Autobiographical Scene Number 6882

Ruben Östlund was born in 1974 in Sweden. He started as a director of skiing films in the 1990s, studied graphic design before enrolling at the film school in Göteborg , from which he graduated in 2001. His feature debut was The Guitar Mongoloid in 2004. Film Involuntary (2008) was distributed in more than twenty countries and shown at numerous festivals. Two years later, he won the Golden Bear in Berlin for his short film Incident by a Bank (2010), which was screened in Scanorama. In 2011, his third feature film Play received many prestigious awards.