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Jan Lumholdt


320 articles available in total starting from 15/03/2018. Last article published on 06/09/2025.

Frida Kempff • Director of Knocking

Interview: Frida Kempff • Director of Knocking

“There are elements here that invite us to delve deep into, and gradually get lost in, the story”

We chatted to the Swedish director about her feature debut, a tense thriller about mysterious goings-on in an apartment building  

01/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | Midnight

Run Uje Run crowned Best Film and Amanda Kernell Best Director at the Swedish Guldbagge Awards

Run Uje Run crowned Best Film and Amanda Kernell Best Director at the Swedish Guldbagge Awards

There were big wins for the widely expected favourites at the downscaled awards ceremony  

26/01/2021 | Festivals | Awards | Sweden

Lennart Ström • Managing director, M:brane

Interview: Lennart Ström • Managing director, M:brane

“We are greatly looking forward to our comeback or – why not – our revenge!”

We caught up with the head of the Malmö-based co-production forum, for a chat about the forthcoming March edition  

21/01/2021 | M:brane 2021

Lisa Langseth • Director of Love & Anarchy

Interview: Lisa Langseth • Director of Love & Anarchy

“I’m quite aware of their various degrees of ineptitude, but I love every single character”

Swedish director Lisa Langseth talks about accidentally giving birth to Netflix series Love & Anarchy, about her love of inept characters and about decent treatment for creators, not least in her...  

04/11/2020 | /Sweden

Series review: Love & Anarchy

Series review: Love & Anarchy

Lisa Langseth’s play on the corporate and intellectual circles of metropolitan Stockholm is smart, silly fun for grown-ups, offering food for thought along the way  

04/11/2020 | Series | Reviews | Sweden

Julia von Heinz • Director of And Tomorrow the Entire World

Interview: Julia von Heinz • Director of And Tomorrow the Entire World

“I am my own research – I experienced so much of this myself”

VENICE 2020: We sat down with Julia von Heinz to get the low-down on her competition entry And Tomorrow the Entire World  

12/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

Interview: Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

“This film is more extreme because you don’t know where you are”

VENICE 2020: We talked to seemingly indefatigable documentary auteur Gianfranco Rosi about his competition entry Notturno  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: Notturno

Review: Notturno

VENICE 2020: The most meticulous of cinematic artists, Gianfranco Rosi, takes an intricate, compassionate and poetic look at daily life along the Middle Eastern front line  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Review: The Third War

Review: The Third War

VENICE 2020: Giovanni Aloi shines a spotlight on the everyday lives of a group of terrorist-hunting soldiers in the middle of a Paris that does not quite feel like the “City of Love”  

09/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid • Directors of Shorta

Interview: Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid • Directors of Shorta

“We’re a little like two bodies with one voice on set”

VENICE 2020: We talked to Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid about their film Shorta, centred on a police incident in contemporary Denmark and playing in this year's Critics' Week  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | International Film Critics' Week

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