Roy Andersson

Roy Andersson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. His debut feature, A Swedish Love Story (1970), won four awards at Berlin. He went on a 25-year hiatus from feature filmmaking after the release of his second film, Giliap (1975), directing commercials and shorts. According to Andersson, Songs from the Second Floor (2000), which won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, You the Living (2007) which won several international awards as well as the Guldbagge Award for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture and A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, which captured the Golden Lion in Venice, comprise a trilogy about what it means to be human.

FILMOGRAPHY

1967 Besöka sin son – short 
1968 Hämta en cykel – short 
1968 The White Game (Den vita sporten) – doc. 
1969 Lördagen den 5.10
1970 A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria)
1975 Giliap
1979 Så fruktansvärt onödigt – short 
1980 Trygare kan ingen vara – short 
1987 Something Happened (Någonting har hänt) – short 
1991 World of Glory (Härlig är jorden) – short 
2000 Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen)
2000 Un matin partout dans le monde – TV short
2007 You, the Living (Du levande)
2014 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron)