KEY MOVIES

CHILDREN OF NATURE

1991

An ageing farmer flees a Reykjavík retirement home in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson’s poignant Oscar-nominated drama, highlighting social and emotional tensions between past and present.

REMOTE CONTROL

1992

While trying to retrieve his mum’s lost TV remote, mechanic Axel gets caught up in a feud between a liquor smuggler and a wannabe mob boss in this anarchic, music-filled, generation-defining comedy.

ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE

2000

Ingvar Sigurðsson’s Páll enters a prolonged downward spiral after being dumped by his teenage love. It made a star of Ingvar, and the score by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Sigur Rós soars.

RAMS

2015

Long-feuding farmer brothers unite when a fatal disease hits their valley’s sheep. Capturing rural isolation, it won the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes; Sam Neill headlined last year’s remake.