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After an amazing week, where everyone pitched in, we have now graduated 19 filmmakers from our departments. Here you can enjoy photos taking during the week and we wish our graduates all the best for a bright future.

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It is always a pleasure to get to follow our former students take on varied challenges and one of them in production now is "Eftirleikir", written, produced and directed by Olafur Einar Olafarson graduated from Screen writing and Directing and prize winner of "Bjarkinn" for the best graduation film, and acted in and produced by Andri Freyr Sigurpalsson graduated from Acting.

There was excitement in the air and the anticipation clear among the students of The Icelandic Film School when they turned up at the school this past Thursday morning the 19th of August to begin the fall semester of 2021.

The film "Cop Secret" (Leyniloggan) was premiered at the Lucarno film festival recently and was lauded by critics. The Film School has two graduated students in the film team and they make us proud.

The Icelandic Film School has an ambition and commitment to be an active part of the International film school network and strives to engage in relevant industry conversation. It is both valuable and important for IFS to have been a part of the CILECT community for years.

Is the premiere film of the Nordic Days at the Lübeck Film Festival

And it is safe to say that it was a great success and a wicked time was had by all

The Annual General Meeting of the Icelandic Film School was held in late summer and a new board of the school was elected.

Kinema, the students association, has voted in a new council

Thelma Lind will be graduating from Acting on December 18th with her film "See you in the next one"

Kristjan Petur will be graduating from Directing and Producing on the 18th of December with his film "Rakel : A story about misery"

Agust Thor will be graduating from Acting on December 18th with his film "Everything is over"

Vigfus Olafsson will be graduating from Directing and Producing on December 18th with his film "Crossroads"

Erna Soffía Einarsdóttir will graduate from Directing and Production on December 18th with her film "The next chapter" that she made with Hannes Einar Einarsson from Creative Technology.

Hjordis Rosa Ernisdottir will be graduating from Directing and Producing on the 18th of December with her film "The Speech"