Ruben Östlund is an award-winning Swedish filmmaker who began his career directing ski videos. He has become well known for his humorous and accurate portrayal of human social behaviour, as well as for his renowned used of Photoshop and other forms of image-processing software in his films. Östlund is best known for his 2017 Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nominated film The Square, his 2014 Force Majeure, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes and was nominated for a Golden Globe, and his 2011 feature Play, which won the Coup de cœur at Cannes before playing at Venice and Toronto. His lives in Gothenburg and with Erik Hemmendorff is the co-founder of the production company Plattform Produktion. (Picture courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.)
