Helle Faber

Faber graduated as a journalist from the Danish School of Media and Journalism in 1991 and subsequently worked at DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) until 2003. In 2003, she was hired as a producer at Bastard Film and at one point also became co-owner of the company before it was acquired by Monday Media in 2009. It was at Bastard Film that the foundation of her career in film production was established. In 2010, she founded her own production company, Made in Copenhagen, where she serves as a creative producer and director.^[1]

As a producer, she is behind internationally acclaimed titles, such as the Oscar, BAFTA and Peabody winner Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin,^[2] Mummy's Boys (2025) directed by Jesper Dalgaard, Theatre of Violence (2023) directed by Emil Langballe, The Chocolate War (2022) directed by Miki Mistrati, and Warriors from the North (2014) directed by Søren Steen Jespersen.

In 2026, Helle Faber became the first Dane ever to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature with Mr. Nobody Against Putin,^[3] which also won a BAFTA Award, a Peabody Award, a Robert, a Bodil, and more than 20 other awards.

Faber is a member of the Producers Guild of America.^[4]

• 2025 - Mr. Nobody Against Putin, directed by David Borenstein & Pavel Talankin^[5]
• 2025 - Mummy's Boys, directed by Jesper Dalgaard ^[6]
• 2025 - The Golden Swan (co-producer), directed by Anette Ostrø^[7]
• 2024 - Ungeren, directed by Mads Matthiesen^[8]
• 2024 - Leaving Jesus (co-producer), directed by Ellen Fiske^[9]
• 2023 - Theatre of Violence, directed by Emil Langballe & Lukasz Konopa^[10]
• 2023 - The Mountains (executive producer), directed by Christian Einshøj^[11]
• 2022 - The Chocolate War, directed by Miki Mistrati^[12]
• 2022 - An Eternity of You and Me (executive producer), directed by Sanne This^[13]
• 2021 - Dark Blossom (executive producer), directed by Frigge Fri^[14]
• 2021 - Follow You Home (executive producer), directed by Kathrine Ravn Kruse^[15]
• 2021 - Skál (executive producer), directed by Cecilie Debell & Maria Tórgar∂^[16]
• 2021 - Bellum – The Daemon of War (co-producer), directed by David Herdies & Georg Götmark^[17]
• 2019 - Det Sorte Kapitel, directed by Maya Albana^[18]
• 2019 - A Married Couple, directed by Emil Langballe^[19]
• 2019 - Long, Live, Love, directed by Sine Skibsholt^[20]
• 2018 - Lost Warrior, directed by Søren Steen Jespersen & Nasib Farah^[21]
• 2018 - Reconstruction Utøya (co-producer), directed by Carl Javér^[22]
• 2018 - Doel (executive producer), directed Frederik Sølberg^[23]
• 2017 - The Stranger, directed by Nicole N. Horanyi^[24]
• 2017 - Life as a Grown Up, directed by Anders Gustafsson^[25]
• 2016 - Motley's Law, directed by Nicole N. Horanyi^[26]
• 2016 - Who We Were, directed by Sine Skibsholt^[27]
• 2016 - The Wait, directed by Emil Langballe^[28]
• 2014 - Warriors from the North, directed by Søren Steen Jespersen^[29]
• 2014 - Embracing the Dead, directed by Nanna Frank Møller^[30]
• 2014 - Naked, directed by Nicole N. Horanyi^[31]
• 2013 - Blood Ties, directed by Christian Sønderby Jepsen & Pernille Bervald Jørgensen^[32]
• 2013 - Light Fly, Fly High (co-producer), directed by Susann Østigaard & Breathe Hofseth^[33]
• 2012 - Putin's Kiss, directed by Lise Birk Pedersen^[34]
• 2012 - The Shady Chocolate, directed by Miki Mistrati^[35]
• 2011 - My Beautiful Daughter, directed by Maya Albana^[36]
• 2011 - Med Døden til Følge, directed by Eva Mulvad^[37]
• 2011 - Village at the End of the World, directed by Sarah Gavron^[38]
• 2011 - Au Pair, directed by Nicole N. Horanyi & Heidi Kim Andersen^[39]
• 2010 - Convicted for Terror, directed by Christian Sønderby Jepsen, Miki Mistrati & Nagieb Khaja^[40]
• 2009 - Invisible Girls, directed by Sidse Stausholm^[41]
• 2009 - Shanghai Spaces, directed by Nanna Frank Møller^[42]