Lars Lovén

Lars Lovén is a documentary filmmaker, journalist and documentary producer for radio. Directed the feature documentary Fonko (2016) which captures the contemporary music scene in a number of cities across the African continent, tracing its roots to the fight against colonialism and contextualising it against rapid social change. The film had cinema distribution and festival screenings in more than 40 countries worldwide. Útóipe Cheilteach (2025) is his second feature and premiered at Locarno film festival. Like most of his work it takes place at the intersection of music, politics and history. The same is true for the music documentaries he made for Swedish National Radio P2, including Astor Piazzolla, tangons motvalsgeni (2021), Det sista folkmusikhaket (2019) and Rebetiko (2017).