Gustav Wärn
Directing
Biography
Gustav Wärn (born May 15, 2001) is a Swedish writer and director. A self-taught filmmaker since the age of 15, Gustav honed his craft independently before furthering his education at Prague Film School in the Czech Republic. With a diverse filmography, he has directed 15 short films to date, including notable works such as 'Stella By Starlight' (2025), Do You See When Things Change (2025), 'Existence, Fragmented' (2024), 'Spread Yo Legs' (2024), 'My Grandmother Passed Away Last Night' (2023), and more. His films often explore themes of self-discovery, longing, faith and doubt, interpersonal relationships, and loneliness. Gustav draws inspiration from directors like Paul Thomas Anderson, Roy Andersson, Wes Anderson, and Ruben Östlund, whose work has influenced his own storytelling approach. His credits further include a range of work as producer and editor.
Known For
On Stella’s 29th birthday, four days before her band is set to embark on a career-altering tour, she learns that it is canceled. As she scrambles to salvage the tour and rally her bandmates, tensions rise, threatening not just the tour but the band's future.
Stella by Starlight
When a young, naive, film student finds out that her parents might be getting a divorce, she desperately sets out to save their marriage in time for the school’s film premiere.
Replay
An ex-couple meets up at a cafe 6 months after their break-up, in an attempt to be friends. But, with so many hidden emotions and expectations bubbling under the surface of their collected facades, it is just a matter of time before they are back where they left off.
Same Coin
The film follows a man’s desperate trek down a river as he is continually hindered by strange figures trying to convince him to turn around or stop.
Face the Music
As summer turns into fall and fall turns to winter, two people with an unresolved connection quietly debate whether to reach out or move on, before winter turns to spring.
Do You See When Things Change?
A man finds himself lost, walking the empty streets of an unnamed city, with a fading mindscape. He has lost something, but what? It's got something to do with a writer that supposedly killed himself a couple of months back; It's got something to do with a Peter Stillman.
The Rain
A man approaches a mysterious woman at a pier, and tries to learn more about her; she does not intend to let him.
A film Noir
An anxious writer struggles with his inability to write while hopelessly trying to counteract his writer's block with various methods.
Write
An untalented police officer harbours a secret dream of one day becoming a rapper. When he one day pulls over a famous British rap artist who is visiting the country to mix his latest album he sees the ticket to his dream, and begs for the rapper to listen to his raps. When met with indifference, the power of authority in his role suddenly becomes tempting, and things escalate quickly.
Spread Yo Legs
Two men who share an apartment, with vastly different outlooks on life, are pushed further and further away from each other, as one of them slowly approaches an existential crisis, and the other seems to slowly give up hope for change.
Existence, Fragmented
Three absurd, seemingly unrelated stories each tell a different tale about people processing grief, and about the people around to witness it.
My Grandmother Passed Away Last Night
A young man debates whether or not he should approach the girl sitting at the other end of the café he is reading at.
Because It's Summer
A confused and paranoid man wakes up on the side of a city street with no recollection of his recent yesterdays, and desperately tries to make it back home to his apartment on the other side of town, while trying to fight of the evils of the ordinary world which he experiences through a drug induced PTSD.
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A mysterious young man enters a taxi cab late at night, convinced that he will commit a hideous crime at journey's end, but his driver seems to have a different opinion on the matter. Could a discussion between two strangers change everything?