A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Nantes and then of the Paris studios of Clément Cogitore and Harald Thys, Ovan Gruvan is his first film produced with Lova Karlsson. He received the Thaddaeus Ropac prize from the Friends of Fine Arts in 2020 and was selected by the New Worlds programme of the Ministry of Culture to direct his next film on the Aérotrain.