Director
Roy Andersson
83 years · Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden · 32 films
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). Imdb Mini Bio By ; yusufpiskin
Best known for
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
2014 · Director, Screenplay
On Philo
Songs from the Second Floor
2000 · Screenplay, Director
On Criterion Channel
You, the Living
2007 · Director, Screenplay
About Endlessness
2019 · Screenplay, Director
On Kanopy
A Swedish Love Story
1970 · Director, Writer
World of Glory
1991 · Director, Screenplay
Filmography 32
Being Bo Widerberg
2025 · Self
The Andersson Brothers
2024 · Self
Roy Andersson's People
2023 · Self
Being a Human Person
2020 · Self
Året var 1970
2020 · Self (archive footage)
About Endlessness
2019 · Screenplay, Director
On Kanopy
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018 · Self
On Plex
Citizen Schein
2017 · Self
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
2014 · Director, Screenplay
On Philo
Palme
2012 · Self
Live, Human... as Long as You Possibly Can!
2012 · Himself
Room 1112
2012 · Actor
Tomorrow's Another Day
2011 · Himself
5 x Roy Andersson
2009 · Writer, Director
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007 · Director
You, the Living
2007 · Director, Screenplay
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
2006 · Director
With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
2004 · Self
You Do the Best You Can
2001 · Self
The Greatness of the Small Man
2000 · Self
Songs from the Second Floor
2000 · Screenplay, Director
On Criterion Channel
Obsessions from the Second Floor
2000 · Self
Life at Any Cost
1998 · Himself
World of Glory
1991 · Director, Screenplay