IceDocs 2020-featured

The second edition of Iceland’s Documentary Festival, IceDocs, is set to kick off this week, 15 – 19 July 2020.

The well-received festival that launched last year takes place in Akranes (45km North of Reykjavík) and will be made up of documentaries, a children’s program, music selections, quizzes, and more (hikes, Lighthouse-based concerts, yoga sessions, etc.), set against the natural beauty of the one of a kind countryside. With Iceland’s tackling of the Coronavirus, one of the world’s most efficient, IceDocs 2020 will be one of the more intimate festival events of the year. Still, precautions are in place and the festival will also feature an online selection.

The films featured at IceDocs 2020 include some of the best that the documentary world has to offer this year and last and include:

  • Acasa, My Home (dir. Radu Ciorniciuc )
  • All Cats Are Grey in the Dark (dir. Lasse Linder)
  • Always Amber (dir. Hannah Reinikainen, Lia Kim Hietala)
  • Aswang (dir. Alyx Ayn Arumpac)
  • Banksy: Most wanted (dir. Aurélia Rouvier, Seamus Haley)
  • Buddah in Africa (dir. Nicole Schafer)
  • Carne (dir. Camila Kater)
  • Collective (dir. Alexander Nanau)
  • Deep Waters (dir. Alice Heit)
  • Forman vs. Forman (dir. Helena Třeštíková, Jakub Hejna)
  • Furtive (dir. Pedro García Campos & Pol González Novell)
  • Lessons of Love (dir. Małgorzata Goliszewska, Katarzyna Mateja)
  • Mars, Oman (dir. Vanessa del Campo)
  • Men’s Room (dir. Petter Sommer, Jo Vemund Svendsen)
  • Marshawn Lynch: a History (dir. David Shields)
  • Misericordia (dir. Xavier Marrades)
  • Once the Dust Settled (dir. John Apple)
  • Scheme Birds (dir. Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin)
  • The Self Portrait (dir. Katja Hogset, Margreth Olin, Espen Wallin)
  • Shānzhài Screens (dir. Paul Heintz)
  • Time and Tide (dir. Marleen van der Werf)
  • A Year Full of Drama (dir. Marta Pulk)

All screenings and most events are free of charge.