Nikolai Waldman

Movies

Pleasure
Colorist
19-year-old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
Vi är barn av vår tid - En film om Nationalteatern
Colorist
50 years ago the Swedish progressive indie group Nationalteatern was founded. They were young, radical and wanted to change the world through youth theater and rock music.
Grab them
Colorist
Sally, 60, lived peacefully, yearning for happiness, when Donald Trump was elected President. Sally’s life is turned upside down because of her ressemblance to him. Taken for Trump by some, she leads a complicated daily life: her search for love seems very compromised, barring an unexpected meeting …
438 Days
Colorist
On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.
The Family Farm
Colorist
A daughter moves from the family farm and the countryside as a nineteen year old. Twenty years later her aging parents still live and work on the farm. The daughter/director tells a story about the ambivalence of leaving a place that symbolises both security and stagnation. A film about the choices in life, mortality and the symbiosis between people and places.
Ten Meter Tower
Colorist
10 Meter Tower is a short film taking place in a swimming pool with 6 cameras aimed at the tallest diving tower. All focus is on the 43 people between 9 and 78 years old. They have one thing in common, this is the first time in their lives they climb up to the platform to make the decision whether to jump or not. The situation itself highlights a dilemma: to weigh the instinctive fear of taking the step out against the humiliation of having to climb down.
Play
Colorist
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.
For din skyld
Colorist
Torill has not seen her mother in fifty years. Daughter Gro tries in the best sense to reunite her mother and grandmother. We follow mother and daughter on a journey where not everything goes as planned.