Director Ruben Östlund announced in Cannes that he wanted one of the scenes in his upcoming airplane disaster movie The Entertainment System Is Down to prompt the biggest walkout in the history ...

In just over a decade, Ruben Östlund has established himself as one of the new Cannes masters, leapfrogging from sidebar to sidebar—2011’s Play debuted in Directors’ Fortnight, 2014’s ...

Ruben Östlund's highly anticipated "The Entertainment System Is Down" has added Cinema Inutile as executive producer, continuing the company's strategic expansion into larger-scale international ...

In 2015, on Oscar nominations morning, Swedish director Ruben Östlund became something of an internet meme. Östlund and his producing partner Erik Hemmendorff, inside a room in New York’s ...

People can't stop talking about the monkey and the condom in art-world satire "The Square," which holds up an unflattering mirror to complacent Liberal high culture. “Revenge!” cried Swedish ...

We sat down with Ruben Östlund to talk about his banner year, the complexities of crafting satire in a modern world that seems to out-parody parody, the joys of Monty Python, and what his next ...

Ruben Östlund recently screened his new film Triangle of Sadness to a select audience in Paris. Among the attendees was “one of the richest persons in France”, who stood up during a Q&A and ...

Swedish director Ruben Östlund opened this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival with his raucously entertaining new social satire “Triangle of Sadness,” continuing a festival tour that began this ...

Ruben Östlund has always maintained a fearlessness in his work. 2011’s Play depicted a group of Swedish-Somali boys who rob white kids by preying on their discomfort with race. A thread in 2008’s ...

The two-time Palme d'Or winner wants media to be treated with a level of caution that reflects its increasingly large impact on society. As human beings spend an ever-increasing amount of their ...