Mia Engberg

Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Editor

France / Sweden

Details

>Birth :26 September 1970 (Stockholm, Sweden)
>Age :55 years
>Career :29 years

Mia Engberg is a filmmaker and researcher based in Stockholm. She has directed numerous documentaries, fiction films, and experimental works, and was the producer of the feminist project Dirty Diaries – 12 short films of feminist pornography. Her film Belleville Baby premiered at the Berlinale in 2013 and received a Guldbagge the same year. Her previous feature film, Hypermoon, was made in 2023 and won the Prix Sauvage at the L’Europe autour de l’Europe festival in 2024.

Filmography (2) +

🎨 Feature films (2)

2023 – Hypermoon Role : Director, Writer, Editor
Synopsis : Mia, the director, receives life-altering news. She takes on a journey through her own history. We follow the lonely wanderings of an astronaut through space and the repentance of an aging gangster, Vincent, who, while retiring from his violent life, makes a find in his basement. An intimate, poetic story about memory and the fragility of existence.

Synopsis : Mia, the director, receives life-altering news. She takes on a journey through her own history. We follow the lonely wanderings of an astronaut through space and the repentance of an aging gangster, Vincent, who, while retiring from his violent life, makes a find in his basement. An intimate, poetic story about memory and the fragility of existence.
2013 – Belleville Baby Role : Director
Synopsis : A phone call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past. He tells her he has been in prison for many years and asks to hear her memories from their time together. She remembers the spring when they met in Paris, the riots, the Vespa and the cat named Baby. A film about love, time and things that got lost along the way.

Synopsis : A phone call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past. He tells her he has been in prison for many years and asks to hear her memories from their time together. She remembers the spring when they met in Paris, the riots, the Vespa and the cat named Baby. A film about love, time and things that got lost along the way.

Citations (2) +

"During the most difficult period, I watched Derek Jarman's Blue almost every day. Blue was his last film, a minimalist but grandiose film."
Mia Engberg

"But there was a time and an illness I wasn't sure I'd survive. And if that had been the case, I had in mind a film that would have boiled down to a black screen, because that's something I would have had time to do, a requiem of my own, with just voices. But, lo and behold, I was given more time. And with that good news came back the love of cinema, but also the joy of filling the screen with images of all sizes, rummaging around in the archives I'd filmed in my life."
Mia Enberg - Cineuropa