Isabella Eklöf
Isabella Eklöf (born 10 February 1978) is a Swedish screenwriter and film director.
Isabella Eklöf
- Name
- Isabella Eklöf
- Born
- 10 February 1978
- Birthplace
- Östra Ryds landskommun, Stockholms län, Sweden
- Occupation
- Screenwriter film director
- Education
- National Film School of Denmark
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Honours
- The Carl Theodor Dreyer Prize · Robert Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Isabella Eklöf (born 10 February 1978) is a Swedish screenwriter and film director.
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Isabella Eklöf (born 1978) is a Swedish actor, actress and director, among other activities. The actor was born in Östra Ryd. Isabella Eklöf studied at National Film School of Denmark. The actor received Robert Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and The Carl Theodor Dreyer Prize.
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• Name — Isabella Eklöf • Born — 10 February 1978 • Birthplace — Östra Ryds landskommun, Stockholms län, Sweden • Occupation — Screenwriter film director • Education — National Film School of Denmark
Education
Education
Eklöf attended the National Film School of Denmark.
Career
Career
She served on the crew as a "runner" for the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In. Eklöf co-wrote the 2018 Swedish film Border with director Ali Abbasi; together they expanded on the source material, a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist. For Border, Eklöf, Abbasi and Lindqvist were nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay; they were also nominated for the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter. She also wrote and directed the 2018 Danish film Holiday, for which she won the New Wave Best Picture and New Wave Best Director awards at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas; Holiday went on to win four Bodil Awards, including Best Danish Film.
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Director — Editor — Notes • 2013 — Dybvaaaaad! — 8 episodes (season 3) • 2021 — Servant — 2 episodes (season 2) • 2022–2024 — Industry — 8 episodes (seasons 2–3) — rowspan="2" • 2025 — The Death of Bunny Munro — 6 episodes (miniseries)
Film
• Year — Title — Director — Writer — Editor — Notes • 2009 — Willkommen in Barbaristan — Short film • 2011 — Notes from Underground (short film) • 2018 — Holiday — Debut feature; co-written with Johanne Algren • Border — Co-written with Ali Abbasi and John Ajvide Lindqvist • 2023 — Kalak (film) — Co-written with Kim Leine and Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen
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Isabella Eklöf received The Carl Theodor Dreyer Prize and Robert Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Awards and nominations
• Year — Award — Category — Nominated work — Result • 2018 — Fantastic Fest — Award for New Wave Best Picture — Holiday — rowspan="2" • Award for New Wave Best Director • European Film Awards — Best Screenwriter — Border • 2019 — Guldbagge Awards — Best Screenplay • 2023 — British Academy Cymru Awards — Best Director: Fiction — Industry
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- 1.Sveriges släktforskarförbund. Sveriges dödbok 1901–2013 Swedish death index 1901-2013. 2014. 9789187676642.
- 2.Simon, Alissa. Film Review: 'Border'. Variety. 2 March 2019.
- 3.Swedish Film Institute. Let the Right One In (2008).
- 4.Guldbaggen.se. Nominerade 2018. 10 January 2019.
- 5.European Film Academy. The 31st European Film Awards. 44.
- 6.Fantastic Fest. Fantastic Fest 2018 Announces The Fantastic Fest Awards. 25 September 2018.
- 7.Wind-Friis, Lea. Voldtægtsfilm af debutant blev den store vinder til Bodil-festen. Politiken. 2 March 2019.
- 8.Erbland, Kate. 'Holiday' Trailer: Isabella Eklof's Daring Sundance Drama Gets a Pulsating New Look. IndieWire. 1 January 2019.
- 9.Romney, Jonathan. 'Kalak': San Sebastian Review. Screen Daily. 28 September 2023.
- 10.Szalai, Georg. How the Female Gaze, David Lynch and 'Natural Born Killers' Play Into Sky's Nick Cave Novel Adaptation 'Bunny Munro' With Matt Smith. The Hollywood Reporter. 14 October 2025.
- 11.BAFTA Cymru Awards 2023. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. September 6, 2023.
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