Jonas is a Norwegian director and writer who graduated from the Polish National Film School. His debut short film Darek (2009) won the Norwegian academy Amanda plus several international awards. His second short Everything Will Be Ok (2011) premiered in Rotterdam. It won several national and international awards, and it got Jonas his second Norwegian academy nomination. In 2017 he released his first feature film Valley of Shadows. It premiered in Toronto where it garnered critical acclaim. With his next feature
film Eva, Jonas continues to explore the coming-of-age genre.