In March 1996 , Andersson began filming '' Songs from the Second Floor '' , a film that was completed four years later in May 2000 . After its premiere at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival the film also became an international critical success . It won the Jury Prize in Cannes and five Guldbagge Awards in Sweden for best film , direction , cinematography , screenplay and sound . The film was made up of forty-six long tableaux shots , marrying tough , bleak social criticism with his characteristic absurdist dead-pan and surrealism
2000 Cannes Film Festival
2000 Cannes Film Festival
Roy Andersson