Björn Lennart Runge is a Swedish director and author. He was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize in 2006 for Mun mot mun. Runge was born in Lysekil. He has worked in film since he was 20, and has worked with Roy Andersson, amongst others. He graduated from the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm in 1989. In 1991, he worked on the prizewinning short film Greger Olsson köper en bil, and in 2004, he won a Guldbagge Award for the best directing and script for the film Om jag vänder mig om.