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The Reykjavík German Film Festival 2013 opened for the third time on Thursday evening.
The event, held by Bíó Paradís and the Goethe Institut Dänemark, runs until March 24.
Hannah Arendt was this year’s opening film. The film tracks the life of the woman who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
Other films include drama Barbara, which won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival 2012; psychological drama Cracks in the Shell (Die Unsichtbare); This Ain’t California, a documentary about roller boarding; Heavy Girls (Dicke Mädchen), the
story of Sven and his dementia suffering mother and her married male homecare worker; Kill Me (Töte mich), a drama about an escaped convict, and tragicomedy Hotel Lux, set in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Films are in German with English subtitles.
Visit bioparadis.is for trailers and event details.
In other film related news, the documentary Fit Hostel: Refugee Camp Iceland premiered on Wednesday. The film tells the stories of several asylum seekers, housed at the hostel while they wait for their applications for asylum to be processed.
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Four Icelandic contestants will participate in this year’s World Skills International, the world cup for industrial- and vocational subjects. The competition is held every other year.
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This year’s free English-language travel guide Around Iceland has been released, the 38th year in a row. The guide is also published in Icelandic and German and is distributed in 100,000 copies to the country’s most frequented tourist destinations.
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An international group of divers recently traveled to Þingvellir National Park in Southwest Iceland to explore this unique diving destination. A Polish guide, Michail Zinieuricz, who works for the DIVE.is, led the team of North Americans and a French couple.
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Iceland’s northernmost island is no longer one island. In a recent surveillance excursion to the Kolbeinsey, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered that the island is now divided in two.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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