Ingvild Søderlind
Ingvild Søderlind (b. 1975) is a prizewinning director and scriptwriter from Norway. Her breakthrough short film Jenny premiered at the Berlinale in 2011, and her debut feature All Foreigners Keep their Curtains Closed (2020) is a humorous and poetic depiction of a young girl’s first experience with love, filmed in the suburbs surrounding Oslo, where the director herself grew up.
Søderlind has directed films with young, strong female leads, often challenging in the depiction of female sexuality and defying stereotypical conceptions. Søderlind has also made short films with her children as actors, depicting complex love between siblings with a dark undertone. Søderlind directs with awareness of social status and living conditions but portrayed with beauty and tenderness, often dreamy and subjective in its point of view.
