Lars von Trier

The owner of an Information Technology firm wants to sell his business for profit. The trouble is that when he started his firm he invented a...

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use...

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a...

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as...

A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.

Lars von Trier was interviewed by Christian Lund at his home outside Copenhagen in November 2020.

Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late...

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...

Although at first sight this might look like a simple ‘making of DANCER IN THE DARK’, the later developments in the film reveal the whole drama...

The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without the blood running through them. I came to Barão...

A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård,...

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital...

Filmmaker Eva Ziemsen was determined to interview renowned film director, Lars von Trier. Her provocative offer, to conduct the interview nude, led...

Behind-the-scenes documentary about Lars von Trier's latest movie Europa (1991). Also features unique footage of Trier and cast shooting a bit of...

Danish documentary from TV2 in 1991.

German/French TV documentary portraying Danish film director Lars von Trier.

Filmbyen is a cinema-town created by Lars Von Trier (director) et Peter Aalbek Jensen (producer). They founded together a company which regroups all...

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Breaking The Waves director Lars Von Trier invents his own set of rules for filmmaking.

Behind the scenes documentary of Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime (1984).

Palm Springs resident and film and art legend Udo Kier is "arteholic". He lives, breathes and makes art and at times he is even a living art piece....

Based on the sadomasochistic novel by Dominique Aury, "Story of O", tells the story of a voluntary female submission.

Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script...

Documentary on Lars von Trier

The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a...

A story of 6-year-old Alberte who decides to leave her parents, because they are always busy working or watching TV, and don’t have time to do fun...

Lars von Trier himself has one of the lead roles in this short film about a bank employee being subjected to a brutal robbery.

Close The comedy quartet Klyderne attempts to create "a typical Danish film" through a long series of absurd sketches, parodies, musical interludes,...

At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of...

Documentary about the making of Lars von Trier's 1991 film.

Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to...

A young Jewish artist has shunned his heritage. Upon the realization that he is alone, doubting humanity's willingness to extend help to one another,...

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left...

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and...

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video...

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

Marie Berthelius and Roger Narbonne conference call Lars von Trier, Win Wenders, Lone Scherfig, and Jean-Marc Barr and are also linked by digital...

The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the...

Jesper Jargil's documentary portrait of a bizarre piece of Danish experimental theater directed by Lars von Trier.

In 2005 the cast and crew with Lars Von Trier gatherd to talk about Lars Von Trier's Dogma film The Idiots.

A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".

A gripping portrait of the dramatic, extravagant and ego-centric actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998) who would always be at the center of...

Quixotic Martino Sclavi dives deep into the Danish film scene to uncover the truth behind the Dogme 95 Manifesto, along the way the film...

Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The...

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Dancer in the Dark" by Lars von Trier.

Making film wears down director Lars von Trier, but he is not able to live without them. In the documentary film this Danish auteur’s all-consuming...

It is the young Christian Tafdrup's (Tafdrup himself) greatest wish to become a real film director. He joins the reputable company Zentropa, where he...

Following the career of Björk, this documentary looks at her early musical career with local icelandic bands, her acclaimed stint in The Sugarcubes,...

Shot in Denmark in 1999, the documentary features exclusive interviews with the creators of the filmmaking movement Dogma 95: Lars von Trier, Thomas...

Documentary on "The Idiots."

Documentary about the filming and behind-the-scenes of Manderlay.

Summer vacation. But Lars remain in town for his parents must work. One day as he bikes around, he hears a scream from a garden.

The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in...

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. The story of the company Cinema Without Borders...

Documentary following the controversy of the 1988 film THE IDIOTS, which showed a group of middle class people pretending to be mentally impaired....

Behind the scenes documentary on The Idiots

Documentary on Dancer in the Dark

Part of the exhibition 'Descendant - curated by Lars von Trier' at Willumsen's Museum