Closing Night: La Contadora de Películas

DIRECTOR(S) BIOGRAPHYBorn in 1959 in Copenhagen, Danish film director Lone Scherfig graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1984. Her feature directorial debut was “The Birthday Trip” (1990). In 2000, Scherfig made her international breakthrough with the romantic comedy “Italian for Beginners” (2000). Scherfig followed up with her first English-language film, “Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself” (2002). She went on to direct “An Education” (2009), based on a screenplay by Nick Hornby and starring Cary Mulligan. The film received a nomination for British Film of the Year from the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, as well as three Academy Award nominations in 2010. Since then, she has directed the romantic drama “One Day” (2011) starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, the drama “The Riot Club” (2014), the World War II-set dramedy “Their Finest” (2017), and “The Kindness of Strangers” (2019) starring Zoe Cazan and Bill Nighy.