Maud Nycander

Love & Divorce (2022)

At the beginning of the 2000s, Maud Nycander made a film about the couple Eva and Johan, two young people who fell head over heels in love and had a child within a year of meeting. As Maud now comes back to them, they have been together for 25 years, have ...

Äntligen måndag (2021)

The film is a tribute to the everyday heroes at Danderyd's hospital: the caretakers, the receptionists, the garbage collectors, the bed transporters - A story about hard work, job satisfaction and a seagull that has broken its leg. ...

Citizen Schein (2017)

Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a ...

Road's End (2013)

Road's End is the story of Daina who lives in Latgale in Eastern Latvia, close by the Russian border. She lives two miles from the nearest road, with no electricity or running water. The roof has collapsed. She is completely dependent upon herself in order ...

Go Straight Home (2013)

Reba is 14 and she lives with her family in Dhaka. Often on her way to school she is being followed or harassed by groups of boys who shout after her. It's part of everyday life in Bangladesh for young girls. In Reba's school class four girls have already ...

Sluten Avdelning (2010)

Maud Nycander has over one and a half years, filmed a psychiatric emergency ward at St. Göran's Hospital in Stockholm. ...

Fotografen från Riga (2009)

Konstnärinnan på avd. 22 (2009)

Ester Henning (1887-1985) was a Swedish sculptor and artist who spent 60 years of her life in mental hospitals. She was poor, in bad health mentally unstable and spent only four years in school before she had to earn a living. But from her closed world she ...

The Nun (2007)

After Marta had decided to become a nun at a young age, filmmaker Maud Nycander followed her and her family for ten years. ...

Rum för sjuka själar (2006)

A tour of the Swedish mental health history, via early psychiatry, lobotomy to the outpatient care of today. Caregivers, patients, doctors and experts present their views and opinions, mixed with archive footage. A reflection on a difficult and uncertain s ...

Room in Between (2005)

A contemporary depiction of the "big city" based on black and white images in slow motion. ...

The Latin Kings (2004)

When the first album by the Latin Kings' was released in 1994, it created a sensation in the Swedish music world. Culture journalists claimed that The Latin Kings were the most important thing happening on the Swedish popular music scene since the birth of ...

Sluten Avdelning (2010)

Maud Nycander has over one and a half years, filmed a psychiatric emergency ward at St. Göran's Hospital in Stockholm. ...

Brev till paradiset (1989)

Maria is a young and ambitious photographer. Her editor has sent her on a mission. To photograph premature born children. ...