From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lone Scherfig (born May 2, 1959) is a Danish film director. She graduated Danish Film School in 1984, and began her career as a director with Kaj's fødselsdag "A Birthday Trip". She made her mark with the Dogme95-film, Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere, 2000), a romantic comedy which among its many international awards won the Silver Berlin Bear (Jury Prize) at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival. It is credited as the most profitable Scandinavian film to date. Most recently she's directed An Education (2009), based on an autobiographical article by British journalist Lynn Barber. The independent film was nominated for three of the 82nd Academy Awards.

Filmography

• Det danske filmmirakel
• Insider — Sig selv
• Bullshit — Executive Producer
• 2024The Girl with the Needle — Executive Producer
• Dag & Nacht — Original Series Creator, Executive Producer
• 2023The Movie Teller — Director
• The Shift — Creator, Idea, Writer, Script, Executive Producer, Director
• 2020The Day We Died — Executive Producer
• 2020The Idiots Who Started The Party — Sig selv
• 2019The Kindness of Strangers — Executive Producer, Director, Writer
• 2018Backstabbing for Beginners — Executive Producer
• 2017Their Finest — Director
• 2016A Serious Game — Writer
• The Astronaut Wives Club — Director
• Ulla Terkelsen i Italien — Sig selv
• 2014The Riot Club — Director
• 2011One Day — Director
• 2010Donkeys — Characters
• 2009An Education — Director
• 2007Just Like Home — Director, Writer
• 2006Red Road — Writer
• 2005Jeg er bare den logerende — Director, Writer
• Better Times — Director
• 2002Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself — Director, Screenplay
• 2000Italian for Beginners — Director, Screenplay
• Morten Korch - Ved stillebækken — Writer, Director
• 1998On Our Own — Director, Writer
• Taxa — Writer, Director
• Flemming og Berit — Creator
• 1990The Birthday Trip — Director
• 1984Den onde cirkel — Director
• Honeytrap — Director, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2017Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman — Self
• 2000FreeDogme — herself