Axel
Petersén

Axel Petersén, born 1979 in Stockholm, is a filmmaker who has made a variety of feature and short films, music videos, video and photography installations; exhibited in galleries and institutions, shown at filmfestivals and cinemas worldwide. He’s is educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles. Petersén’s feature THE REAL ESTATE, co-directed with Måns Månsson, had its world premiere in Competition at the Berlinale. Petersén’s feature debut, AVALON, premiered at Toronto, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize for Best First Feature. It went on to screen in Forum at the 2012 Berlinale. Axel has recently filmed his latest feature “Shame on Dry Land” a feature fiction story aswell as a documentary of Omar Sharif. Shame on dry land (Syndabocken) premiered at Toronto film festival and won nine awards at the Guldbagge filmfestival, among them for best director and script.