
Directing
Isabella Eklöf
Born 1978-02-10 · Östra Ryd, Sweden
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 Director awards at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas; Holiday went on to win four Bodil Awards, including Best Danish Film.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.7When 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
5.4Sascha, 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
5.4Sascha, 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
NRShort documentary portrait of the acclaimed author and poet.
Willy Kyrklund
2002
NRShort documentary portrait of the acclaimed author and poet.
Willy Kyrklund
2002
6.0Jan, 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
6.0Jan, 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
A BDSM love story and the first film produced under the Dogma 25 banner. Described as "a passionate drama between two people who like to tie each other up." Plot details TBA.
Mr. Nawashi
—
A BDSM love story and the first film produced under the Dogma 25 banner. Described as "a passionate drama between two people who like to tie each other up." Plot details TBA.
Mr. Nawashi
—
NRA 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
NRA 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
5.2A bitterly ironical view on the absurd everyday life of a pedophile and the little girl he keeps in his cellar.
Notes from Underground
2011
5.2A bitterly ironical view on the absurd everyday life of a pedophile and the little girl he keeps in his cellar.
Notes from Underground
2011
NRA clash of cultures takes place when a dark skinned girl guests a German family as an exchange student.
Welcome to Barbaristan
2009
NRA clash of cultures takes place when a dark skinned girl guests a German family as an exchange student.
Welcome to Barbaristan
2009