For the first time, approximately 100 motion pictures from 104 years of Icelandic cinematographic history are compiled in one exhibition. The collection starts back in 1906 with early documentaries by Gunnar Sommerfeldt and describes along the upcoming film business the development of the Icelandic film landscape. The collection contains works by Loftur Gudmundsson and Óskar Gíslason, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, Dagur Kári and Ragnar Bragason, just to mention a few, and closes with "The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela" by Olaf de Fleur which won the Teddy prize in the Berlin film festival this year.

The films are presented at four stations distinguished into feature film, filmlet, documentary film und film adaptations of literature which display 20 motion pictures each in their full length. The show is framed by a numerous examples of filmstils on a kind of strip and film scenes presented on 10 flat screens in chronological order. In Berlin the exhibition is supplemented by the retrospective EYESLAND which introduces an assortment of Icelandic movie highlights.

For the end of this year and the beginning of 2009 the exhibition will travel to Denmark (Copenhagen: North Atlantic House: www.bryggen.dk/biodage, opening 1st of November 2008) and Iceland (Thjodmenninghus - Museum National Centre for Cultural Heritage: www.thjodmenning.is, presumably in March - December 2009).