
Directing
Lea Glob
Born 1982-08-20 · Mariager, Denmark
Lea Glob (born 20 August 1982; Mariager) is a Danish documentary filmmaker. She is a director and writer, known for Olmo & the Seagull (2015), Venus (2016) and Apolonia, Apolonia (2022).
Acting credits
Behind the camera
5.3During casting sessions, young women from Copenhagen talk candidly about their sexual experiences. Initially, the two female directors wanted to make a film as a way of better understanding their own sexual desires and frustrations. In response to a casting call, more than a hundred ordinary young women turned up and talked straight into the camera about their erotic fantasies. As shooting progressed, the filmmakers realized that these intimate casting sessions should in fact be the final film.
Venus
2016
No synopsis available yet.
Bondefanget
2005
6.7When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a storybook life. The talented Apolonia was born in an underground theater in Paris and grew up in an artists’ community—the ultimate bohemian existence. In her 20s, she studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, one of the most prestigious art academies in Europe. Over the years, Lea Glob kept returning to film the charismatic Apolonia and a special bond developed between the two young women.
Apolonia, Apolonia
2023
6.7When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a storybook life. The talented Apolonia was born in an underground theater in Paris and grew up in an artists’ community—the ultimate bohemian existence. In her 20s, she studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, one of the most prestigious art academies in Europe. Over the years, Lea Glob kept returning to film the charismatic Apolonia and a special bond developed between the two young women.
Apolonia, Apolonia
2023
NRLea never met her father. One day, she was told by the police that he had committed suicide after 14 years in prison. This is a story about a father, a bank robber and a magician and about how his daughter got to know him backwards.
Meeting My Father Kasper Tophat
2011
NRDocumentary about the Danish pianist Carsten Dahl.
Det forbandede talent
2019
7.2'Olmo and the Seagull' is a poetic and existential dive into an actress's mind during the nine months of her pregnancy as she must confront her most fiery inner demons while trying to rewrite a new philosophy of life, identity and love. Underlying this hybrid film is mounting tension over what is real and what is enacted when one is performing one's own life.
Olmo and the Seagull
2015
7.2'Olmo and the Seagull' is a poetic and existential dive into an actress's mind during the nine months of her pregnancy as she must confront her most fiery inner demons while trying to rewrite a new philosophy of life, identity and love. Underlying this hybrid film is mounting tension over what is real and what is enacted when one is performing one's own life.
Olmo and the Seagull
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Lykketoft og de lejlighedsvist Forenede Nationer
2017
6.8A poignant portrait of a family of asylum seekers desperate to start a new life, but stalled in bureaucratic limbo.
Love Child
2019
10.0The director’s diary told in still images of a dramatic period in which he becomes first a father and then almost loses the love of his life when his girlfriend – filmmaker Lea Glob – goes into a coma after giving birth.
Papa – Notes on Life and Death
2023
