Maud Nycander

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Maud Nycander

Born September 28, 1960 · Järfälla, Stockholms län, Sweden (age 65)

Maud Hanna Bodil Nycander is a Swedish photographer/director/producer/writer. She begun her career as a still photographer and did several photo exhibitions and photo books. In the middle of the 90s she started to work with film and television.

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Älskade HusbyÄlskade Husby · 2020
Älskade Husby
2020
MovieDocumentary
Soledad, Mattias, Bahar, Facundo, and Josselin were born in 1976 and were the first generation of young people to grow up in Husby. Now, almost 30 years later, they too tell their stories.
The NunThe Nun · 2007
The Nun
7.82007
MovieDocumentary
After Marta had decided to become a nun at a young age, filmmaker Maud Nycander followed her and her family for ten years.
PalmePalme · 2012
Palme
7.62012
MovieDocumentary
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.
Sluten AvdelningSluten Avdelning · 2010
Sluten Avdelning
10.02010
MovieDocumentary
Maud Nycander has over one and a half years, filmed a psychiatric emergency ward at St. Göran's Hospital in Stockholm.
The Latin KingsThe Latin Kings · 2004
The Latin Kings
10.02004
MovieDocumentaryMusic
When the first album by the Latin Kings' was released in 1994, it created a sensation in the Swedish music world. Culture journalists claimed that The Latin Kings were the most important thing happening on the Swedish popular music scene since the birth of punk rockers of Ebba Grön.
Brev till paradisetBrev till paradiset · 1989
Brev till paradiset
7.01989
MovieDrama
Maria is a young and ambitious photographer. Her editor has sent her on a mission. To photograph premature born children.
Citizen ScheinCitizen Schein · 2017
Citizen Schein
6.02017
MovieDocumentary
Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.
The Nun – 25 Years in a ConventThe Nun – 25 Years in a Convent · 2025
The Nun – 25 Years in a Convent
2025
MovieDocumentary
Marta comes from a deeply devout Catholic family, they are nine siblings. After high school, she entered the strictest of all monastic orders, the Carmelite Order. Marta lives according to monastic rules that were instituted in the Middle Ages, she lives a life of prayer and silence, and never leaves the monastery. Seven times a year, she receives visits from her family; they meet in a visiting room separated by bars. Today, Marta is 45 years old and has lived her entire adult life in the convent. The siblings have chosen different paths in life, they live in very different places in the world. The film follows a family across three generations, who have all chosen to live with God at the center. A film about faith and existential questions.

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The Nun – 25 Years in a ConventThe Nun – 25 Years in a Convent · 2025
The Nun – 25 Years in a Convent
2025
MovieDocumentary
Marta comes from a deeply devout Catholic family, they are nine siblings. After high school, she entered the strictest of all monastic orders, the Carmelite Order. Marta lives according to monastic rules that were instituted in the Middle Ages, she lives a life of prayer and silence, and never leaves the monastery. Seven times a year, she receives visits from her family; they meet in a visiting room separated by bars. Today, Marta is 45 years old and has lived her entire adult life in the convent. The siblings have chosen different paths in life, they live in very different places in the world. The film follows a family across three generations, who have all chosen to live with God at the center. A film about faith and existential questions.

Director

Love & DivorceLove & Divorce · 2022
Love & Divorce
6.52022
MovieDocumentary
At the beginning of the 2000s, Maud Nycander made a film about the couple Eva and Johan, two young people who fell head over heels in love and had a child within a year of meeting. As Maud now comes back to them, they have been together for 25 years, have three more or less grown-up children and are in the midst of a separation. Through charming flashbacks to the turbulent years with small children, shortly after the turn of the millennium and swooping down in the current relationship in transformation, a unique portrayal of life’s great undertakings – life-long love – arises. But how do you go on with life without your better half? How will the kids react and can a separation be the only way for love to survive?

Director