Roy Andersson
Director
Biography
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival.
Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). Anderson received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. He other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019).
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Filmography
Bergman: A Year in a Life
as Self 2018
Palme
as Self 2012
Being a Human Person
as Self 2020
Room 1112
2012
The Andersson Brothers
as Self 2024
Life at Any Cost
as Himself 1998
Tomorrow's Another Day
as Himself 2011
Citizen Schein
as Self 2017
Året var 1970
as Self (archive footage) 2020
Being Bo Widerberg
as Self 2025
Roy Andersson's People
as Self 2023
You Do the Best You Can
as Self 2001
Obsessions du deuxième étage
as Self 2000
The Greatness of the Small Man
as Self 2000
With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
as Self 2004
Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan!
as Himself 2012