Lina Mannheimer was born in Sweden in 1980. She holds a degree in Art, Film and Culture from the Universidad de Nebrija in Madrid and has built her career between Sweden, France and the United States. Early in her professional path she collaborated closely with the French director Gilles Bourdos and worked at the New York based independent production company Salty Features.
In 2009, Mannheimer began developing a documentary project centred on French writer Catherine Robbe Grillet. The first result of this research was the short film The Contract in 2010, which premiered at IDFA and travelled internationally. This short piece offered an initial glimpse into the universe that would later become her debut feature.
Her first feature length documentary, La cérémonie in 2014, marked her transition into long form filmmaking. She continued her exploration of intimacy and human relationships with Mating in 2019, which launched in Competition at the Göteborg Film Festival.
