A worn-down cop works to piece together the recent murder of a little girl to a similar case from over 30 years ago.
Financial concerns tempt a security guard to return to his smuggling ways.
From the director of Everest, Baltasar Kormákur, comes THE OATH, a dark, shadowy and riveting Icelandic thriller in which a respected doctor, played by Kormákur himself, sets off on a mission to pull his daughter away from the world of drugs and petty crime, only to discover that danger can be found in unexpected places. With sweeping Icelandic vistas providing the backdrop to unnerving tension, this is an assured suspense drama bound to have you on the edge of your seat.
A story of jealousy, murder and betrayal, I Against I is set over 12 hours, using different timelines to reveal a dark, edge of your seat thriller that takes numerous twists and turns en-route to an explosive finale. Set in a nocturnal underworld, two men are un-wittingly set up to kill each other by a third as part of a sinister trap. They have to learn to trust each other in order to stay alive but the clock is ticking and their pursuer is always one step ahead of them.
Icelandic filmmaker Hillmar Oddsson directs this psychological drama based on the 1985 novel by Vigds Grmsdttir. Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson stars as Grimur, a lonely 40-something with a tragic past, who finds himself emotionally crippled in the face of problems in his current relationship with art teacher, Linda (Ruth Olafsdottir). Haunted by a childhood tragedy that he thinks he could have prevented, Grimur has suffered from terrifying nightmares and premonitions throughout his adult life. In his younger years, a mystical second sight tormented him with visions of the future, but now he must learn to let go of the past and accept the good things that life has to offer.
Hell bent on his mission and determined to protect his family, he gets caught up in a world of warring crime syndicates, drugs, corrupt police and prostitution that quickly spirals out of control with devastating consequences. Starring Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Tomorrow Never Dies), City State is a violent and thrilling tale of a city brought to its knees by the underworld.
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