Rojda Sekersöz

Rojda Sekersöz (born 25 December 1989) is a Swedish director. She began her career directing short and independent films, and has since directed multiple television series. She has won various accolades for her work, including the Audience Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the Gothenburg Film Festival and the Golden Leaf for Best Film at the Duhok International Film Festival. She also won the Guldbagge Newcomer Award.

Sekersöz studied photography and film at Kulturama, and at 19 became the youngest person ever accepted to the directing programme at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. After directing a number of short films, she made her feature film debut with Beyond Dreams (2017), which received critical praise and won several awards. The same year, she also made her stage directorial debut with Skuldsanering. Her second film was My Life as a Comedian, an adaptation of Jonas Gardell's novel of the same name, which premiered in 2019 at the Toronto Film Festival.

She is best known to international audiences for directing the first two seasons of the Netflix original Young Royals (2021–2022), which won Kristallen Awards for Best Programme and Best Youth Drama. She also directed The New Force (2025), a Netflix series set in 1958 about the first female police officers in Sweden. She is directing an upcoming adaptation of Nicolas Lunabba's novel Will You Care If I Die? The film, titled Innan vi lyfter, is slated to premiere in the autumn of 2026.