A director of children’s films, he was born in Lillehammer, Norway in 1977 and studied directing at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, completing his degree in 2001 with the short film Punktert (Punctured). His feature film debut Bestevenner (Rafiki) premiered in the 2010 Generation section of the Berlinale. Both this film and his second feature, De tøffste gutta (The Tough Guys), screened at festivals around the world, won a number of awards and have been widely distributed. He aims to tell stories which are both entertaining and challenging and treat his young protagonists fairly and with great compassion. Los Bando is his third feature film.
Berlinale
