Solveig Nordlund
Curriculum Vitae
Solveig Nordlund was born in Stockholm, but has lived and worked in Portugal since more than 30 years. She works in film and television but also theatre, where she’s worked as a producer and director. In 2012 she returned to Sweden and now lives on the High Coast in the north of Sweden.
She began her career as assistant director and editor, working in films by Manoel de Oliveira, Alberto Seixas Santos and João César Monteiro. She studied film in London and Paris. She proceeded on directing several documentaries both for Portuguese and Swedish television, other than short and feature films presented and awarded in Locarno, Rome, Mar del Plata, Rotterdam, Montréal, São Paulo, New York and Stockholm, among many other festivals.
FILMOGRAPHY
2018 MIA COUTO, I am the author of my name. Documentary about theMozambican writer Mia Couto.
2016 BIRGIT PÅ KÖRNINGSGÅRDEN short film about the founder of Konstrundan in Nordingrå.
2016 REPUBLIKEN HERRSKOG, a documentary about refugees in a small village in northern Sweden , director Hamed Alizadeh, production Solveig Nordllund
2014 MY OTHER COUNTRY, a personal film about Solveig Nordlund´s life in Portugal through films directed by her or films she collaborated in. PORTUGUESE SOPHIA for best short documentary 2015.
2014 THE VIEW FROM MY WINDOW , short film installation
2013 MANNAMINNE documentary about the Swedish artist Anders Aberg
2012 Nós por Elas, Serie of portraits of female Portuguese writers
2011 THE DEATH OF CARLOS GARDEL, feature film based on a novel by António Lobo Antunes Fipresci award Best Feature Film at Uruguai Film Festival.
IN TRANSIT, documentary about Portuguese artist José Pedro Croft
2010 CONVERSAS NO CABELEIREIRO, three documentaries for RTP2 about women artists
2009 O ESPELHO LENTO (The Slow Mirror), short film
Awards: Best Drama at NYC Downtown Short Film Festival
ESCREVER, ESCREVER, VIVER, documentary about the Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes
2008 ANOTHER MEMORY, short film
2007 NÓS POR ELES (As they see us), five documentaries about foreign writers in Portugal
2005 O BEIJO (The Kiss), short film
2004 AUNT LINNEA AND THE WORLD, short film
Festivals: Gothenburg – Sweden, Fike – Portugal, Badajoz and Huelva – Spain
TOMORROW, short film, RTP release
Awards: Best Portuguese Film at Algarve International Film Festival, Best Director at Festival Curitiba – Brazil, Best Sound and Best Editing at Festival Larissa, Greece
Other festivals: Badajoz and Hesca – Spain, Jeonju – South Korea, Vila do Conde and Coimbra – Portugal, Siena – Italy, Tánger – Morocco, Manchester – UK
2003 A FILHA (My Baby, Pappas Flicka, La Fille), feature film
Theatrically released in Portugal 25th April 2003, France 10th December 2003, Sweden 13th of March 2004
Awards: Nominated for the Portuguese Golden Globe 2004 for Best Actress
Festivals: Cannes-Market 2003, Copenhagen International Film Festival 2003, Montreal World Film Festival 2003, S. Paulo 2003, Cairo 2003, Mumbai 2003, Montreal Iberoamerican Film Festival 2003, Gothenburg 2004, Mar del Plata 2004, Cleveland 2004, Minnesota 2004, Carthage 2004, Minneapolis 2004
2002 LOW-FLYING AIRCRAFT, feature film based on a novel by J. G. Ballard
Theatrically released in Portugal Spring 2002, Sweden 13th March 2004, broadcasted on BBC November 2003
Awards: Nominated for the Portuguese Golden Globe 2003 for Best Actress, Best Film at Caminhos do Cinema Português, Coimbra – Portugal
Other festivals: 16 th Singapore International Film Festival, 10º Festival Europeu do Filme Português – Prague, Mar del Plata: La Mujer e El Cine 2003, Brussels Fantasy 2002, Cairo Film Fest 2002, Cinéma Au Féminin 2002, Goteborg Film Fest 2002, Utopiales 2002, Barcelona CCCB 2008
1999 THE TICKET INSPECTOR, short film
Awards: Onda Curta Award, Avanca – Portugal
Other festivals: Uppsala and Umeå – Sweden, Aix-en Provence – France
1998 A VOICE IN THE NIGHT, short film
Festivals: Rome, Locarno, Vila do Conde
1997 COMÉDIA INFANTIL, feature film based on a novel by Henning Mankell, Swedish/Portuguese/Mozambican co-production
Theatrically released in Sweden, Portugal, Mozambique, South Africa, U.S.A., France
Awards: Grand Prix du 1er Festival d’Afrique et les Iles (La Réunion) 2004, Grand Prix Cannes Junior 1999, Prix de la Ville de Sainte Foy-lès-Lyon France 2000, Prix Graine de Cinéphage at Festival de Films de Femmes Créteil, France 1998, Prix CineJunior, Paris-Val de Marne 1998, Prix du Jury International Figueira da Foz 1998, nominated for the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 1998
Other festivals: Seattle, Vancouver, Créteil, Edinburgh, Mar del Plata, London, Hamburg, Galway, Gothenburg, N.Y., Portland, Nürenberg
1996 SPELLBOUND AND THE WAY BACK, documentary
1995 MEETING MAI, short film with Mai Zetterling
ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES, documentary for SVT about the Portuguese writer
1994 SPELLBOUND, short film
1993 MARGUERITE DURAS, documentary
1992 SEE YOU TOMORROW, MARIO, feature film based on a short story by the Danish writer Grete Roulund
Theatrically released in Portugal, Sweden, Canada, Italy.
