Ben Rivers
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A London-based artist and filmmaker. He has created around 40 short and feature films that blur the line between documentary and fiction, often focusing on people living on the margins of society. Rivers won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Two Years at Sea. His solo exhibitions have been held in Milan, Chicago, Hamburg, and London, and a complete retrospective of his work was presented at the National Gallery of Jeu de Paume in Paris. At the 34th Message to Man Festival, he received the Silver Centaur prize for his film Bogancloch.
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Mare's Nest (2026)
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Bogancloch (2025)
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The Wind, One Brilliant Day (2026)
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The Hunchback (2016)
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Slow Action (2018)
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The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015)
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Trees Down Here (2018)
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Ghost Strata (2019)
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Look Then Below (2019)
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Urth (2016)
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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
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The Rare Event (2018)
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The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014)
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Two Years at Sea (2012)
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The Hyrcynium Wood (2005)
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Krabi, 2562 (2019)
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Close Up (2025)
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10 Min (2019)
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May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of all Your Many Days as it Will be your Last (2009)
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Experiments in Terror 3 (2009)
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Origin of the Species (2008)
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Mohammed Mrabet (2015)
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The Ambassadors (2018)
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House (2007)
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The Creation as We Saw It (2012)
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There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay (2015)
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Things (2014)
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Dreaming In The Dark (2018)
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Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead (2013)
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The Minotaur (2022)
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The Shape of Things (2016)
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Astika (2006)
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The House Was Quiet (2020)
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Sack Barrow (2011)
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Alice (2009)
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Terror (2007)
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Sørdal (2008)
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Ijen / London (2022)
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Phantoms of a Libertine (2012)
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More Than Just A Dram (2012)
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Now, at Last! (2018)
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A World Rattled of Habit (2008)
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The Coming Race (2006)
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This Is My Land (2007)
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The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe (2005)
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Ah, Liberty! (2008)
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The Big Sink (1993)
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After Work (2022)
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I Know Where I'm Going (2009)
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Old Dark House (2003)
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Jack (2005)
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We the People (2004)
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What Means Something (2015)
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A Distant Episode (2015)
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