Directing
Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
Born
1968-12-18 (57)
Known for
Directing
Credits
4 titles
A Swedish director, born in Uppland and educated in Stockholm.
Known for
6.5A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
The New Country
2000
After the divorce 14-year old Nina lives with her father, a UFO-observer. He's not the warmest of fathers, which troubles their relationship. One night, when he is out looking for aliens, she takes his car to go to a party, but crashes it. Her father mistakes the crash for aliens landing. —Kurt Aerden
Close Encounter
1997
NRClaes is a pensioner whose greatest wish is to finally make it to the nearby cinema. What if it rains? What if his sweater doesn’t match the shirt he is wearing? It's probably better to stay in the safety of his own home and switch on the television. In the total isolation of his solitary life, and out of an entirely unfounded fear of stepping outside his flat, Claes has turned his tidy home into a prison. This is a film that demonstrates what loneliness can do to a person.
Claes
2011
Behind the camera
6.5A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
The New Country
2000
After the divorce 14-year old Nina lives with her father, a UFO-observer. He's not the warmest of fathers, which troubles their relationship. One night, when he is out looking for aliens, she takes his car to go to a party, but crashes it. Her father mistakes the crash for aliens landing. —Kurt Aerden
Close Encounter
1997
After the divorce 14-year old Nina lives with her father, a UFO-observer. He's not the warmest of fathers, which troubles their relationship. One night, when he is out looking for aliens, she takes his car to go to a party, but crashes it. Her father mistakes the crash for aliens landing. —Kurt Aerden
Close Encounter
1997
NRClaes is a pensioner whose greatest wish is to finally make it to the nearby cinema. What if it rains? What if his sweater doesn’t match the shirt he is wearing? It's probably better to stay in the safety of his own home and switch on the television. In the total isolation of his solitary life, and out of an entirely unfounded fear of stepping outside his flat, Claes has turned his tidy home into a prison. This is a film that demonstrates what loneliness can do to a person.
Claes
2011
