Nina Grünfeld

Nina Frederikke Grünfeld (born July 27, 1966) is a Norwegian film director and author, and the former head of the Norwegian Film Directors (NFR) trade union.

Career Grünfeld studied mass communication, Eastern European studies, film, and TV in Oslo, and she has a bachelor's degree in film directing from the Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art in Stockholm. She is a professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. She was previously head of research and development at the Westerdals School of Communication. Grünfeld has held board positions in a number of art and cultural institutions. She owns and runs the film production company Gründer Film in Oslo. The profit from sales went to combating Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and extremism.

Two of Grünfeld's films are documentaries about her father, the psychiatrist Berthold Grünfeld. Her documentary film Ninas barn, which has also been published in book form, is about the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo during the Second World War. Her father was one of the children there. Nina Grünfeld is named after the manager Nina Hasvoll, who became like a mother to the children at the orphanage. In 2019, she worked on a short documentary about a Jewish prayer book that disappeared during the Second World War, and was then found by a Christian priest and handed over in 2015 to the Jewish Community in Oslo. In 2020, she published the book Frida – Min ukjente farmors krig (Frida: My Unknown Grandmother's War). The book is about her grandmother, who was a poor Jewish woman and prostitute in Czechoslovakia, and who was deported to Auschwitz and killed at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in April 1945.

Books Frida – Min ukjente farmors krig (Frida: My Unknown Grandmother's War; Aschehoug, 2020) Ninas barn – fortellingen om det jødiske barnehjemmet i Oslo (Nina's Children: The Story of the Jewish Children's Home in Oslo; Kagge Forlag, 2015)

Films and television productions 1993: Lang og tro tjeneste, short film 1996: Syndig sommer, short film 1996–2000: Familiesagaen de syv søstre, TV drama series (as director of one of several episodes) 1998: Mellom min mors ben, short film 2002: Mens du står utenfor, short film 2005: Grünfeld – ukjent opphav, documentary (TV2) 2008: Den døende doktoren, documentary (TV2) 2015: Ninas barn, documentary (NRK) 2018: Alexia vs. verden, TV and web series (TV3/Viafree) 2021: Cheiderboken, animated short documentary