Roy Andersson
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
Being Bo Widerberg
2025
as Self
The Andersson Brothers
2024
as Self
Roy Andersson's People
2023
as Self
Being a Human Person
2020
as Self
Året var 1970
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
as Self
Citizen Schein
2017
as Self
Palme
2012
as Self
Live, Human... as Long as You Possibly Can!
2012
as Himself
Room 1112
2012
Tomorrow's Another Day
2011
as Himself
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På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
2009
as Himself
With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
2004
as Self
You Do the Best You Can
2001
as Self
The Greatness of the Small Man
2000
as Self
Obsessions from the Second Floor
2000
as Self
Life at Any Cost
1998
as Himself