This is a list of Swedish film directors. It includes some foreign-born

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Lasse Åberg Lars Gunnar Åberg (born 5 May 1940), known professionally as Lasse Åberg, is a Swedish actor, musician, film director and artist. Between 1960 and 1964 he studied at the Konstfack department of graphic design. Åberg has produced some of the m ...

Mac Ahlberg Mac Ahlberg (12 June 1931 – 26 October 2012) was a Swedish film director and cinematographer. Biography In the years 1952–1954 he was married to Ulla Olofsson (1923–2009) and 1955–1961 to the actress Anna-Greta Bergman. He had a daughter ...

Per Åhlin Per Johan Axel Åhlin (born 7 August 1931) is a Swedish artist and director of animated films. He is known for his collaborations with the comedy duo Hasse & Tage and for his own projects such as the feature film ''The Journey to Melonia''. Car ...

Marianne Ahrne Siv Marianne Ahrne (born 25 May 1940) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films between 1970 and 1997. Her 1976 film ''Near and Far Away'' won the award for Guldbagge Award for Best Director, Best Director at the 13t ...

Jonas Åkerlund Hans Uno Jonas Åkerlund (; born 10 November 1965) is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, music video director, and drummer. His video for Madonna's song "Ray of Light" won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form, and a record of fiv ...

* Daniel Alfredson *

Hans Alfredson Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson (28 June 1931 – 10 September 2017) was a Swedish actor, film director, writer, and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson as the duo Hasse & Tage and their p ...

* Tomas Alfredson *

Roy Andersson Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for ''A Swedish Love Story'' (1970), '' About Endlessness'' (2019) and his "Living trilogy," which includes '' Songs from the Second Floor'' (2000), '' You, ...

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Anders Banke Anders Banke (born 2 August 1969) is a Swedish director. He was born and raised in Ystad and developed an early interest in film. He was trained as a director at VGIK in Moscow and learned to speak Russian. There he met his friend and future collab ...

Daniel Bergman Daniel Sebastian Bergman (; born 7 September 1962) is a Swedish film director. He is the son of Ingmar Bergman and Käbi Laretei. As a child, Bergman appeared in a 1967 Swedish program called ''Stimulantia'', which consisted of eight episodes, ...

Eva Bergman Eva Bergman (born 5 September 1945) is a Swedish film, theatre and television director who worked at Dramaten. She is the daughter of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and was married to crime writer Henning Mankell Henning Georg Mankell ( ...

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, Film producer, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known ...

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Nils Olaf Chrisander Nils Olaf Chrisander (born Waldemar Olaf Chrisander, 14 February 1884 – 5 June 1947) was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth century. Biography Chrisander's first screen appearances as an actor were in German a ...

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Tage Danielsson Tage Danielsson (; 5 February 1928 – 13 October 1985) was a Swedish author, actor, comedian, poet and film director. He is best known for his collaboration with Hans Alfredson in the comedy duo Hasse & Tage. Career After graduation from ...

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Lena Einhorn Lena Einhorn (born 19 May 1954) is a Swedish director and writer and former physician. Early life and family Einhorn was born on 19 May 1954 in Spånga, Sweden. Her mother, Nina, escaped the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and settled in Swe ...

Hasse Ekman Hasse Ekman (born Hans Gösta Ekman; 10September 191515February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and Film producer, producer for film director, film, Theatre director, stage and television director, television. Biography Hasse Ekman ...

Marie-Louise Ekman Marie-Louise Ester Maude Ekman, ''née'' Fuchs, and known during her first marriage under the surname De Geer, and during and after her second as De Geer Bergenstråhle (born 5 November 1944) is a Swedish painter and film director. She is a profess ...

* Daniel Espinosa

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Daniel Fridell Daniel Fridell (born 31 March 1967) is a Swedish film director and producer. Early life Daniel Fridell grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. According to an interview in ''Aftonbladet'', Daniels grandmother, Saga Sjöberg, introduced him to filmmaking w ...

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Kjell Grede Kjell Birger Grede (12 August 1936 – 15 December 2017) was a Swedish film director.Mikael Håfström Jan Mikael Håfström is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2003 film ''Evil'', and the movie adaptation of Stephen King's short story '' 1408''. Early life Born in Lund, Sweden, Mikael Håfström studied film at ...

Lasse Hallström Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström (; born 2 June 1946) is a Swedish film director. He first became known for directing almost all the music videos by the pop group ABBA, and subsequently became a feature film director. He was nominated for an Acade ...

Geir Hansteen Jörgensen Geir Hansteen Jörgensen (born 18 February 1968) is a Swedish television, film and commercials director. His most famous works are probably the film and TV mini-series ''The New Country'' and ''The Soloists''. Both have received many awards internat ...

Klaus Härö Klaus Härö (born 31 March 1971 in Porvoo, Finland) is a Finnish film director. In 2004, he won Finland's State Prize for Art. Härö grew up in a Swedish-speaking Finnish family. He studied directing and attended screen writing seminars at the ...

