Sven Bresser

Director at DIFF 2026

Sven Bresser is a filmmaker based in Amsterdam. His first short film L’été et tout le reste premiered in the official selection of the 75th Venice International Film Festival, was selected at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Dutch Academy Award for Best Short Film. That same year, his TV film Free Fight was nominated for two Dutch Academy Awards. After finishing the mid-length film She Used to Sing Here in 2021, he started working on his feature film Reedland, which premiered at the 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week. It is a story set in the same rural landscape where he grew up.