Kristian Lidegaard directing on location in a forest

Film director & writer · Copenhagen

Kristian
Lidegaard

I make films about the moment a story becomes reality.

The work

Images do not simply show us the world. They frame it, distort it and sometimes make it real. My work explores the people caught inside that process.

Current feature · Pre-production 2026

Online found-footage horror

The Evil Eye

Everything we see is what the evil wants to show us.

Oliver secretly films and infiltrates the life of Lucas, a successful young swimmer who bullied him as a child. As his recordings grow more disturbing, the observer becomes the author of the reality he claims merely to document.

Directed by Kristian Lidegaard
Written by Kristian Lidegaard & Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen
Produced by Maria Møller Kjeldgaard · Manna Film
Selected for Nordic Genre Lab 2026

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AN_LEITH · 22:14:03You gonna do an evil eye?

BEP2 · 22:14:18What the fuck guys? Is this real?

OLNON_2011 · 22:14:29What is “real”?

AN_LEITH · 22:15:04Amateur is the best. More authentic.

▸ secure circle established · no logs

A fictional hidden forum built as a working screen prop for the film. The interface is part of the story: the audience sees only what its author chooses to record and share.

Open interactive prop ↗

History is never over.

Feature in development · Thisted, 1696

The possession case that made reality negotiable.

In late seventeenth-century Thisted, a group of women appeared to be possessed. Their bodies became evidence, a priest became an authority, and an entire town had to decide what — and whom — to believe. A historical film about performance, power and the social production of truth.

Selected work

Full CV →
2019Frederik IXTV documentary · Director
2017Songs in the SunFeature · Director & writer
2016SombraShort · Director & writer
2015Jeanne d’ArcShort · Director & writer
2014EmmafilmemmaShort · Director & writer
Portrait of Kristian Lidegaard

About

I am a Danish director and writer interested in how performance, fear and belief decide what a group of people ends up calling real.

I trained as a director at Super16. My films include Songs in the Sun, Sombra, Jeanne d’Arc and the TV documentary Frederik IX.

Alongside filmmaking, I study history and the societal implications of AI. Different fields, same question: how do stories — true, false and everything in between — shape what people actually do?

Contact · Copenhagen

Let’s make something real.

kristiansejrbo@gmail.com

For directing, development, international collaboration and conversations about fiction rooted in contested reality.