Frederikke Aspöck

Frederikke Aspöck is a Danish film director. She is a granddaughter of Godfred Hartmann.

She graduated in Set Design from the Wimbledon School of Art in London, then in 2004 obtained a master's degree in filmmaking from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While studying in NY, she wrote and directed four short films: Footsteps (1999), The Browns (2000), Lion-Tamer (2001), and Happy Now (2004), her thesis at Tisch. It brought her international recognition by winning the First Prize Cinéfondation at Cannes Film Festival.

Selected filmography Happy Now — short, 2004; First Prize Cinéfondation in Cannes; Sheep — short, 2008; Moving on (short, 2011); Out of Bounds — debut feature, 2012; special screening in Cannes and won the Grand Prize at the Marrakech Film Festival; Rosita (feature, 2015) — Best Director at the Moscow Film Festival; Out of Tune — feature, 2019; selected for both Rotterdam and Göteborg Film Festival; Empire — feature, 2023; Nordic Council Film Prize.