
Kim Ekberg
Directing
Biography
Kim Erland Alexander Ekberg is a Swedish filmmaker, photographer and screenwriter. He is educated at Academy Valand, Gothenburg.
Known For

Siblings Enzo and Magda have drifted apart, and in an attempt to reconnect, Magda invites her brother on a trip to Helsinki. Over a weekend, the sibling duo encounters a series of eccentric characters and confronts situations that necessitate conversations about life, art and existence. Memories blend with the present, and dreams and reality merge for the two travelers adrift in the atmospheric city of Helsinki.
XXL

10 Meter Tower is a short film taking place in a swimming pool with 6 cameras aimed at the tallest diving tower. All focus is on the 43 people between 9 and 78 years old. They have one thing in common, this is the first time in their lives they climb up to the platform to make the decision whether to jump or not. The situation itself highlights a dilemma: to weigh the instinctive fear of taking the step out against the humiliation of having to climb down.
Ten Meter Tower

Instead of finding a “proper” job, Alf, pushing 40, lives with his mum and drifts though Norrköping’s cultural scene. Chats & faces, routines & intuitions, local politics & everyday life – the intimate and the social, in black-and-white analogue images.
Doggerland

Elma, a young writer, gets dumped by her girlfriend. Along her path to recovery, she sets out on a spiritual, physical, and meta-physical odyssey throughout the Swedish countryside. She encounters a number of equally wandering souls, longing for some company on the roads, while the past, present and future of Sweden slowly unravels. —Sao Paulo Film Festival Catalogue
The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth
An elderly crime investigator has reached the end of her career. Shortly after stepping down, she encounters the Devil, who has appeared in the city and begun working as a police photographer. During a series of walks together, a warmth develops between them. Over the course of their conversations, the Devil reveals he needs her help to end his own existence.
Staubwelt
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Den Dansande Kroppen

A dive down to the collective subconscious, where the man's stinking corpse is broken down into nourishing soil from which we are born again and rise to the surface with a new feminine thinking and feeling and unimaginable perversions. An artful film with a sweet side, but also violent sex scenes and a perverse taste.
Who Will Fuck Daddy?

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Halla!
One day in a hand's life. Not much to handle.
Hand

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Skatepark

A truck driver and his daughter navigate rural life in the 60s while helping a struggling family, and decades later, a once-deceased child reappears in a hospital in Helsinki.
Skarpnabba

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En sommardag i Craiova

Kim has long wanted to make a film about his brother and his brother’s girlfriend – the former “Ex on the Beach” particpants Hampus and Olivia. But in the middle of recording they break up, the film is forced in completely different directions, and it instead turns into a poetic meta-narrative in which Kim’s dreamlike cinematic language tells the story of love and separtion.
2gether

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Pilgrimage to Halltjärn

A girl gets a video camera from her parents in a birthday present. She starts filming her family during their holidays in Hälsingland, Sweden.
Flickan med videokameran

A vacation house in a rural Swedish forest setting is observed by mysterious forces transforming into modern ghosts in city life. Shifting into forms of what we cannot yet deal with. Kaleidoscopic visuals following a constant shift between micro and macro perspective inform the form and narrative in this experimental hybrid art movie exploring film from a post-humanist perspective.
Weathering Heights

Marianne Carlsson who sent a letter to space, is visited by an alien ambassador, Kånoholts. She brings her guest along on a bus ride to the small village Kvarsebo where she grew up.
Kvarsebo

Kim Ekberg found a series of slides in an attic. The text was missing, so he wrote a new one based on information that was in his mind rather than on the internet and in books.
Karin Boye - Her life and her poems
A short about the life of plants.