--- name: "Birgitte Stærmose" canonical: "https://film.one/person/birgitte-strmose" fi1m_id: "birgitte-strmose" imdb_id: "nm1122945" tmdb_id: 1018051 wikidata_id: "Q29045099" roles: ["Director"] born: "18 October 1963" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T20:54:58.741972+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Birgitte Stærmose ## Identity Birgitte Stærmose - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/birgitte-strmose - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** birgitte-strmose - **IMDb ID:** nm1122945 - **TMDB ID:** 1018051 - **Wikidata ID:** Q29045099 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitte_St%C3%A6rmose, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29045099, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1122945/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1018051 Director. Born 18 October 1963 in Bogense, Danmark. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 18 October 1963, Bogense, Danmark - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgitte_St%C3%A6rmose, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29045099, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1122945/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1018051 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Industry*](https://film.one/tv/industry.md) (76) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Birgitte Stærmose > Birgitte Stærmose is a director worth following, particularly when she works between documentary and fiction. Staged testimony and extended, intimate scenes make her work distinctive; *Industry* offers qualified pleasure, with office politics stronger than its excesses. In *Out of Love* (2009), Kosovo street children deliver staged monologues drawn from real interviews. Their testimony is being performed, and Stærmose makes that choice central to the film. *Afterwar* (2024) follows the same subjects into adulthood, again mixing documentary and fiction. This sustained interest in the people gives us more reason to follow her than the novelty of the method alone. *Room 304* (2011), her feature debut, established another strand: intersecting stories about intimacy, with extended scenes resembling chamber plays. Her recurring subjects are intimacy, forgiveness and human frailty, which suit a filmmaker willing to let a scene run. Her second feature, *Darling* (2017), takes place in the Royal Danish Ballet and was written by Kim Fupz Aakeson. He is a recurring collaborator, with three films together. We were drawn into *Industry* (2020) because the young bankers’ ambition keeps making the working day more difficult. The performances held our attention, and the office politics gave us enough reason to keep watching. Stærmose directed two episodes in 2022, within a series whose pleasures and problems cannot be credited to one director. We rate it as good television, with a firm reservation about the sex and excess when they crowd out the work. That qualification matters here: the series is most engaging when it watches people trying to get ahead, and less reliable when it seems to worry that this will not be entertainment enough. Television has not replaced the features: alongside work on *The Spanish Princess* (2019) and *The English Game* (2020), her credits include *Camino* (2023), which she directed and co-wrote. The return to her earlier subjects in *Afterwar* also makes it difficult to treat those international commissions as the destination of her career. We would start with *Industry* for its office politics, with some patience reserved for what happens outside working hours. ## Biography Birgitte Stærmose is a Danish film director and screenwriter. She studied film at the University of Copenhagen and received an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1997. Her feature debut *Room 304* (2011) premiered in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and won her the Best Director award at the Aubagne Film Festival in 2013. She has also directed the features *Darling* (2017) and *Camino* (2023), as well as episodes of the series *Norskov* (2015), *The Spanish Princess* (2019), *The English Game* (2020) and *Industry* (2022). Her short documentary *Out of Love* (2009) received a Special Mention at the Berlinale and a Robert award for Best Short Documentary. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, dfi.dk, kristeligt-dagblad.dk.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Industry* (2020), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md) ## Complete filmography (15) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Afterwar* (2024), Director, Writer, Executive Producer - *Camino* (2023), as Regitze's mother · Director, Writer, Executive Producer - *Industry* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md) - *The Good Traitor* (2020), Script Consultant - *The English Game* (2020), series, Director - *The Spanish Princess* (2019), series, Director - *Darling* (2017), Director, Story - *Norskov* (2015), series, Director - *The Idealist* (2015), Writer - *Room 304* (2011), Director - *Out of Love* (2009), Director - *Letters from Denmark* (2006), Director - *Istedgade* (2006), Director - *Små skred* (2003), Director, Writer - *Se mig nu* (2001), Director ## Gallery - ![Birgitte Stærmose](https://film.one/media/person/22740/gallery-e61e95ca004a.jpg) Birgitte Stærmose — Image via TMDB - ![Birgitte Stærmose](https://film.one/media/person/22740/gallery-8852d28103eb.jpg) Birgitte Stærmose — Image via TMDB - ![Birgitte Stærmose](https://film.one/media/person/22740/gallery-671d964f862a.jpg) Birgitte Stærmose — Image via TMDB - ![Birgitte Stærmose](https://film.one/media/person/22740/gallery-1fcbc64758ed.jpg) Birgitte Stærmose — Image via TMDB - ![Birgitte Stærmose](https://film.one/media/person/22740/gallery-a145b0f33b64.jpg) Birgitte Stærmose — Image via TMDB - ![Birgitte Stærmose](https://film.one/media/person/22740/gallery-e891044b1527.jpg) Birgitte Stærmose — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated - European Film Award for Best Short Film 2010: European Film Award for Best Short Film (nominated), for *Out of Love* - European Film Award for Best Short Film 2003: European Film Award for Best Short Film (nominated), for *Small Avalanches* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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