Kristina Lindström

Sundbyberg, Sweden, 1957

 

Director

Lindström is a Swedish writer and journalist. In 1979, she graduated in journalism in Göteborg and then got a job in a daily newspaper. She was a radio producer on the Swedish radio from 1984 to 1994. Afterwards she worked as a television producer and from 2000 to 2010, she was the editor of the cultural department on Swedish television. Together with Maud Nycander she directed and wrote the screenplay for the documentary Palme (2012). Two years later she directed the TV documentary about the writer Astrid Lindgren Astrid (2014), which was very popular.

Filmography


Films by this director

Palme

(2012.)

Directed by: Kristina Lindström
PHOTOGRAPHY: Magnus Berg, Anders Bohman
Synopsis:

Documentary about the former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. In his early forties he became leader of the Social Democratic Party, and soon after he served two terms as prime minister during the 1970s and 1980s. His life was abruptly ended by assassination on February 28, 1986, while he was walking home from cinema with his wife. His personal and professional portrait is shown through archive footage and interviews with people he was in contact with.

color, digital, 105 min

Astrid

(Sweden, 2014)

Directed by: Kristina Lindström
PHOTOGRAPHY: Sven Lindahl, Erik Vallsten
Synopsis:

Director Kristina Lindström used the previously unpublished recordings, letters and photographs in order to tell the story about Astrid Lindgren, famous Swedish writer and author of novels about Pippi Longstocking and many others. She was born in 1907 in rural Sweden in a very religious milieu and became famous throughout the world. She had a big impact on politics, public debate as an active opponent of war and racism and supporter of animals and children’s rights.

b/w and color, digital, 90 min
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