About the director:

Axel Petersén, visual artist and filmmaker, was born in 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied at the The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm; he also studied film at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.

He has made several acclaimed short films and video installations. His short film “The Tracks of My Tears 2” (2011) premiered at the Horizons section of the Venice International Film Festival (Italy). A. Petersén‘s debut feature film “Avalon” premiered in Toronto International Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI prize for first best feature, earning A. Petersén a title of the most promising new voice in Swedish filmmaking.