Mia Engberg is a filmmaker and author based in Stockholm. She has directed and produced a number of films ranging from cinema direct documentaries about gay skinheads and straight edge vegans to poetic feature films exploring autofiction and the notion of time and passion. She was the curator and producer of the project
Dirty Diaries – 12 shorts of feminist porn that gained worldwide attention and is considered a milestone in queer feminist film history.
The Belleville trilogy: Belleville Baby, Lucky One and Hypermoon tells a story of love that ranges over 30 years and explores the aesthetics of visual silence, a cinematic language approaching silence and darkness. The films have won a number of international awards among others Dokufest Grand Prix, Eurimages Audentia Award, Prix Sauvage de Paris and Guldbagge Award. There is also a fourth secret part to the trilogy; Secrets of the Sun, which is an experimental feature with no image.
Mia Engberg is the author of three books; Aesthetics of absence, The Visual Silence and Darkness as material. She is one of the founders of production company Story and she is the bass player in legendary ska-band Vagina Grande.
Filmography
2023 Hypermoon, Secrets of the Sun
2019 Lucky One
2013 Belleville Baby
2009 Come Together / Dirty Diaries
2005 165 Hässelby
2002 Bitch & Butch
2001 Selma & Sofie
1999 California über alles
1999 Manhood
1998 Love in Buddha’s kitchen
1997 Kött är mord
1997 The Stars We Are
1996 Parkside Girls
1994 Les enfants du square