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The German film festival “Í skugga stríðs” (“In the Shadow of War”) opened in Reykjavík City Library in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut on Friday and will run through May 13.
The films, which will be screened on the 5th floor in the library’s main building on Tryggvagata, provide a good insight into German cinema in post World War II years, both in East and West Germany, the library’s website states.
The films include Die Mörder sind unter uns, Abschied von Gestern (Anita G.) and Spur der Steine. Click here to read more about the films and program.
On Sunday at 8 pm the Reykjavík Shorts & Docs Festival will open in Bíó Paradís on Hverfisgata with the documentary Town of Runners by Jerry Rothwell, featuring three talented long-distance runners in Bekoji in southern Ethiopia, and the Icelandic short Krass by Tómas H. Jóhannesson about two brothers who operate a car wash and have to deal with a dodgy client with a fancy car.
The opening screenings will be preceded by a reception hosted by UN Women and W.O.M.E.N. at 7:30 pm, an association of women of foreign origin in Iceland. Admission to the event is free.
In other film festival news, the sixth annual Icelandic documentary festival Skjaldborg will take place in Patreksfjörður, the southern West Fjords, May 25-27.
Click here to read more about the Reykjavík Shorts & Docs Festival, which will run through May 9, and go to shortsdocsfest.com to learn more about its program.
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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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International artists of the likes of rappers Tinie Tempah (U.K.) and Iggy Azalea (AUS), The Temper Trap (AUS), hip hop groups Outlandish (DK) and Far East Movement (U.S.) will take the stage this week at the Keflavík Music Festival.
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