{"id":448460,"date":"2026-05-14T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:58:08","slug":"ruben-ostlund-documentary-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/448460\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben \u00d6stlund Documentary In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSwedish filmmaker and author Sigge Eklund has directed Ruben, a feature documentary about Ruben \u00d6stlund<\/a> and the making of his latest film, The Entertainment System Is Down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Entertainment System Is Down was shot over the last few years and is currently in post-production. The film is expected to compete at next year\u2019s Cannes<\/a> Film Festival, and, according to the synopsis of Eklund\u2019s documentary, it is a \u201cproject driven by an almost impossible ambition: to become the first filmmaker in history to win three Palme d\u2019Or awards at the Cannes Film Festival.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe doc\u2019s synopsis continues: \u201cThe documentary begins in 2022, just after the premiere of Triangle of Sadness. Ruben is at the peak of the film world, yet already consumed by the need to create something even bigger, bolder, and more uncompromising than before. The question is: What should the next film be about \u2014 and what price is he willing to pay to achieve his goal?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEventually, an idea emerges: an entire film set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment system suddenly stops working. A full-scale airplane set is constructed inside a massive hangar in Budapest, and the production quickly turns into a high-wire act \u2014 technically, financially, and emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRuben is produced by Stockholm Syndrome and Tiisch Film in co-production with SVT and Film I V\u00e4st. SF Studios is the distributor. The project was announced this afternoon at Film i V\u00e4st\u2019s annual Cannes press conference. Film i V\u00e4st is the co-producer of two features in the main competition this year at Cannes. Those titles are Fjord, directed by Christian Mungiu and Gentle Monster, directed by Marie Kreutzer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud of our co-productions being selected for competition in Cannes for the 10th consecutive year, which shows Film i V\u00e4st\u2019s strong international position\u201d, Kristina B\u00f6rjeson, Head of Production at Film i V\u00e4st, said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSimultaneously, we\u2019re presenting eight new co-productions, all of them either being shot or post-produced in V\u00e4stra G\u00f6taland. We look forward to them reaching festivals and audiences in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swedish filmmaker and author Sigge Eklund has directed Ruben, a feature documentary about Ruben \u00d6stlund and the making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[47241,93,61,60,270,195024],"class_list":["post-448460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-ruben-u00d6stlund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}