
Writing
Mona Fastvold
Born 1986-03-07 · Oslo, Norway
Mona Fastvold (born 7 March 1981) is a Norwegian filmmaker and actress. She is best known for directing the drama films The Sleepwalker (2014), The World to Come (2020) and The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) and for co-writing The Brutalist (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mona Fastvold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
6.2Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
The Other Woman
2010
5.8In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.
Vox Lux
2018
7.0Seven love story vignettes, capturing different moments in couple's relationships. Ranging from first kiss to breaking up, the film unfolds over the course of one day, moving around the neighborhoods of New York City.
Snapshots
2010
6.0Four young Napoleons try to find a way not have to worry where their next meal is coming from
Capo Nord
2003
Behind the camera
6.9When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.
The Brutalist
2024
7.0In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
The World to Come
2021
6.3The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
The Testament of Ann Lee
2025
6.3The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
The Testament of Ann Lee
2025
6.3The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.
The Testament of Ann Lee
2025
6.1The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
The Childhood of a Leader
2016
6.1The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
The Childhood of a Leader
2016
6.0The film examines girlhood as inherited performance-costumes worn before identity forms. Mona frames femininity as simultaneous nurture and constraint, exploring how intimacy between girls and garments becomes predetermined theatre. Clothing functions as ritual and control, dictating movement before self-knowledge arrives.
Discipline
2026
Set mainly in 1970s America, the story explores American mysticism and the occult. It spans 150 years, tracing Chinese immigration to California and the evolution of cult-like belief systems.
The Origin of the World
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NRGrieving photographer Lu Rile moves into a run-down artists' warehouse in 1990s Brooklyn, where she befriends Katherine, an accomplished painter who lives downstairs. When Katherine suffers her own tragic loss, Lu unknowingly captures the incident in one of her self-portraits, creating a sublime but terrifying image. Consumed with their mutual grief and intensifying relationship, the women discover that they are haunted by a demonic force intent on shaking their reality.
Self-Portrait
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NRGrieving photographer Lu Rile moves into a run-down artists' warehouse in 1990s Brooklyn, where she befriends Katherine, an accomplished painter who lives downstairs. When Katherine suffers her own tragic loss, Lu unknowingly captures the incident in one of her self-portraits, creating a sublime but terrifying image. Consumed with their mutual grief and intensifying relationship, the women discover that they are haunted by a demonic force intent on shaking their reality.
Self-Portrait
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3.8A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia's secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia's sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira.
The Sleepwalker
2014
3.8A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia's secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia's sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira.
The Sleepwalker
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
David Byrne: Who Is The Sky?
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