Benjamin Ree

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