IFFR 2001

Roy Andersson

Unique screening of a student film by Andersson.

Roy Andersson focus

Att hämta en cykel

Besöka sin son

Andersson's second work is a stylised film about Giliap, who works as a waiter in a dubious hotel and becomes entangled between his love for the beautiful Anna and the criminal ambitions of a colleague.

Giliap

Kjell Andersson

Bo Harringer

Documentary about the approach and the ideas of film-maker in focus Andersson, made by his brother Kjell.

The Greatness of the Small Man

Quay Brothers

Inspired by Stockhausen's Zwei Paare: the mental portrait of a woman who continues to write incessantly to her absent lover.

In Absentia

Lördagen den 5.10

Nicolas Schmerkin

Documentary about film-maker in focus Roy Andersson and his films, by one of the editors of the French magazine 'Réparages'.

Obsessions du deuxième étage

Selection from more than three hundred commercials made by Roy Andersson.

Roy Andersson - Commercials (1975-2000)

Andersson's vision on the AIDS epidemic was not entirely what the commissioners of the film had hoped for.

Something Happened

In 47 scenes, Roy Andersson exposes the absurdity of modern man. Awarded the Grand Prix de Jury at Cannes.

47 scenes about the vicissitudes of modern mankind. Black humour goes hand in hand with human compassion, in a masterpiece of painterly beauty.

Songs from the Second Floor

Début film by Andersson from 1969 was a great success at the time, and is still a vital, sharp and captivating story about juvenile love and the terrible work of adults.

A Swedish Love Story

Grupp 13

Committed film by a Swedish collective (including Roy Andersson) motivated by the David-Cup tennis tournament between Sweden and Zimbabwe in 1968.

Den vita sporten

Portrait of a world that is anything but glorious. A series of tableaux with a famous nightmarish opening scene. First film in the project '90 minutes of the Nineties', short films produced for the Göteborg Film Festival.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025