Þorsteinn Bachmann

Reykjavik. After a tragedy, Writer Móri drinks himself into oblivion on a twenty-year binge. Eik, a young single mom moonlights as a prostitute to make ends meet. Young father and good husband, Sölvi, is recruited into the snake pit of the Icelandic international banking. Soon fate will make them meet.

An Icelandic single mom struggling with poverty and a Guinea-Bissauan asylum seeker facing deportation find their lives intertwined in unexpected ways.

The death of her husband lights a fire under a dairy farmer to take down the corrupt local cooperative that killed him and forced her into bankruptcy.

This portrait, drawing on true stories, follows Stella and Magnea through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.

From the director of Everest, Baltasar Kormákur, comes The Oath, a dark, shadowy and riveting Icelandic thriller in which a respected doctor, played by Kormákur himself, sets off on a mission to pull his daughter away from the world of drugs and petty crime, only to discover that danger can be found in unexpected places. With sweeping Icelandic vistas providing the backdrop to unnerving tension, this is an assured suspense drama bound to have you on the edge of your seat.