Jeppe Rønde
Jeppe RØNDE (1973, Denmark) used to be a professional guitarist before he turned his focus to filmmaking and graduated from the Copenhagen film academy in 2002. He has been internationally successful as a documentary filmmaker, his second long documentary, The Swenkas (2005), was awarded Best International Director at Toronto International Film Festival. In 2009, he directed The Quatraro Mystery, a successful television series. Bridgend is his first feature film.
Filmography
Søn/Son (2001, short doc), Dansen i brændpunktet/Dancing in the Midst of War (2003, short doc, TV), Jerusalem, min elskede/Jerusalem, My Love (2004, doc), The Swenkas (2005, doc), Quatraro mysteriet/The Quatraro Mystery (2009, TV-series, doc), Girl in the Water (2011, short, co-dir), Bridgend (2015), The John Dalli Mystery (2017, doc), Almost Human (2019, doc), Acts of Love (2025)
Jeppe Rønde at IFFR
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Acts of Love
A brooding, intense account of forbidden love from the director of the controversial Bridgend.
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Bridgend
Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the sta
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Girl in the Water
A film featuring real fishermen, a real young mother and a story as real as a hallucination.