Niki Lindroth von Bahr

Directing

Niki Lindroth von Bahr

Born

1984-02-14 (42)

Place of birth

Stockholm, Sweden

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Niki Lindroth von Bahr is an artist and animation director based in Stockholm. Her award winning short films Something to Remember (2019), The Burden (2017), Bath House (2014) and Tord and Tord (2010) has been screened at festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto and Sundance. The Burden has since its premiere in 2017 won 82 awards, including the Cristal for Best Short Film in Annecy, Best International Short Film in Toronto and Guldbaggen for Best Short Film. Niki got her master degree in fine arts from The Royal Institute of Art in 2016. She is represented as an artist by Stene Projects Gallery in Stockholm and as a director by Nexus Studios in London. She is also a costume designer and h…

Known for

The House poster
7.0

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

The House

2022

The End poster
8.0

A stop-motion doomsday comedy, in which airport-bound creatures wait out the impending apocalypse.

The End

2026

Something to Remember poster
4.5

A bittersweet look at life’s many challenges, albeit as experienced by furry, feathered, and slimy creatures who sound and feel all too human.

Something to Remember

2019

The Burden poster
7.2

A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by Klungan. About liberation through great catastrophy.

The Burden

2017

The End poster
NR

A dark and poetic fable about death and existence, set in a large international airport. A plane with serious problems fails to contact the control tower, whose controlling pigs are absorbed in a reality show. A very heavy slug that works in the Duty Free store traffics products of extreme immorality. The waiter-dolphin who serves smoothies in a bar whose prohibitive prices loses his sanity. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure slips along the margins, preparing to come for all of us.

The End

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Coldplay: A Film for the Future poster
5.0

The visual accompaniment to Coldplay’s No 1 album Moon Music, created by over 150 different visual artists from 45 countries. Each artist was given a handful of music snippets from Moon Music and asked to create corresponding visuals. There were no rules or guidelines, and no knowledge of other artists’ creations.

Coldplay: A Film for the Future

2025

Film credits

Behind the camera

The House poster
7.0

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

The House

2022

The End poster
8.0

A stop-motion doomsday comedy, in which airport-bound creatures wait out the impending apocalypse.

The End

2026

The End poster
8.0

A stop-motion doomsday comedy, in which airport-bound creatures wait out the impending apocalypse.

The End

2026

Something to Remember poster
4.5

A bittersweet look at life’s many challenges, albeit as experienced by furry, feathered, and slimy creatures who sound and feel all too human.

Something to Remember

2019

Something to Remember poster
4.5

A bittersweet look at life’s many challenges, albeit as experienced by furry, feathered, and slimy creatures who sound and feel all too human.

Something to Remember

2019

The Burden poster
7.2

A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by Klungan. About liberation through great catastrophy.

The Burden

2017

The Burden poster
7.2

A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by Klungan. About liberation through great catastrophy.

The Burden

2017

The End poster
NR

A dark and poetic fable about death and existence, set in a large international airport. A plane with serious problems fails to contact the control tower, whose controlling pigs are absorbed in a reality show. A very heavy slug that works in the Duty Free store traffics products of extreme immorality. The waiter-dolphin who serves smoothies in a bar whose prohibitive prices loses his sanity. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure slips along the margins, preparing to come for all of us.

The End

—

Coldplay: A Film for the Future poster
5.0

The visual accompaniment to Coldplay’s No 1 album Moon Music, created by over 150 different visual artists from 45 countries. Each artist was given a handful of music snippets from Moon Music and asked to create corresponding visuals. There were no rules or guidelines, and no knowledge of other artists’ creations.

Coldplay: A Film for the Future

2025

Bath House poster
6.1

Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.

Bath House

2014

Tord and Tord poster
5.9

One day Tord accidentally walks in to the apartment next to his own. Another person named Tord lives there, he has just moved in. Tord and Tord start to spend time with each other.

Tord and Tord

2010

Tord and Tord poster
5.9

One day Tord accidentally walks in to the apartment next to his own. Another person named Tord lives there, he has just moved in. Tord and Tord start to spend time with each other.

Tord and Tord

2010

One Night in Moscow poster
NR

A music ensemble performs "One Night in Moscow" while a monkey man and a cat lady go on a date in the winter night.

One Night in Moscow

2008

One Night in Moscow poster
NR

A music ensemble performs "One Night in Moscow" while a monkey man and a cat lady go on a date in the winter night.

One Night in Moscow

2008