Lisa Jespersen

Lisa JESPERSEN (1988, Denmark) attended the European Film College and studied film directing at the National Film School of Denmark. She has made several short films, all of them dealing with the comic aspect of people’s existential crises. Her graduation short film September (2018) was praised for “its precise and very emphatic portrait of a woman in her sixties and the difficulties that come with that age”. Persona Non Grata (2021) is her feature debut.
Filmography
(selection) September (2018, short), Hvor kragerne vender/Persona Non Grata (2021)
Lisa Jespersen at IFFR
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Persona Non Grata
Painful childhood memories confront a Danish author when she returns to her rural roots for a family wedding.