Region Örebro County Awards Cultural Grant
We are proud to announce that Malin Dahl, director and screenwriter at Backa Studios, has been awarded this year’s cultural grant from the municipality of Örebro. The grant honors Malin’s artistic work and commitment and supports her continued film creative projects.
Malin Dahl has, over many years, developed a strong and original voice in Swedish film, with a focus on character-driven storytelling and visually powerful narratives. The cultural grant enables her to continue exploring innovative ways of telling stories through both film and animation. The motivation:
Film director, screenwriter, and animator Malin Dahl is one of the founders behind the production company Backa Studios. She has directed the feature film Lantisar, which has repeatedly ranked among SVT’s most streamed titles, as well as the feature film May You Live, which premiered at the Göteborg Film Festival in January 2025 and had its Swedish theatrical release in October the same year.
In addition to producing her own films, Malin Dahl is an important contributor to film development in the Örebro region — not least through the many film-educational initiatives she and her company have carried out in schools and cultural schools across the region.
Malin demonstrates that “if you truly want something, it is possible.” Through hard work and a strong do-it-yourself attitude, she succeeds in bringing both her own and her company’s seemingly impossible ideas to life. In encouragement of her continued artistic and pedagogical work within film, Region Örebro County awards this year’s Cultural Grant to Malin Dahl.
The other cultural grant recipients are Maria Simonsson Thulin (Örebro), theatre; Monica Ragnarsson (Örebro), dance; and award recipient Michael Horvath Dahlman (Örebro), poetry.
Backa Studios warmly thanks the Örebro municipality for this recognition and the support it provides to artists working in film, visual art, and storytelling.
Read this post in Swedish → Kulturstipendium till Malin Dahl