Tora Mårtens
Directing
Biography
Tora Mårtens was born in Stockholm. She has a background as a still photographer and her work has been widely published in various magazines and newspapers and displayed in several museums and galleries. Tora graduated from Dramatiska institutet in 2007. She directed and produced the documentary Tommy in Cuba in 2007. Tora was recently awarded the "Boundless Media Contest Prize" in France for her film Dolce Vita with Bacon.
Known For
In 2010 Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos took part in the biggest international Street Dance Competition, Juste Debout in Paris. It was the first time ever two women became World Champions in Hip Hop. This film depicts their love of dance, each other and about friendship put to the test. About desires, yearning and finding the right path in life.
Martha & Niki
Josefine, 16, lives a relaxed and fluttering life on a sailing boat together with her dad. It's the two against the world and Josefine likes to have her dad for herself. When her dad meets a woman, Josefine's life threatens. He wants to stay, but Josefine wants to the sea ...
Josefines himmel
A Berlinale award nominated short documentary.
Tommy
73-year-old Lina Merceis lives in a two-room flat in Rio de Janeiro. She works as a telephone operator and after she gets off work she enjoys life and entertains herself with one of her younger lovers. She has chosen to live a single life and rejects the idea of having to take care of some unrefined man.
Bye bye c'est fini
Rich and elegant storytelling characterizes this emotional film about the turbulent relationship between two Colombian-born brothers who come together when one decides to confront his alcoholism.
Colombianos
Anders and Maria never dared to believe in love, until they met one another. Life, which had been filled with tragedy, abuse and sleeping rough, suddenly had a meaning. This film recounts the wedding of the couple and their journey to find hope through love.
For Maria
Taxi Sister is a documentary about Boury, a female taxi driver in Dakar, Senegal. As a woman behind the wheel she leads a busy life filled with everyday drama, and constantly grapples with society’s view and expectations on women. The film is based on the Taxi Sister project, which was started by the Senegalese state in 2007 with the aim of encouraging female entrepreneurs. Ten women were offered the opportunity to get a drivers license and buy a car on credit. Today there are fifteen women taxi drivers in Dakar, which is nothing compared to the fifteen thousand male taxi drivers.
Taxi Sister
Includes 12 shorts directed by young female artists, directors and feminists to create "12 propositions to rethink pornography".