Incident by a Bank
A single take where over 96 people recreates an actual event of a failed bank robbery that took place in Stockholm back in June 2006. Golden Bear at 2010 IFF Berlin.
- Sweden
- 2009, 10 min
- Director: Ruben Östlund
- Director of photography: Marius Dybwad Brandrud
- Editor: Ruben Östlund
- Screenplay: Ruben Östlund
- Cast: Bahador Foladi, Ramtin Parvaneh, Leif Edlund
- Contacts: Swedish Film Institute
- Producer: Marie Kjellsson, Erik Hemmendorff
- Production: Plattform Produktion
Ruben Östlund
Ruben Östlund (b. 1974, Sweden) became famous for directing films about skiing in the late 1990’s. In 2004, he made his award-winning feature debut, The Guitar Mongoloid. His second feature, Involuntary (2008), was screened at Cannes in 2008 and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film the same year. His short film, Incident by a Bank, won the Golden Bear at the 2010 Berlinale. He is currently working of his next feature, Play.