Fredrik Gertten is an award-winning Swedish director and journalist. Many of his films like BECOMING ZLATAN (2016), BIKES VS. CARS (2015), BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS (2012) and BANANAS! (2009) were shown in more than 100 countries and on leading film festivals. In 1994, Fredrik Gertten founded the production company WG Film. Before that, he worked as foreign correspondent and columnist for radio, television and daily newspapers in Africa, Latin America and Europe. Today, he not only directs, but also produces films at WG Film, which has become one of the biggest Swedish production companies known for its local stories with global impact. In 2017, Gertten received an honorary doctorate from the faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Malmö for his work as a documentary filmmaker. In 2019 he won the Award of the Open Eyes Youth Jury at our festival for PUSH.

True Blue (1998), The Death of a Working Man’s Newspaper (2001), An Ordinary Family (2005), The Socialist, the Architect and the Twisted Tower (2005), BANANAS!* (2009), Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011), Bikes vs. Cars (2015), Becoming Zlatan (2016), PUSH – Für das Grundrecht auf Wohnen (2019), Breaking Social (2023)