Ruben Östlund
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Ruben Östlund in 2014. |
| Born |
Claes Olle Ruben Östlund
(1974-04-13) 13 April 1974
Styrsö, Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden |
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| Nationality |
Swedish |
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| Occupation |
Film director, screenwriter, film editor, producer, cinematographer |
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| Years active |
1993–present |
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Claes Olle Ruben Östlund (born 13 April 1974) is a Swedish film director. He has directed four feature-length fiction films: The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), Involuntary (2008), Play (2011), and Force Majeure (2014).[1]
Career
Ruben Östlund started as a director of skiing films in the 1990s, and eventually went on to study at the film school in Gothenburg, from which he graduated in 2001. He was accepted to the school based on his skiing films.[2] Together with film producer Erik Hemmendorff he is the co-founder of the production company Plattform Produktion, which produces his films.[3]
His 2004 film The Guitar Mongoloid won the FIPRESCI Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.[4][5] Östlund's short film Incident by a Bank won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.[6] and Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival in 2011.
His 2014 film Force Majeure was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival[7] where it won the Jury Prize.[8]
Filmography
| Year | English title | Original title | Type |
| 1993 | Addicted | Skiing film |
| 1997 | Free Radicals | Skiing film |
| 1998 | Free Radicals 2 | Skiing film |
| 2000 | Låt dom andra sköta kärleken | Documentary |
| 2002 | Family Again | Familj igen | Documentary |
| 2004 | The Guitar Mongoloid | Gitarrmongot | Fiction feature |
| 2005 | Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 | Scen nr: 6882 ur mitt liv | Fiction short |
| 2008 | Involuntary | De ofrivilliga | Fiction feature |
| 2010 | Incident by a Bank | Händelse vid bank | Fiction short |
| 2011 | Play | Fiction feature |
| 2014 | Force Majeure | Turist | Fiction feature |
References
External links
| Awards for Ruben Östlund |
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| | 1950s |
- Paris la nuit – Jacques Baratier and Jean Valère (1956)
- Gente lontana – Unknown (1957)
- La lunga raccolta – Lionetto Fabbri (1958)
- Prijs de zee – Herman van der Horst (1959)
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| | 1960s |
- Le songe des chevaux sauvages – Denys Colomb de Daunant (1960)
- Gesicht von der Stange? – Raimund Ruehl (1961)
- De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel – Jan Vrijman (1962)
- Bowspelement – Charles Huguenot van der Linden (1963)
- Kirdi – Max Lersch (1964)
- Yeats Country – Patrick Carey (1965)
- Knud – Jørgen Roos (1966)
- Through the Eyes of a Painter – M.F. Hussain (1967)
- Portrait: Orson Welles – François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif (1968)
- To See or Not to See – Bretislav Pojar (1969)
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| | 1970s |
- 1501 1/2 – Paul B. Price (1971)
- Flyaway – Robin Lehman (1972)
- Colter's Hell – Robin Lehman (1973)
- History of the World in Three Minutes Flat – Michael Mills (1974)
- See – Robin Lehman (1975)
- Horu - munakata shiko no sekai – Takeo Yanagawa (1976)
- Ortsfremd... wohnhaft vormals Mainzerlandstraße – Hedda Rinneberg and Hans Sachs (1977)
- Co jsme udelali slepicím – Vladimír Jiránek and Josef Hekrdle (1978)
- Ubu – Geoff Dunbar (1979)
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| | 1980s |
- Hlavy – Petr Sís (1980)
- History of the World in Three Minutes Flat – Michael Mills (1981)
- Loutka, prítel cloveka – Ivan Renc (1982)
- Moznosti dialogu – Jan Svankmajer (1983)
- Cykelsymfonien – Åke Sandgren (1984)
- Nr. 1 - Aus Berichten der Wach- und Patrouillendienste – Helke Sander (1985)
- Tom Goes to the Bar – Dean Parisot (1986)
- Curriculum vitae – Pavel Koutský (1987)
- Oblast – Zdravko Barisic (1988)
- Pas à deux – Monique Renault and Gerrit van Dijk (1989)
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| | 1990s |
- Mistertao – Bruno Bozzetto (1990)
- Six Point Nine – Dan Bootzin (1991)
- Bolero – Ivan Maksimov (1993)
- Hamu– Ferenc Cakó (1994)
- Repete– Michaela Pavlátová (1995)
- Pribitie poezda– Andrei Zhelezniakov (1996)
- Senaste Nytt – Per Carleson (1997)
- Ik beweeg, dus ik besta – Gerrit van Dijk (1998)
- Faraon / Maski – Sergei Ovcharov/ Piotr Karwas (1999)
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| | 2000s |
- Hommage à Alfred Lepetit – Jean Rousselot (2000)
- Âme noire - Black Soul – Martine Chartrand (2001)
- Bridget's Daughter – Charles Olivier(2002)
- (A)Torzija – Stefan Arsenijevic (2003)
- Un cartus de kent si un pachet de cafea – Cristi Puiu (2004)
- Milk – Peter Mackie Burns (2005)
- Aldrig som första gången! – Jonas Odell (2006)
- Raak – Hanro Smitsman (2007)
- O zi buna de plaja – Bogdan Mustata(2008)
- Please Say Something – David O'Reilly (2009)
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| | 2010s |
- Händelse vid bank – Ruben Östlund (2010)
- Paranmanjang – Chan-kyong Park and Chan-wook Park (2011)
- Rafa – João Salaviza (2012)
- La fugue – Jean-Bernard Marlin (2013)
- Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe – Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (2014)
- Ho-san-na – Young-kil Na (2015)
- Balada de um Batráquio – Leonor Teles (2016)
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