Awards: Arcachon – France, Figueira da Foz – Portugal, Huelva – Spain
1990 AN IMMORTAL STORY, documentary
Awards: The Etnographic Filmfestival in Paris 1991, Filmfestival of Valbonne, France 1992
1989 FINEBOYS, documentary for SVT about male models
1988 GLIMPSES OF LIGHT, documentary for SVT about aging musicians
1987 STIG CLAESSON and J. G. BALLARD, series of documentaries for SVT about writers
1986 JOURNEY TO ORION, short film based on a short story by J.G.Ballard
Awards: First Prize at the International Film Festival of Bilbao, Spain, 1987
1985 BARNUM, opera for Portuguese Television
HOT LINE, episode of the film
1984 WITH OTHER EYES, series of film chronicles about female film directors
1983 DISCOVERING PORTUGAL, documentary
1982 HOME, short film
MEMORIES FROM A VILLAGE, short film
1980 DINA AND DJANGO, feature film
Festival: Locarno 1982
1979 CAN’T IT BE EXTERMINATED?, series for RTP based on texts by Karl Valentin
1978 Three plays by F. X. Kroetz for RTP
1977 NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL, short film
1976 PEOPLE’S FIGHT, documentary about the Agrarian Reform in Portugal
Awards: 1st prize at the Oberhausen Filmfestival 1978
1975 DISAPPEARED, documentary series about young people
Other Films
as producer
2002 Welcome to Tomas and Jill, director: Henrik Georgsson
2004 Always on a Tuesday, director: Pil-Maria Gunnarson
2006 Keillers Park, director: Susanna Edwards
as editor a.o.
1979 Amor de Perdição, director: Manoel de Oliveira
1981 Wadi, director: Amos Gitai
1981 Babels Hus tv-serie, director: Jonas Cornell
1982 Varning för Jönssonligan, director: Jonas Cornell
1986 Moa, director: Anders Wahlgren
Stieg Trenter tv-serie, director Jonas Cornell
1988 Fordringsägare, director: Stefan Böhm
Theatre for radio SR
1988-Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Júlio Cortázar
THEATRE translation and direction in Portugal
Has introduced Scandinavian playwrights in Portugal: Lars Norén, Jon Fosse, Henning Mankell and Erland Josephson and Ingmar Bergman.
Directed the following plays:
2012 SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE by Ingmar Bergman
2011: About Love, by Lars Norén
2010: LA MUSICA, by Marguerite Duras
2009: CONTRACTIONS, by Mike Bartlett
2008: THE ANTILOPES, by Henning Mankell
2007: BLACK OUT, by José Maria Vieira Mendes at the National Theatre of Lisbon – considered best Play 2007.
2005 A PIECE OF THEATRE by Erland Josephson
2004 BETRAYAL and OLD TIMES by Harold Pinter
2002 SOMEONE WILL COME and AUTUMN DREAM by Jon Fosse
2000 THE NIGHT IS THE MOTHER OF THE DAY by Lars Norén
ART
Has studied art at AR.CO Portugal
Exhibitions:
Individual at:Teatro Municipal de Almada 2010
Individual in Konsthallen Kramfors Sweden 2013
Kollektiv Artweek at Svanö 2013
Kollektiv Kontoret Nybroviken 2013
Kollektiv Spring Exhibition Liljevalchs 2014
Individual Gallery Opus 14 in Lisbon april-may 2015
Participated in Nordingrå Konstrunda 2015
Participated in KKVHärnösands graphic exhibition in Gävle 2015