CYCLE: DIRECTOR

From 22.02. To 17.04.2010.

Program of new Swedish film

Ruben Östlund

13.04.1974, Styrsö, Sweden

 

Director

Östlund is Swedish director, screenwriter and editor. He started to work on film as an amateur and made skiing films. He graduated with a degree in directing from the University in Göteborg in 2001. Two years after that he founded the production house Plattform Production with his colleague Erik Hemmendorff. After a few documentaries, he made his first feature film The Guitar Mongoloid (Gitarrmongot, 2004) and won the FIPRESCI award at the Moscow Film Festival in 2005. He also made the short film Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 (Scen nr: 6882 ur mitt liv, 2005) and the feature film Involuntary (De ofrivilliga, 2008). He is currently working on his third feature film Play.

Filmography


Films by this director

Triangle of Sadness

(Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, 2022)

Directed by: Ruben Östlund
PHOTOGRAPHY: Fredrik Wenzel
Synopsis:

Models Carl and Yaya are invited on a luxury cruise in the company of the ultra-rich – a Russian oligarch, British arms dealers and the eccentric, Marx-quoting alcoholic captain. At first, everything seems perfectly Instagrammable, but a storm is brewing and the luxurious dinner with the captain is spoiled by all-around seasickness. Part of the passengers and crew end up stranded on a deserted island. Discovering that only one of them can catch fish, the hierarchy among the marooned is suddenly ...

color, 142'

The Square

(Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, 2017)

Directed by: Ruben Östlund
PHOTOGRAPHY: Fredrik Wenzel
Synopsis:

Christian je ugledni kustos u muzeju suvremene umjetnosti čiji se život okrene naglavačke kada mu nasred ulice ukradu mobitel i novčanik. Nakon što putem aplikacije locira mobitel odluči ostaviti gnjevno pismo u poštanskim sandučićima svih potencijalnih lopova. Suluda gesta pretvori se u noćnu moru kad Christian dobije neočekivani odgovor na svoje pismo. Paralelno Christian priprema svoju sljedeću veliku izložbu, 'Kvadrat', instalaciju koja poziva prolaznike na altruizam. No uskoro će saznati ka...

color, DCP, 151 min

Tourist

(Force Majeure, Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, 2014)

Directed by: Ruben Östlund
PHOTOGRAPHY: Fredrik Wenzel
Synopsis:

Švedska obitelj provodi skijaške praznike u francuskim Alpama. Tijekom ručka na terasi restorana uoče kako im se približava lavina. Isprva znatiželjni, gosti odjednom krenu panično bježati. Majka Ebbe doziva svog supruga želeći zaštititi njihovo dvoje djece, no Thomas je pobjegao sam. Lavina se pokazala bezopasnom, no njihov brak je uzdrman. Obiteljska drama koja istražuje ponašanje pojedinca u izvanrednim situacijama, odnosno što instinktivno ponašanje u trenutku panike otkriva o čovjekovu kara...

color, 120'

Involuntary

(De ofrivilliga, 2008)

Directed by: Ruben Östlund
PHOTOGRAPHY: Marius Dybwad Brandrud
Synopsis:

The film follows a group of people from several different perspectives. A schoolteacher tries to help a student who is molested by other professors. Two teenagers are having fun, drinking and taking provocative photos, which results in one of them ending up drunk and passed out in a park. A bus driver takes his passengers hostage. Leffe persuades a friend to pull a practical joke…

color, 35 mm, 98 min
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