Faroe Islands Movies

Presents a day in the life of a few inhabitants of Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands: A father and his daughter are having breakfast when the...

A music video for Linda Catlin Smith’s contemporary piece, Wanderer. Performed by the Thin Edge New Music Collective in Toronto and filmed on...

Two friends, Rannvá and Barba, return to Faroe Islands after seven years abroad. The girls arouse both curiosity and outrage with their...

The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about...

Ester (16) lives a safe but mundane life, in a small town on an island together with her religious and conservative parents. One day, when...

Waste youth - but not with the wrong cigarette brand. Even on the Faroes, being young is an issue of style and distiction. And the difference...

A nurse is taking care of an elderly dying woman on a small island near the Torshavn. An old repressed memory of the island resurfaces to haunt the...

Two lost souls with incongruent world views meet again and again under strange circumstances and it will gradually become clear that they are...

An elderly man one day realises that he will leave his wife for the much younger Maria. His wife reacts stoically. She is neither angry nor unhappy...

The story of a Grandmother who swims every day in the sea whatever the weather.

Elinborg accidentally runs into her friend Marita at the supermarket. The conversation is civil yet slightly awkward, as Elinborg has forgotten...

The young Julia – the priest's daughter – falls in love with the beautiful Barbara, who just moved to the island. A story about forbidden...

Rannvá is abandoned by her husband, and is now sitting alone in her appartment. While she is trying to pass time, the past comes back to hunt...

Seals were believed to be former human beings who voluntarily sought death in the ocean. Once a year, on the Thirteenth night, they were allowed to...

Ámæli is about the old tradition of pilot whale hunting on Faroe Island. Trough one summer we follow three people, a whale hunter,...

STAY is a short film depicting two people going their separate ways. A story about connecting while departing. About loneliness in togetherness. A...

Maria hesitates when her best friend Birita offers her some pills, but – what the hell? Her mother’s away and they are both desperate to...

A single mother (Óluva Johannessen) is frustrated to see her son (Sámal H.Hansen) lonely and unhappy, so she decides to buy him a new...

A creative portrait of Faroese artist Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir and the mountainous landscapes that inspire her. Warm, colourful and imaginative,...