Directing

Clara Bodén

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Not Until Now poster
NR

A call center in Stockholm marks the starting point for a poetic and reflective documentary about what it means to live off the forest. With a unique tone and exquisite storytelling, director Clara Bodén explores the escalating distance between city and countryside.

Not Until Now

2021

Not Until Now poster
NR

A call center in Stockholm marks the starting point for a poetic and reflective documentary about what it means to live off the forest. With a unique tone and exquisite storytelling, director Clara Bodén explores the escalating distance between city and countryside.

Not Until Now

2021

Not Until Now poster
NR

A call center in Stockholm marks the starting point for a poetic and reflective documentary about what it means to live off the forest. With a unique tone and exquisite storytelling, director Clara Bodén explores the escalating distance between city and countryside.

Not Until Now

2021

The Power Grid poster
NR

The Power Grid is about feeling tricked, seeing how a place is exploited and asking what is left of it. A personal film about power production and colonialism, about growing up surrounded by a wealth of mighty natural resources but being told you live in a poor region.

The Power Grid

2018

The Power Grid poster
NR

The Power Grid is about feeling tricked, seeing how a place is exploited and asking what is left of it. A personal film about power production and colonialism, about growing up surrounded by a wealth of mighty natural resources but being told you live in a poor region.

The Power Grid

2018

Apt. + Car + All I Have and Own poster
5.5

In Bodén’s hometown of Jämtland, staying put is anathema: speaking to a group of kids about this drive to leave home, she is told by a male student that only “stupid girls” would stay there any longer than is necessary. This hits home with Bodén, who was prompted to her research here by a conversation in which her sister declared, “I don’t think I’m worth more than Jämtland.” After her initial dismissiveness of her sister’s statement, she started to second-guess the conversation and her own ingrained notions of what it meant. This film is about Bodén’s search for understanding.

Apt. + Car + All I Have and Own

2014

Apt. + Car + All I Have and Own poster
5.5

In Bodén’s hometown of Jämtland, staying put is anathema: speaking to a group of kids about this drive to leave home, she is told by a male student that only “stupid girls” would stay there any longer than is necessary. This hits home with Bodén, who was prompted to her research here by a conversation in which her sister declared, “I don’t think I’m worth more than Jämtland.” After her initial dismissiveness of her sister’s statement, she started to second-guess the conversation and her own ingrained notions of what it meant. This film is about Bodén’s search for understanding.

Apt. + Car + All I Have and Own

2014

Apt. + Car + All I Have and Own poster
5.5

In Bodén’s hometown of Jämtland, staying put is anathema: speaking to a group of kids about this drive to leave home, she is told by a male student that only “stupid girls” would stay there any longer than is necessary. This hits home with Bodén, who was prompted to her research here by a conversation in which her sister declared, “I don’t think I’m worth more than Jämtland.” After her initial dismissiveness of her sister’s statement, she started to second-guess the conversation and her own ingrained notions of what it meant. This film is about Bodén’s search for understanding.

Apt. + Car + All I Have and Own

2014

Verden venter poster
NR

Three Swedish actresses work as waitresses in Oslo one summer. They use all their wits to get as much tips as possible. They plan to start a company and buy a house. They come to be our guides in the film and reveal a world of people doing things they don't want to do, playing roles they don't know why they're playing.

Verden venter

2014

No artwork available
NR

Somewhere in the Balkans, in a garden hidden by a large house, a story unfolds of a great love between two young women. Neither of them wishes to accept that their relationship might ever end. What happens, then, when one day fate takes an unexpected turn? Is it possible to part so suddenly from your beloved?

I'm Leaving on Wednesday

2012

Ingen sömn på Stengatan poster
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A nightly inventory of Luleå from Mattias Alkberg's song Ingen sömn på Stengatan with focus on people who work night shift. Workers at steelworks, home service, a guard on a nightly crossfit pass, a bus driver and a few more who do not sleep this January night.

Ingen sömn på Stengatan

2016