Isabella Eklöf

Directing

Isabella Eklöf

Born

1978-02-10 (48)

Place of birth

Östra Ryd, Sweden

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Isabella Jenny Karolina Eklöf (born 10 February 1978; Östra Ryd) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. Eklöf attended the National Film School of Denmark. She served on the crew as a "runner" for the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In. Eklöf co-wrote the 2018 Swedish film Border with director Ali Abbasi; together they expanded on the source material, a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist. For Border, Eklöf, Abbasi and Lindqvist were nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay; they were also nominated for the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter. She also wrote and directed the 2018 Danish film Holiday, for which she won the New Wave Best Picture and New Wave Best…

Known for

Border poster
6.7

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

Border

2018

Holiday poster
5.3

Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, where she is welcomed into his inner circle. Under the summer sun, she lives a carefree dream of luxury and fun until she meets Tomas, a Dutch traveler trying to discover himself.

Holiday

2018

Kalak poster
6.0

Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a "true" and "dirty" Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. Ultimately, he has to confront his father.

Kalak

2024

No artwork available
NR

A love story following Katarina, an ambitious and talented singer with an appetite for life but little self-discipline. When she meets the mysterious Mr. Nawashi online, her eyes are opened to a new world – a BDSM relationship in which unwavering submission and devotion are met with attention, care, strict coaching, and a tantalising play with physical pain.

Mr. Nawashi

—

Triptych poster
NR

A three-part short film of women's roles, power, frustration and desires. Three small movies that form a unit together. The first film treats the anxiety of being subordinate, the second film treats the frustration of being near somebody who wants to kill and the third film is about wanting someone.

Triptych

2007

Notes from Underground poster
5.2

A bitterly ironical view on the absurd everyday life of a pedophile and the little girl he keeps in his cellar.

Notes from Underground

2011

Film credits

Behind the camera

Border poster
6.7

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

Border

2018

Holiday poster
5.3

Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, where she is welcomed into his inner circle. Under the summer sun, she lives a carefree dream of luxury and fun until she meets Tomas, a Dutch traveler trying to discover himself.

Holiday

2018

Holiday poster
5.3

Sascha, the young and beautiful trophy girlfriend of a Danish drug lord, arrives at his holiday villa in the seaside town of Bodrum, on the Turkish Riviera, where she is welcomed into his inner circle. Under the summer sun, she lives a carefree dream of luxury and fun until she meets Tomas, a Dutch traveler trying to discover himself.

Holiday

2018

Kalak poster
6.0

Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a "true" and "dirty" Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. Ultimately, he has to confront his father.

Kalak

2024

Kalak poster
6.0

Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a "true" and "dirty" Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. Ultimately, he has to confront his father.

Kalak

2024

No artwork available
NR

A love story following Katarina, an ambitious and talented singer with an appetite for life but little self-discipline. When she meets the mysterious Mr. Nawashi online, her eyes are opened to a new world – a BDSM relationship in which unwavering submission and devotion are met with attention, care, strict coaching, and a tantalising play with physical pain.

Mr. Nawashi

—

No artwork available
NR

A love story following Katarina, an ambitious and talented singer with an appetite for life but little self-discipline. When she meets the mysterious Mr. Nawashi online, her eyes are opened to a new world – a BDSM relationship in which unwavering submission and devotion are met with attention, care, strict coaching, and a tantalising play with physical pain.

Mr. Nawashi

—

Triptych poster
NR

A three-part short film of women's roles, power, frustration and desires. Three small movies that form a unit together. The first film treats the anxiety of being subordinate, the second film treats the frustration of being near somebody who wants to kill and the third film is about wanting someone.

Triptych

2007

Triptych poster
NR

A three-part short film of women's roles, power, frustration and desires. Three small movies that form a unit together. The first film treats the anxiety of being subordinate, the second film treats the frustration of being near somebody who wants to kill and the third film is about wanting someone.

Triptych

2007

Notes from Underground poster
5.2

A bitterly ironical view on the absurd everyday life of a pedophile and the little girl he keeps in his cellar.

Notes from Underground

2011

Notes from Underground poster
5.2

A bitterly ironical view on the absurd everyday life of a pedophile and the little girl he keeps in his cellar.

Notes from Underground

2011

Willy Kyrklund poster
NR

Short documentary portrait of the acclaimed author and poet.

Willy Kyrklund

2002

Willy Kyrklund poster
NR

Short documentary portrait of the acclaimed author and poet.

Willy Kyrklund

2002

Welcome to Barbaristan poster
NR

A clash of cultures takes place when a dark skinned girl guests a German family as an exchange student.

Welcome to Barbaristan

2009

Welcome to Barbaristan poster
NR

A clash of cultures takes place when a dark skinned girl guests a German family as an exchange student.

Welcome to Barbaristan

2009