Lisa Ohlin

New York, USA, 1960.

 

Director
Swedish director and screenwriter. She studied art and film at the New York University. During her studies and for several years after, she worked in theatre and painted, after which she made her transition to film. She started making her first short films during the mid-nineties, and her first feature film was Veranda för en tenor (1998). One more short film was followed by the dramas Tillfällig fru sökes (2003) and Sex hopp och kärlek (2005). She then concentrated on screenwriting and directing the comedy TV show Kvalster (2005). From 2007 to 2009, she worked at the Swedish Film Institute, selecting screenplays to be made into feature films. Wanting to direct again, she left her job and made a new film, Simon and the Oaks (Simon och ekarna, 2011).

Filmography


Films by this director

Simon and the Oaks

(Simon och ekarna, 2011.)

Directed by: Lisa Ohlin
PHOTOGRAPHY: Dan Laustsen
Synopsis:

Young Simon lives in a happy working class family in rural Sweden. He is intellectually gifted, and talks his parents into enrolling him into a prestigious school. There he makes friends with a rich “city” boy Isak. His father Ruben is a Jew who escaped to Sweden from Nazi persecution, but his family suffers the effects of anti-Semitism in the new country as well. Fascinated by Ruben’s books, art and music, Simon wants to find out more about his own family background.

color, DCP, 122 min
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