Writing

Jón Atli Jónasson

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Magician poster
NR

The Magician is a strong and personal story, about how one‘s imagination can help make unbearable situation bearable.

The Magician

2005

The Deep poster
6.3

Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.

The Deep

2012

Storm Alerts poster
NR

Is a world obsessed with medical diagnostics and pharmaceutical prescription ready for the vivid testimony of Marteinn Helgi Sigurðsson, who defies the label of ‘bipolar disorder’ to give us a glimpse into his shaman-like wisdom? This inventive docu-drama takes us right inside complex mental experiences.

Storm Alerts

2025

Eleven Men Out poster
5.3

The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism

Eleven Men Out

2005

Thicker Than Water poster
5.6

Pétur is an optometrist happily married to Ásta. They are expecting a child but already have a 10 year old boy named Örn. On coincidense Pétur finds out that he is not Örn's biological father.

Thicker Than Water

2006

Ferox poster
3.9

Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.

Ferox

2013

Frost poster
3.9

A young couple, physiologist Agla and filmmaker Gunnar, wake up at a glacier drilling camp only to find the camp mysteriously abandoned and their co-workers gone. When searching for the lost team they realize they’re up against an unknown deadly force.

Frost

2012

East poster
3.0

A film inspired by real events in the Icelandic underworld. A young man has a one night stand with the former girlfriend of a violent criminal and is kidnapped by said criminal and his gang in an effort to blackmail him. When that doesn't work they decide to bring him to the countryside to the home of an old friend. There they proceed to torture the poor man...

East

2015

East poster
3.0

A film inspired by real events in the Icelandic underworld. A young man has a one night stand with the former girlfriend of a violent criminal and is kidnapped by said criminal and his gang in an effort to blackmail him. When that doesn't work they decide to bring him to the countryside to the home of an old friend. There they proceed to torture the poor man...

East

2015

Eldborg - Sönn íslensk útihátíð poster
NR

A documentary about the Eldborg music festival

Eldborg - Sönn íslensk útihátíð

2002