Lukas Moodysson
Lukas MOODYSSON (1969, Malmo, Sweden) studied directing at the Dramatiska Institutet, where he made his first short films. He is also a writer and made his debut at 17 with an anthology of poetry. In 1999, he made his debut as a film director with the successful Fucking Åmål. Besides this film, IFFR also screened Together (2000), Lilya 4-Ever (2002), A Hole in My Heart (2004) and Container (2006). In 2024 he will once again join IFFR with Together 99 (2023).
Filmography
Det var en mörk och stormig natt (1994, short), En uppgörelse i den undre världen (1995, short), Bara prata lite (1997, short), Fucking Åmål/Show Me Love (1999), Tillsammans/Together (2000), Det nya landet (2000, TV), Lilya 4-ever (2002), Terrorister – en film om dom dömda/Terrorists – The Kids They Sentenced (2003, doc, co-dir), Ett hål i mitt hjärta/A Hole in My Heart (2004), Container (2006), Mammoth (2009), Vi är bäst!/Film: We Are the Best! (2014), Gösta (2019, TV series), Together 99 (2023)
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Lukas Moodysson at IFFR
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Together 99
Erstwhile members of a commune reunite after twenty-four years in a biting ensemble comedy.
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Container
Hypnotic experiment in grubby black & white: Moodysson keeps getting more radical. Sombre and intractable, yet also intelligent and brimming w
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Fucking Åmål
The blossoming love between two girls in a boring Swedish village: Elin, the most popular girl in the class, and the stiff Agnes. In Åmal, everyone
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Together
Hilarious scenes in a Swedish commune in the 1970s. Both a dramatic and satirical picture of a culture in which sex, joints and organic vegetables
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Lilya 4-Ever
In Lukas (Fucking Åmål, Together) Moodysson’s darkest drama so far, a naïve Russian girl finds herself in the world of loverboys and prostitu
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Closing Film: We Are the Best!
Latest film by Swedish director and master provocateur Lukas Moodysson (Fucking Åmål, Mammoth) is based on a comic book by his wife Coco. About tee
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A Hole in my Heart
Claustrophobic study of a weekend making amateur porn. A teenage son listens to loud music in his room, while father and his two “stars”