Whisky (2004)

Jacobo owns a struggling sock factory in Uruguay, and when his brother comes to visit, he asks his employee Marta to pretend to be his wife. That is the whole setup, and directors Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll play it with almost no expression at all, building the film from repeated routines until a tiny change in one feels like a major event. It won the Prix du Regard Original in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2004. If you love Kaurismäki, this is his closest relative on the list. It was Rebella's last film; he died in 2006.