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Östlund, Ruben |
Date of birth
13 April 1974, Styrsö, Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden
Ruben Östlund (April 13th. 1974, Styrsö, Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden)
Claes Olle Ruben Östlund (born 13 April 1974) is a Swedish film director.
His films Force Majeure (2014) and The Square (2017) won honours at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Palme d'Or for the latter.
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. Together with film producer Erik Hemmendorff he is the co-founder of the production company Plattform Produktion, which produces his films.
His first four feature-length fiction films were The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), Involuntary (2008), Play (2011), and Force Majeure (2014). 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 Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival in 2011.
His film Force Majeure was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.
In 2016 he was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2017, his film The Square, loosely inspired by some of his own experiences, competed at the Cannes Film Festival. It won the prestigious Palme d'Or.
Selected filmography of
Östlund, Ruben
2022
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
2017
The Square (2017)
2014
Force Majeure (2014)
2011
Play (2011)
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