An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.

A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try...

Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different...

A director and a screenwriter write a screenplay together about a globally spreading epidemic. Unbeknownst to them, an outbreak develops around them...

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...

This film depicts the intense drama that takes place during the making of Dogville. Lars von Trier and Nicole Kidman work through this creative...

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...

Danish documentary from TV2 in 1991.

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff...

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, 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...

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

A focuses on 1957, one of the most prolific years for the Swedish director. During the year he shot two films, opened two of his most celebrated...

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

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...

Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or...

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...

With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Von Trier plays himself, berating and violently hammering a loudmouthed businessman (Jacques Frantz) to death during the premiere of Manderlay.

Documentary on Lars von Trier