Lone Scherfig

In 1984 she graduated in Film Directing from Denmark’s National Film School and made her directorial debut with The Birthday Trip (1990), selected for the Panorama section of the Berlin Festival. With Italian for Beginners she achieved international recognition and awards like the Jury Prize in Berlin and the Golden Spike, the Best Actor Award (for Peter Gantzler) and the Youth Award in Valladolid. Two years later, she again participated in Seminci with Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, which won the best actor award for Jamie Sives, and in 2009 she received three Oscar nominations for An Education, including one for best film. Since then she has directed films like One Day (2011), The Riot Club (2014), Their Finest (2017) and The Kindness of Strangers (2019), which opened that year’s Berlinale.

Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid