---
name: "Maria Ekerhovd"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maria-ekerhovd"
fi1m_id: "maria-ekerhovd"
imdb_id: "nm2250929"
tmdb_id: 1365899
wikidata_id: "Q19463601"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T19:21:17.722027+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."
---

# Maria Ekerhovd

## Identity

Maria Ekerhovd

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maria-ekerhovd
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maria-ekerhovd
- **IMDb ID:** nm2250929
- **TMDB ID:** 1365899
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19463601
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ekerhovd, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19463601, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2250929/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1365899

Producer. Born 1 January 1975 in Bergen, Norway.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1975, Bergen, Norway
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ekerhovd, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19463601, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2250929/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1365899

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Sentimental Value*](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Maria Ekerhovd is a Norwegian film producer. Born in Bergen in 1975, she graduated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in film and video production after being unsuccessful in applications to film schools. She began her career in the industry as a clapper loader and later worked as a producer, production manager and first assistant director on short films.

In 2011 she founded the production company Mer Film. Her credits include *The Innocents* (2021), *War Sailor* (2022) and *Sentimental Value* (2025). She won the Eurimages Co-Production Award at the 2021 European Film Awards and has received multiple Amanda Award nominations for best film.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, screendaily.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Sentimental Value* (2025), Fi1m 79, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md)
- *Flee* (2021), Fi1m 83, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/flee.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Butterfly* (2026), Producer
- *Sentimental Value* (2025), Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md)
- *The Ugly Stepsister* (2025), Producer
- *Kalak* (2024), Co-Producer
- *War Sailor* (2023), series, Producer
- *Let the River Flow* (2023), Producer
- *More Than Ever* (2022), Co-Producer
- *War Sailor* (2022), Producer
- *Memory of Water* (2022), Co-Producer
- *12 Dares* (2022), Producer
- *The Innocents* (2021), Producer
- *Flee* (2021), Co-Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/flee.md)
- *Gritt* (2021), Producer
- *Exit Plan* (2019), Co-Producer
- *Disco* (2019), Producer
- *Divine Love* (2019), Co-Producer
- *Letters* (2017), Producer
- *What Will People Say* (2017), Producer
- *From the Balcony* (2017), Producer
- *The Tree Feller* (2017), Producer
- *Alt brenner* (2017), Producer
- *The Untamed* (2016), Co-Producer
- *Every Thing Will Be Fine* (2015), Co-Producer
- *The Disappearing Illusionist* (2015), Producer
- *Here Is Harold* (2014), Producer
- *Out of Nature* (2014), Producer
- *I Am Yours* (2013), Producer
- *Vegas* (2009), Producer
- *5 grøss fra Vestlandet* (2007), Producer
- *Sniffer* (2006), Producer
- *If Love Should Die*, Producer
- *The Second Sex*, Producer
- *Untitled*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2027: Best Picture (nominated), for *Sentimental Value*
- 2026: Best Picture (nominated), for *Sentimental Value*

### Other awards — 2 won

- European Film Award for Best European Co-Producer 2021: European Film Award for Best European Co-Producer (won)
- Edith Carlmar Prize 2013: Edith Carlmar Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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