A 30-year old man is celebrating Midsummer's Eve together with friends. He makes his friends come and watch as he is going to jump in to the sea from a very high bridge.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 9 min.
- Country, year
- Sweden, 2005
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Swedish
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Ruben Östlund
- Screenplay
- Ruben Ostlund, Erik Hemmendorff
- Cinematography
- Ruben Ostlund
- Music
- Franz Schubert
- Cast
- Anette Anderson, Ingela Borgstrom, Martin Bystrom
Festivals and awards
- nominuotas geriausio trumpametražio filmo kategorijoje.
- nominated for Best Short Film Award
Director
Ruben Östlund
Ruben Östlund was born in 1974 in Sweden. He started as a director of skiing films in the 1990s, studied graphic design before enrolling at the film school in Göteborg , from which he graduated in 2001. His feature debut was The Guitar Mongoloid in 2004. Film Involuntary (2008) was distributed in more than twenty countries and shown at numerous festivals. Two years later, he won the Golden Bear in Berlin for his short film Incident by a Bank (2010), which was screened in Scanorama. In 2011, his third feature film Play received many prestigious awards.
