a trophy goes to the short film SOLO KIM (Spain) by JAVIER PRIETO DE PAULA and DIEGO HERRERO. For approaching a social story of change and acceptance in a complex way, through the portrait of a deep and compelling main ...

31/05/2025

When the Light Breaks by Rúnar Rúnarsson now in cinemas across the UK, and a wonderful ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review from Film Review Daily…

In his Icelandic masterpiece grappling with a day in the life of young adults, Rünar Rünarsson showcases a leading actress with star quality.

03/05/2025

Congratulations Ingvar E. Sigurðsson (Carry Cash) Best Actor at Brussels Short Film Festival last night!

Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands
sic film

RÚV.is

17/04/2025

Tonight on RÚV starting with our beautiful documentary Fuglalíf by Heimir Freyr Hlöðversson followed by the first episode of four from Kuldi by Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen 📺🤩

Sjónvarp

16/04/2025

Our Icelandic Film & Television Academy Winning Film of the Year Ljósbrot/When the Light Breaks and Short Film of the Year 'O' both directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson are now back in the cinema again, screening until 23rd April at Bíó Paradís

Ljósbrot gerist á fallegum vordegi þegar líf Unu snýst á hliðina á svipstundu. Upphefst þá rússibanaferð tilfinninga þar sem mörkin milli hláturs og gráturs, fegurðar og sorgar, verða stundum óskýr.

15/04/2025

'KULDI' will be released as a 4-part series on RÚV this Easter!
Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Um páskana verður kvikmyndin Kuldi sýnd á RÚV í lengri útgáfu, fjögurra þátta seríu. Leikstjórinn segist hafa vitað frá upphafi að þau væru með mjög mikið efni í höndunum og fann huggun í því að vita að einn daginn fengi það að njóta sín.

11/03/2025

World premiere at SXSW last night for our haunting co-production THE HOME. Huge congratulations to producer Siri Hjorton Wagner at sic film, director Mattias J.Skogland, our Icelandic creatives Tóti Guðnason, Gudbjorg Huldis Kristinsdottir, Harpa Finnsdóttir, and the whole team! First fantastic review just in, thanks to Variety
Icelandic Film Centre - Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands
LevelK

Mattias J. Skoglund’s second feature ekes chills from the low-key, matter-of-fact treatment in its story of an elderly mother whose near-death experience provides entree to a malevolent spirit.

25/02/2025

Wow!! 12 Nominations for the Icelandic Academy Awards with Ljósbrot/When the Light Breaks and Best Short Film of the Year Nomination for 'O' too!
Congratulations to the whole team for both films and the nominees...
sic film
Films
Revolver Amsterdam
Nordisk Film & TV Fond
Eurimages
Creative Europe
Jour2Fête
The Party Film Sales