* Olle Hellbom *

Richard Hobert Richard Hobert (born 1 December 1951, in Kalmar) is a Swedish scriptwriter and film director. Career Hobert studied political science, languages and film and theatre at the Lund University from 1970 to 1973. He debuted as a radio playwright in 19 ...

Anna Hofman-Uddgren Anna Maria Viktoria Hofman-Uddgren (23 February 18681 June 1947) ''née'' Hammarström; also known as ''Hoffman'' and ''Hofmann'', was a Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist, theatre director, and film director. Until 2 ...

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Stefan Jarl Stefan Jarl (born 18 March 1941) is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. Together with Jan Lindqvist he made the ''Mods Trilogy'', three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, ...

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Daniel Lind Lagerlöf Daniel Lind Lagerlöf (6 February 1969 – missing since 6 October 2011) is a Swedes, Swedish film director, director, screenwriter and film producer, producer who is presumed dead. Career Lagerlöf began his work in television as an assistant ...

Ella Lemhagen Ella Elisabet Lemhagen (born 29 August 1965 in Uppsala) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. In 2012 she received the honorary award, ''Gullspira'', for her outstanding work in youth culture on the Guldbagge Award (the Swedish equivalen ...

* Gunnel Lindblom *

Lars-Magnus Lindgren Lars-Magnus Lindgren (3 July 1922 – 23 November 2004) was a Swedish film director and screenwriter. His film '' Dear John'' (1964) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other works include ' (''Svarta pa ...

Ebba Lindkvist Ebba Johanna Bergman Lindkvist, also Lindqvist, (1882–1942) was a Swedish actress and film director. In 1910 she directed the short drama, ''Värmländingarna'', which premièred in Sweden on 27 October 1910. As a result, she is considered the ...

(1882–1942), Sweden's first female film director * Oscar A.C. Lund

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Ulf Malmros Ulf Peter Vilhelm Malmros (born 16 March 1965) is a Swedish screenwriter and film director. Career At age of 13 Malmros started making home movies. Later he moved to Stockholm and studied at Dramatiska Institutet. In 2006 Malmros received t ...

Arne Mattsson Arne Mattsson (2 December 1919 – 28 June 1995) was a Swedish film director. Biography Born in Uppsala, the early films of Mattsson were mostly comedies. His biggest success was '' Hon dansade en sommar'' (1951, aka. ''One Summer of Happiness ...

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Colin Nutley Colin James Nutley (born 28 February 1944) is an English director successful in the Swedish film industry. Career Nutley went to Portsmouth Art College and began his career in British television as a graphic designer. He then turned to drama and ...

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Stig Olin Stig Olin, né ''Högberg'' (11 September 1920 – 28 June 2008) was a Swedish actor, theatre director, songwriter and singer. He was the father of actress Lena Olin and singer Mats Olin. He was married to film actresses Britta Holmberg and ...

* Ruben Östlund

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Reza Parsa Reza Parsa is a Swedish film director. At the age of 22, he was admitted to the 4-year directing program at the National Film School of Denmark (1991–95) and directed the most award-winning (11 awards) graduation film, ''Never (Gränsen)'', i ...

Kay Pollak Kay Gunnar Leopold Pollak (born 21 May 1938) is a Swedish film director. Career After a long break from film-making, he returned in 2004 with ''As It Is in Heaven'' (''Så som i himmelen''), a major box office success in Sweden. The film was nomi ...

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Björn Runge Björn Lennart Runge is a Swedish director and author. He was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize in 2006 for ''Mun mot mun''. Runge was born in Lysekil. He has worked in film since he was 20 and with Roy Andersson, amongst others. H ...

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Alf Sjöberg Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg (21 June 1903 – 17 April 1980) was a Sweden, Swedish theatre director, theatre and film director. He won the Palme d'Or, Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for ''Torment (1944 film), Torment ...

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Victor Sjöström Victor David Sjöström (; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960), also known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in ...

Johan Söderberg Johan Olof Anders Söderberg (born 14 November 1962 in Bollnäs) is a Swedish film director and editor. He was considered part of the now terminated Swedish multimedia collective Lucky People Center. Söderberg is recognized for the work he has ...

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Kjell Sundvall Kjell Gösta Sundvall (born 31 March 1953) is a Swedish director/producer. Sundvall has directed a series of films about the police officer Martin Beck (played by Peter Haber). Selected filmography *2015 - ''Prästen i paradiset'' *2015 - ''I ...

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Maj Wechselmann Maj Wechselmann (born 1 April 1942, in Copenhagen), is a Danish-Swedish documentary director and filmmaker, known for expressing radical social criticism in her documentaries. Wechselmann was born in Copenhagen, the daughter of Bruno Wechselmann ...

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Mai Zetterling Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish film director, novelist and actor. Early life Zetterling was born in Västerås, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actor at the age of 17 at D ...

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