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
Cast Credits
Being Bo Widerberg
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2025
The Andersson Brothers
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024
Roy Andersson's People
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2023
Being a Human Person
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020
Året var 1970
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2020
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2018
Citizen Schein
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2017
Palme
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2012
Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan!
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 2012
Room 1112
Character:
MOVIE • 2012
Tomorrow's Another Day
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 2011
På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 2009
With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2004
You Do the Best You Can
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2001
The Greatness of the Small Man
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2000
Obsessions du deuxième étage
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2000
Life at Any Cost
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 1998
Crew
Crew Credits
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Role: Thanks
MOVIE • 2021
About Endlessness
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2019
About Endlessness
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019
About Endlessness
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2019
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2014
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2014
5 x Roy Andersson
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2009
5 x Roy Andersson
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2009
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2007
You, the Living
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2007
You, the Living
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2007
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2006
Songs from the Second Floor
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2000
Songs from the Second Floor
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2000
Songs from the Second Floor
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2000
Songs from the Second Floor
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2000
One Morning All Over the World
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2000
World of Glory
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1991
World of Glory
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1991
Something Has Happened
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 1987