Frederikke Aspöck is a film director and screenwriter. With a Bachelor of Arts in Set Design for Theatre from London’s Wimbledon School of Art and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, she has her eye on the visuals.

An actor’s director with a keen love of the imperfect human being, Aspöck uses a mix of drama, physical comedy and visual storytelling to portray people the way she prefers them: eagerly trying to do their best in life while inadvertently messing up along the way.

Her shorts and features have traveled the world at film festivals and venues including Cannes, Telluride, Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary and MoMA New York and have won awards such as Cinéfondation 1st Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival for HAPPY NOW, the Grand Prize at the Marrakech International Film Festival for LABRADOR, and Best Director at Moscow International Film Festival for ROSITA.

DE FRIVILLIGE/OUT OF TUNE became a box office hit in Denmark and VIFTEN/EMPIRE won the Nordic Council Film Prize in 2023.

In March 2024 the Italian film festival Bergamo Film Meets honored Aspöck, Lukas Moodysson and Metod Pevec with each their retrospective, where all of Aspöck’s six shorts and four features were screened. In June Aspöck wrapped shooting her fifth feature.

Having spent fourteen years abroad, Aspöck now resides in her native Copenhagen, Denmark.
She is fluent in English, has a very good command of French and speaks conversational German and Italian.