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Johannes Nyholm (born October 28, 1974), is a Swedish film director, screenwriter och artist. He has also worked as cinematographer, editor and producer on many of his films.

Nyholm, raised in Lund, Sweden, has studied film- and art history at the Universities of Lund and Copenhagen and animation at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Eksjö. He started his professional career directing music videos and then went on to write and direct short films and features. His films have premiered at numerous international film festivals, such as The Cannes Film Festival, The Sundance Film Festival, The Toronto International Film Festival and been awarded numerous prizes.

Feature Films
The feature film debut The Giant (2016) depicts the severely malformed and autistic petanque player Rikard, who struggles to reconnect with his mother. The film premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival  followed by the European premiere at The San Sebastian Film Festival  , where it was awarded the Jury Prize. It won several additional international awards as well as three swedish Guldbagge Awards, for best film, best screenplay and best mask / makeup. For The Giant Nyholm was nominated for Swedish newspaper DN's Cultural Award in 2017.

Koko-di Koko-da (2019) is a surrealistic nightmare vision about breakup and grief. As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick. The film premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2019    and has since received numerous awards, including Fantasia International Film Festival's Camera Lucida Award. The film premiered in Swedish theaters in the autumn of 2019 and has since been sold to thirteen countries. It opened in theaters in the US      and UK      in the fall of 2020.

Short Films
Nyholm's short films often reside in a borderland between art and film and have consequently been shown both at film festivals, and art galleries. Most of the films have also been shown on The Swedish National Television, SVT.

Puppetboy is a pseudo-documentary where Nyholm himself plays the role of an animator, obsessed with his own creation, the clay figure Puppetboy. The Tale of little Puppetboy is an animated series in many episodes featuring this clay character. Both films won a lot of international awards. The Tale of little Puppetboy premiered at The Film Festival in Cannes in 2008, in the section Directors' Fortnight. Since then it has won almost twenty international awards          and was nominated to Cartoon d'Or in 2010. Puppetboy was awarded both the Jury Prize and the Audience Prize at The International Short Film Festival in Hamburg in 2008 and the main award at International Short Film Festival Winterthur , was nominated for the Swedish award Guldbagge and won Swedish Television's Award for newcomer of the year. Puppetboy was also screened at galleries, f.x The Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

Dreams from the Woods is a dark shadow play about love and sorrow with featuring music by Little Dragon. It premiered at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes in 2009 and was later nominated for a Swedish Guldbagge.

Las Palmas is featuring Nyholm's one year old daughter, dressed up as a middle aged woman, trashing a bar in Las Palmas. The film premiered at The Gothenburg Film Festival in 2011, where it won both the main short film award, Startsladden, as well as the audience award. Shortly after, it became a world sensation when the trailer for the film on Youtube, called "Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas", was shown on The Jay Leno Show and turned viral  with over 20 million views on Youtube. The film had it's international premiere at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, followed by a lot of other festivals and was rewarded some 20 international awards, and a Guldbagge for best Swedish short film.

Filmography

 * 1996 - Små Stunder av Lycka (short film)
 * 1997 - Pop-Up (short film)
 * 1998 - Blaren (short film)
 * 2000 - Tommys System (short film, documentary)
 * 2008 - Dockpojken (short film)
 * 2008 - The Tale of Little Puppetboy (short film)
 * 2009 - Dreams from the Woods (short film)
 * 2011 - Las Palmas (short film)
 * 2016 - The Giant
 * 2019 - Koko-di Koko-da

Musikvideos
2003


 * The Knife - Heartbeats
 * Sagor & Swing - Alla sagor har ett slut
 * Silverbullit - Star


 * The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Big Time
 * The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Heading for a breakdown
 * The Plan - Young and Armed
 * Gyllene Tider - Tuffa tider / På en sten, vid en sjö I en skog
 * Kristofer Åström - The Wild
 * Alf - Gröna Linjen
 * Melpo Mene - Hello Benjamin
 * Melpo Mene - Good with the Mothers
 * Hello Goodbye - Return to Sender


 * The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Beleive I've Found
 * Håkan Hellström - En Midsommarnattsdröm
 * The Hellacopters - I'm in the Band
 * Jenny Wilson - Let my Shoes Lead me Forward

2006


 * The Tallest Man on Earth - It will Follow the Rain
 * Dharma - Boom, Boom
 * Gemene man - In med apan ut med dig


 * Little Dragon - Twice

Externa länkar

 * official homepage
 * Johannes Nyholm on IMDb
 * https://www.salomonssonagency.se/johannes-nyholm/