The cinema of the Faroe Islands does not have a long history.

The Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...

 has a small population, and due to the high initial cost of movie making, the islands' cinema history is modest. (On the other hand, writing and book publishing is very popular). The first director of the Faroe Islands was Katrin Ottarsdóttir

Katrin Ottarsdóttir

Katrin Ottarsdóttir is a Faroese movie director.Katrin Ottarsdóttir went to Denmark in 1976 and is the first person from the Faroe Islands to study at the film school in Copenhagen...

. Her first film set in the Faroe Islands was Atlantic Rhapsody

Atlantic Rhapsody

Atlantic Rhapsody is a 1989 Faroese documentary film by Katrin Ottarsdóttir. The original Faroese title is Atlantic Rhapsody - 52 myndir úr Tórshavn, where the second part means "52 pictures from Tórshavn". The film presents a day in the life of some inhabitants of Tórshavn, the capital of the...

in 1989. However, the first feature films in Faroese language with full Faroese castings ("Rannvà", "Heystblómur" and "Pall Fángi" were made in the mid-seventies by Miguel M. Hidalgo, a Spaniard who stayed for several years in the Faroe Islands.

Recently self-taught Johan Rimestad directed the self-financed feature Karrybollarnir, which takes place in Tórshavn.

This is a list of films concerning the Faroe Islands:

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• 1990 - 1700 meter fra fremtiden ("1700 meters far from future" about the remote village Gásadalur
  Gásadalur
  Gásadalur is located on the west-side of Vágar, Faroe Islands, and enjoys a panoramic view over the island of Mykines.Gásadalur is located on the edge of Mykinesfjørður, surrounded by the highest mountains on Vágar. Árnafjall towers to a height of 722 metres to the north, and Eysturtindur to the...
  
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• 2003 - Brudepigen - Færgeturen - Jagten på kæledyret
  Brudepigen - Færgeturen - Jagten på kæledyret
  Brudepigen – Færgeturen – Jagten på kæledyret is a 2003 Faroese film documentary filmed in Ghana directed by Helle Melander.-External links:* http://www.filmport.dk/artikel.php?docid=25291964_160500...
  
  
• 1997 - Barbara (Denmark
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
  )
• 2002 - Burturhugur
• 1999 - Bye Bye Bluebird
  Bye Bye Bluebird
  Bye Bye Bluebird is a 1999 Danish-Faroese comedy film directed by Katrin Ottarsdóttir and starring Hildigunn Eyðfinsdóttir and Sigri Mitra Gaïni. The satirical film relates the tale of two eccentric young women who, after years abroad, return to their native Faroe Islands, and embark on a strange...
  
  (road movie)

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• 1976 - Heystblómur A film by Miguel M. Hidalgo. A modern tale about the impossible love of a schoolgirl and her older teacher.

Cast: Poul Kjartan Bærentsen, Katrin M. Johansen, Finnur Johansen, Ása Lützhöft Dunn.

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• 2009 - Karrybollarnir A film by Johan Rimestad. A mockumentary
  Mockumentary
  A mockumentary , is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself...
  
   about a fictional faroese rockband and their rise to fame.

Cast: Hallur Hjalgrímsson, Hjálmar Dam, Nikolaj Falk, Turpin N. Djuurhus, Hanna Flóvinsdóttir.

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• 1977 - Páll Fangi A film by Miguel M. Hidalgo about a popular Faroese character.

Cast: Hans Jacob Hermansen, Kári Petersen, Sofía Sørensen, Jens John Osterø, Fraser Eysturoy,
Høgni Joensen, Benny Samuelsen.

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• 1975 - Rannvá (film version of Dagmar Joensen-Naes novel, produced and directed by Miguel M. Hidalgo.

Cast: Finnur Johansen, Elin Mouritsen, Gudrid H. Nielsen, Jørleif Kúrberg, Róland Samuelsen,
Mortan A. Carlsen, Anna Maria Petersen, Hans Joensen, Fraser Eysturoy and more.

Film trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WKiPrZTsAw

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• 1992 - Tre blink mod vest

• 2005 - Trøllini og Mafian A children's film directed by Kári Sverrisson.

See also

• Cinema of the world
• Sjónvarp Føroya
  Sjónvarp Føroya
  Sjónvarp Føroya means "Television of the Faroe Islands". It is the only public TV station in the small country of 48,000 inhabitants, speaking their own Faroese language....
  
  (Faroese Broadcasting corporation)