Cast: Lars von Trier

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Aleksandr Sokúrov · Norman Lloyd · Lars von Trier · Paul Schrader

Synopsis 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of 900 minutes. It was directed and narrated by Mark Cousins, a film critic...

Direction M. Claire Pijman

Cast Jim Jarmusch · Steve McQueen · Robby Müller · Lars von Trier

Synopsis DoP Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. Director Claire Pijman had access to his personal archive to create an extraordinary film essay that intertwines archival material with excerpts of his oeuvre.

Direction Christopher Kenneally

Cast Keanu Reeves · James Cameron · David Fincher · David Lynch

Synopsis The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.

Direction Jane Magnusson · Hynek Pallas

Cast Woody Allen · Michael Haneke · Martin Scorsese · Ridley Scott

Synopsis Ingmar Bergman's home on Fårö island occupies something of a mythical status among legendary filmmakers as Woody Allen, Michael Haneke, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tomas Alfredson, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, Takeshi Kitano, Isabella Rossellini, Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Robert...

Direction Jane Magnusson

Cast Ingmar Bergman · Lena Endre · Thorsten Flinck · Elliott Gould

Synopsis Journeying through 1957, the year Bergman released two of his most acclaimed features (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), made a TV film and directed four plays for theatre, Magnusson has amassed a wealth of archive and contemporary interviews, along...

Direction Lars von Trier · Jorgen Leth

Cast Lars von Trier · Jorgen Leth · Claus Nissen · Jacqueline Arenal

Synopsis In this playful, mischievous look at the creative process, Danish auteur Lars von Trier challenges his mentor Jørgen Leth to remake Leth’s influential 1967 short "The Perfect Human" five times, with each remake having a von Trier-imposed restriction.

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Synopsis To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35 three-minute short films by some of the world's leading directors,...

Direction Sami Saif

Cast Lars von Trier · Nicole Kidman · Ben Gazzara · Chloë Sevigny

Synopsis Documentary about the film "Dogville", directed by Lars Von Trier.

Direction Stig Björkman · Fredrik von Krusenstjerna

Cast Lars von Trier · Stellan Skarsgard · Emily Watson · Morten Arnfred

Synopsis A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Lars von Trier · Niels Vorsel · Udo Kier

Synopsis A film director and a script writer (performed by Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel themselves) write a screenplay, in which an epidemic spreads about the whole world. Like the protagonist they do not notice, that a real epidemic is...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Lars von Trier · Inger Hvidtfeldt · Karen Oksbjerg · Brigitte Pelissier

Synopsis A young, mentally ill man, a visual artist in crisis Victor Marse (Lars von Trier) meets two nurses (Eliza and her girlfriend) during his stay in a sanatorium. These nurses are obvious lesbians. Victor lives with Eliza and her son....

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Inger Hvidtfeldt · Annette Linnet · Carl-Henrik Trier · Lars von Trier

Synopsis Menthe - la bienheureuse is a Danish short film of the Danish director Lars von Trier from 1979. The film is based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury , Story of O , and tells the story of a...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Lars von Trier

Synopsis Directed by Lars von Trier at the age of 12.

Direction Stig Björkman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Lars von Trier · Olivier Assayas · Arnaud Desplechin

Synopsis Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von...

Direction Jesper Jargil

Cast Lars von Trier · Thomas Vinterberg · Søren Kragh-Jacobsen · Kristian Levring

Synopsis The filmmakers who created the Dogme Manifesto reflect, argue, and watch clips of their own films.

Direction Benjamin Meade

Cast William S. Burroughs · Stan Brakhage · Ray Harryhausen · Guy Maddin

Synopsis This is a compilation of experimental, documentary, and shorts films by award winning filmmaker Benjamin Meade. Most this is never before seen footage and ranges from political, educational, to absurd. An extremely well done selections of work from one the...

Direction Jesper Jargil

Cast Lars von Trier

Synopsis Jesper Jargil, cinematographer and "assistant director" on Lars von Trier's The Idiots, put together this fascinating, sometimes incriminating documentary about the film's director and his methods of production. The IFC's von Trier retro winds up with Jesper Jargil's The Humiliated—an...

Direction Jane Magnusson · Hynek Pallas

Cast Tomas Alfredson · Woody Allen · Wes Anderson · Francis Ford Coppola

Synopsis Directors such as Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson discuss Ingmar Bergman and his films.

Direction Leif Magnusson

Cast Adam Kozlowski · Boguslaw Linda · Hilda Jensen · Mirek Dymitrow

Synopsis Two young boys at an orphanage somewhere in Yugoslavia decide one day on making an escape. The younger, Jens plans to look for his father in Copenhagen (Denmark), while the older one, Hassec wishes to find his brother in Hamburg...

Direction Nikolaj Buchardt

Cast Lars von Trier · Jean-Marc Barr · Eddie Constantine · Tómas Gislason

Synopsis This documentary includes an extensive interview with Lars von Trier about his just completed Europa trilogy as well as footage from the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Perhaps of greatest interest, the last section of the documentary includes a look at...