IN A BETTER WORLD

Born in Denmark in 1960, she graduated from Denmark’s National Film School in 1987. She was a Danish Academy Award semi-finalist and award winner at the Munich Film School Festival for her graduation film. Bier’s feature film debut, the Swedish-Danish coproduction Freud Leaves Home,was the recipient of international plaudits, as was her Danish-Swedish-Portuguese Family Matters; her next Swedish film, Like It Never Was Before, received the Critics’ Award at Montreal. Following her Danish feature The One and Only, a critics’ favorite which brought in nearly a million admissions in Denmark alone, her reputation as an established filmmaker excelled. Two box-office hits followed: the Dogme film Open Hearts selected for San Sebastian, Sundance, and Toronto, where it received Special Mention; and Brothers, recipient of the Audience Award at Sundance and Best Actor and Best Actress awards at San Sebastian. The Oscar-nominated film After the Wedding and the US-produced Things We Lost in the Fire, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro, were both critical and box office successes. Her latest film, In a Better World, which has received excellent reviews in international and domestic media, has been selected as the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 83rd Academy Awards.