Roy Andersson (1943, Sweden) is a writer and filmmaker. The year after graduating from the Swedish Film School, he made his first feature film, A Swedish Love Story (1970), which won four prizes at the Berlin Film Festival. He established a film studio and directed Songs from the Second Floor, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. It was the first chapter of “The Living Trilogy”, followed by You, the Living. In 2009, the Museum of Modern Art in New York held an exhibition of his work to celebrate his distinctive filmmaking style, characterised by stationary shots, meticulously conceived tableaux, absurdist comedy, and an essential humanity. Fifteen years in the making, the final part of his trilogy, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival.
