Lisa Siwe is an award-winning director whose emotionally powerful storytelling has captivated audiences around the world.

Most recently, she directed the Netflix series Genombrottet / The Breakthrough, a restrained yet deeply moving crime drama that reached a vast global audience and was watched by millions worldwide. Genombrottet was praised by critics both in Sweden and internationally. The Guardian described the series as “the best Scandi noir in years” and stated that it “is sensitive, complex and highly emotional” and “excels as a human story.”

In 2011, she served as one of the directors for the first season of the global sensation TV series Bron / The Bridge. As conceptual director of Modus seasons 1 and 2 (2015–2017), Siwe helped create a major TV4 hit with over a million viewers.

She has since directed globally recognized series in the UK and the US, including Temple (2019), Tell Me Your Secrets (2021), and Red Rose (2022).

Her feature debut, I taket lyser stjärnorna / Glowing Stars (2009), became both a critical and commercial success and earned Siwe the Guldbagge Award for Best Director. The film was also nominated at the Berlin International Film Festival for Generation Kplus and won the Student Choice Award in Toronto, the Don Quijote Award in Kristiansand, the Kinder & Jugend Filmfest Prize in Hamburg, and Göteborg’s Grand Film Prize.