Ida Marie Gedbjerg
Born in 1990, Ida Marie Gedbjerg is a Danish documentary filmmaker based in Copenhagen. With a background in anthropology, she is attracted to stories about human beings. Her feature documentary The Lost Notebook (2024) portrays a broken family held together by their shared passion for cinema and premiered at CPH:DOX 2024. Her first documentary, Qamar (2015), about a transgender refugee’s struggle, won the first prize at Slemani International Festival 2017.
Besides her practice as a filmmaker, Ida works as a film teacher. In 2018, she co-founded UP SCHOOL, a creative documentary class for young adults. In her teaching, she focuses on the community building aspects of documentary filmmaking and the connectedness that it generates with the world.