JENIFER MALMQVIST

"Daughters" director.

Screenwriting film director, educated at the Directing Program at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Works with both documentary and fiction. Many of her films have been shown successfully at festivals around the world. On Suffocation (2013) had a world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival where earlier I Fred (Peace Talk, 2007) and Födelsedag (Birthday, 2010) were shown. The short documentary Angel Bängel about Jenifer's grandmother with Alzheimer’s was broadcast on SVT in 2004. In August 2009, she received the Bo Widerberg Scholarship. Her films have been called realistic with elements of everyday surrealism and absurdism. She is currently working on the script for her first feature film and a documentary.
On Suffocation won the Guldbagge Award for best Swedish short film in 2014.