Ruben Östlund

Known for DirectingBorn 1974-04-13 (age 52)Styrsö, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ruben Östlund (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈrʉːbɛnˈœstlɵnd]) (born April 13 1974) is a Swedish filmmaker best known for his satirical black comedy films Force Majeure (2014), The Square(2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Palmes d'Or, four European Film Awards and nominations for three Academy Awards. Östlund was born in Styrsö, Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden. After high school, he started working in various ski resorts in the Alps during the winter seasons. While in the Alps, he began making skiing videos for his friends, which helped him obtain a job at a local production company. He went on to study at the film school in Gothenburg, graduating in 2001. He was accepted to the school based on his skiing films. Together with film producer Erik Hemmendorff, he is the co-founder of the production company Plattform Produktion, which produces his films. His first three feature-length fiction films were The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), Involuntary (2008) and Play (2011). The Guitar Mongoloid won the FIPRESCI Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. Östlund's short film Incident by a Bank won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and the Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival in 2011. In 2014, his film Force Majeure was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Jury Prize. Sweden then submitted Force Majeure for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. After the Academy shortlisted but did not nominate it, Östlund released a humorous video of his response to missing the nomination list. In 2016, he was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes. In 2017, his film The Square, loosely inspired by some of his own experiences and art installation with Kalle Boman, competed at the Cannes Film Festival, where it ultimately won the Palme d'Or. Alissa Wilkinson of Vox described the film as "Burying self-referential allusions in the background and merrily poking viewers till they bruise, The Square at times feels more like longform performance art than a narrative film. It's social satire by way of art-world comedy, and no woke participant is exempt from its barbs." In 2020, he received the King's Medal in Gold for significant efforts in Swedish film. Afterwards, he pursued the project Triangle of Sadness, a satirical film about the wealthy elite, winning his second Palme d'Or in 2022. On January 23, 2023, he won Best Director at the Guldbaggens gala for Triangle of Sadness. The film won five other nominations. In January of the same year, only a day after winning the Guldbaggengala, Triangle of Sadness received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. He was the Jury president of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Östlund has been in a relationship with fashion photographer Sina Görcz since 2014 and has a son called Elias. He was previously married to his director colleague Andrea Östlund. They divorced in 2008 and have twin daughters, Alva and Hilda, together. Östlund was 28 when he became a father for the first time and was working on The Guitar Mongoloid, his first feature film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruben Östlund, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Death of a Fantastic Machine

Min sanning

Babel

Being Bo Widerberg

Life and Other Problems

Carina Bergfeldt

And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine

Code Haneke

Il était une fois... « The Square »

Ten Meter Tower

Triangle of Sadness

Let the Others Deal With Love

An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation

Weekend

Force Majeure

Room 1112

Snow thérapie

Beau Is Afraid

The Square

Play

Incident by a Bank

Involuntary

Autobiographical Scene Number 6882

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Free Radicals

Fight on a Swedish Beach!!

Room 999

The Guitar Mongoloid

Downhill

Skavlan

Greetings from the Woods

Twin Brothers: 53 Scenes in Chronological Order

Nattbad

Mustasch: Down in Black

Family Again

Vittorio De Sica – La Vie in Scene

Redoubt

The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues

Ritratti di cinema

Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt

Marks

Ruben Östlund Attack on NATO

Le Cercle

Den ljusnande framtid är vår

Irmelin

Kalle och bollhavet

Scen nr 6345 ur mitt liv

Free Radicals II