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SYNOPSIS

A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing and spend some precious time with each other. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband, Tomas, as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life. The anticipated disaster having failed to occur, and yet the family’s world has been shaken to its core. Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.

Ruben Östlund

Ruben Ostlund was born in 1974 in Styrso, a small island off the West Coast of Sweden. He studied graphic design before enrolling at the University of Gothenburg, where he met producer Erik Hemmendorff with whom he later founded Plattform Produktion. An avid skier, Ostlund directed three ski films, alluding to his taste for long sequence shots, a taste he structured and developed throughout his film studies and which to this day remains an important trademark of his work. Ruben has become well known for his humorous and accurate portrayal of human social behaviour, as well as for his renowned use of Photoshop and other forms of image processing software in his films.


Filmography)
2014 Turist / Force Majeure
2008 De ofrivilliga / Involuntary
2004 Gitarrmongot

Festivals
2014 Toronto, Cannes, Sarajevo, Chicago, Seville

Awards
2014 Cannes - Un Certain Regard Award (Ruben Östlund); Chicago - Gold Hugo Best Feature; Seville - Best Screenplay (Ruben Östlund)

An ice cold knockout. Briliantly perceptive and frostily funny.
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice