It is stranger than fiction and more frightening than any Nordic Noir drama, yet the unsettling disappearances of Guðmundur Einarsson and Geirfinnur Einarsson in 1974 still continue to haunt and fascinate Iceland today. Even for those who haven’t kept up with the case, it’s pretty easy not to become intrigued by the...

Nursing a broken heart after the demise of a relationship, Icelandic film maker Erlingur Ottar Thoroddsen turned the focus back to his first love: film. “I’d just gone through a break-up, lost a big job making another movie and was forced to move from New York back to Iceland,” he explains from Los Angeles, where...