Director
Lone Scherfig
May 2, 1959 · Søborg, Danmark
Lone Scherfig (born May 2, 1959) is a Danish film director. She graduated Danish Film School in 1984, and began her career as a director with Kaj's fødselsdag "A Birthday Trip". She made her mark with the Dogme95-film, Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere, 2000), a romantic comedy which among its many international awards won the Silver Berlin Bear (Jury Prize) at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival. It is credited as the most profitable Scandinavian film to date. Most recently she's directed An Education (2009), based on an autobiographical article by British journalist Lynn Barber. The independent film was nominated for three of the 82nd Academy Awards.
Notable work
Often works with
Peter Gantzler
6 titles together
Italian for Beginners, Better Times, Just Like Home
Anders W. Berthelsen
5 titles together
Italian for Beginners, Better Times, Taxa
Ann Eleonora Jørgensen
5 titles together
Italian for Beginners, Just Like Home, On Our Own
Matthew Beard
3 titles together
One Day, An Education, The Riot Club
Amanda Fairbank-Hynes
3 titles together
One Day, An Education, Their Finest
Anette Støvelbæk
3 titles together
Italian for Beginners, Better Times, On Our Own
Full filmography · 21
The Movie Teller
Director
20236.5
The Idiots Who Started The Party
as Sig selv
2020
The Kindness of Strangers
Director and Writer
20196.3
Their Finest
Director
20176.6
A Serious Game
Writer
20165.5
The Riot Club
Director
20145.9
One Day
Director
20117.4
An Education
Director
20096.9
Just Like Home
Director and Writer
2007
Red Road
Writer
20066.5
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Director
20026.6
Italian for Beginners
Director
20006.4