Director

Benjamin Ree

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 0All crew credits: 6

TMDB ID: 1480225

IMDb ID: nm5558989

Known for: Directing

Born: July 10, 1989

Age: 37

Place of birth: Oslo, Norway

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2012 - 2024

Years active: 13

Average TMDB rating: 7.43

Wikidata: Q16172849

Also known as

Бенджамин Ри

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Director (5)Editorial Consultant (1)

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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."

Movies

Directed Movies

Movies directed by Benjamin Ree.

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

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2024 Movie

The Painter and the Thief

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2020 Movie

Magnus

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2016 Movie

When Ailin Kissed Lars

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2014 Movie

Dreaming of the Golden Eagle

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2012 Movie

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