Ólafur Egilsson

Based on the infamous case of the Isdal Woman

Written with Benedikt Erlingsson. WOMAN AT WAR received its world premiere during the 57th Cannes Critics' Week in 2018. Ólafur and Benedikt were awarded the Cannes Critics’ Week SACD Prize for Best Screenplay and and accepting the NDR Film Prize, the Baltic Film Prize for a Nordic fiction film, the Interfilm Church Prize, the audience award at Lübeck Nordic Film Days 2018, and the LUX Film Prize awarded by the European Parliament. The film received the prestigious Nordic Council Film Prize in 2018 and is Iceland's nomination in the Foreign Language Category at Oscars 2019. WOMAN AT WAR was picked as one of Variety's mid-year 15 Best Films of 2019

Written with Baltasar Kormákur. TIFF 2016: Official Selection; San Sebastián International Film Festival 2016: Nominated for the Golden Seashell Award

With Bjarni Haukur Thorsson

Co-written with Ottó Geir Borg & Árni Ásgeirsson. EDDA Awards 2011: winner of 6 awards, including Best Film. Nominated for the Nordic Council's Film Prize 2011

Co-written by Grímur Hákonarson. Austin Fantastic Fest 2011: winner of the Best Screenplay Award

Co-written by Baltasar Kormákur. EDDA Awards 2008: winner of 7 awards, including Best Film. Nominated for the Nordic Council's Film Prize 2008

10 x 60' TV series set in a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town. EDDA Awards 2016: winner of 3 awards, including Best Television Drama/Comedy of the Year

A guilt-ridden taxi driver takes a desperate passenger to her destination. On the journey their fates collide and they both realise that they have to make a final sacrifice in order to be redeemed

Co-written with Simon Birgisson and Atli Rafn Sigurðarson. Theatre adaptation of Halldór Laxness's novel

Theatre adaptation of a novel by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir

Theatre adaptation of a novel by Bergsveinn Birgisson

Starred Brynhildur Guðjónsdóttir

Theatre adaptation of a novel by Auður Jónsdóttir. Winner of the Icelandic Playwright of The Year Award 2011

Theatre adaptation of a novel by Halldór Laxness