Directing
Community Rating
7.4
TMDB estimate
Born
July 10, 1989 (age 36)
Born in
Oslo, Norway
Benjamin Ree (born July 10, 1989) is a Norwegian director and cinematographer of several documentaries, including Magnus (2016), The Painter and the Thief (2020), and Ibelin (2024). Ree began making films at the age of eleven and studied Journalism at Oslo Metropolitan University. After his studies Ree worked as a freelance videojournalist for BBC and Reuters, most notably covering the 2011 Norway attacks. Ree has said in interviews that making his first feature Magnus was his film school: "There I understood that I could transfer the interviews to a universal, nonverbal cinematic language."
The Greatest Illusion
as Director
TBA
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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
as Director, Additional Editor
2024
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The Painter and the Thief
as Director, Writer, Director of Photography
2020
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The Ballad of Morgan Kane
as Editorial Consultant
2017
—David Lynch: Insight
as Self
2017
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Magnus
as Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
2016
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When Ailin Kissed Lars
as Director, Writer, Producer
2014
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Dreaming of the Golden Eagle
as Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
2012
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