Johan Jonason

Birth : , Stockholm, Sweden

History

Johan Jonason is a Swedish director and scriptwriter. He started making films while studying Fine Art in London. In 2003 his short film Terrible Boy won the prestigious award 1 km film at Stockholm International Film Festival and was also nominated for the annual Swedish Film Award.

Movies

The Stick
An applicant. A jury. The most prestigious film school. An admission test where you balance a stick on your finger.
The Square
Journalist
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
De andra barnen
Dad
A 10-year-old girl discovers that her privileged life may have something to do with the reason she doesn’t have any siblings.
Grand Piano Legend
If you are going to be really good at something, you need to start early. If you are a piano player too.
Grand Piano Legend
Writer
If you are going to be really good at something, you need to start early. If you are a piano player too.
Grand Piano Legend
Director
If you are going to be really good at something, you need to start early. If you are a piano player too.
Conquering China
Himself
A Swedish singer trades Europe for China. Like a blonde nephew of Bryan Ferry, he enters the burgeoning music scene in Shanghai, where electronic dance music dominates. But is this new land of opportunity ready for his soul-searching, tormented voice? Is music really such a universal language?
Conquering China
Writer
A Swedish singer trades Europe for China. Like a blonde nephew of Bryan Ferry, he enters the burgeoning music scene in Shanghai, where electronic dance music dominates. But is this new land of opportunity ready for his soul-searching, tormented voice? Is music really such a universal language?
Conquering China
Director
A Swedish singer trades Europe for China. Like a blonde nephew of Bryan Ferry, he enters the burgeoning music scene in Shanghai, where electronic dance music dominates. But is this new land of opportunity ready for his soul-searching, tormented voice? Is music really such a universal language?
Hotel
Svante
Erika is mentally bruised and starts group therapy with people seeking absolute anonymity.
Status Quo
Rickard
The Midnight Sun blurs the line between night and day. For part of the year, living close to the Arctic Circle means having more hours of the day to spend bonding with others. Though this, in combination with a lack of things to do, breeds creativity in some folks, others might arguably have too much time on their hands. The concept of status quo, i.e. nothing has changed, has seldom been more suitable.
Josefines himmel
Johan
Josefine, 16, lives a relaxed and fluttering life on a sailing boat together with her dad. It's the two against the world and Josefine likes to have her dad for herself. When her dad meets a woman, Josefine's life threatens. He wants to stay, but Josefine wants to the sea ...
Dance Music Now
Writer
A neurotic recording session releases emotional turmoil.
Dance Music Now
Director
A neurotic recording session releases emotional turmoil.
Dance Music Now
Singer
A neurotic recording session releases emotional turmoil.
Play
In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.
Behandlingen
Director
Guidance is a film about ordinary people in extraordinary situations.