Anna Odell is a Swedish conceptual artist and film director. She graduated from the University College of Arts, Craft and Design, and the Royal Institute of Art. In 2009 her graduation work, Unknown, Woman 2009-349701, was an intervention in the public space. She staged a psychotic attack on the Stockholm bridge, and was taken away by the police to the psychiatric hospital. The performance made the headline of all Swedish newspapers. In 2013, in her feature debut The Reunion (SEFF 2013) was selected for the Critics’ Week at Venice and won a number of awards, among them two Guldbagge Awards, Sweden’s top movie honors, for film and screenplay. X&Y has been screened in festivals such as Rotterdam, SXSW, CPH:PIX and Edimburgh.
Festival de Cine de Sevilla
