
Person
Benjamin Ree
Directing · Born 1989-07-10 · Oslo, Norway
Biography
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."
Known for

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Director

Magnus
Director

The Painter and the Thief
Director

Dreaming of the Golden Eagle
Director

The Ballad of Morgan Kane
Editorial Consultant

When Ailin Kissed Lars
Director
David Lynch: Insight
Self
The Greatest Illusion
Director
Filmography
- 2024The Remarkable Life of IbelinDirector
- 2020The Painter and the ThiefDirector
- 2017The Ballad of Morgan KaneEditorial Consultant
- 2017David Lynch: InsightSelf
- 2016MagnusDirector
- 2014When Ailin Kissed LarsDirector
- 2012Dreaming of the Golden EagleDirector
- —The Greatest IllusionDirector
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