
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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The Hunchback (2016)
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Krabi, 2562 (2019)
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The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015)
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Ghost Strata (2019)
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Trees Down Here (2018)
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The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014)
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Look Then Below (2019)
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Experiments in Terror 3 (2009)
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Two Years at Sea (2012)
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The Hyrcynium Wood (2005)
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Now, at Last! (2018)
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A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
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I Know Where I'm Going (2009)
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Dreaming In The Dark (2018)
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10 Min (2019)
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Terror (2007)
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This Is My Land (2007)
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Bogancloch (2025)
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Astika (2006)
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Urth (2016)
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Phantoms of a Libertine (2012)
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What Means Something (2015)
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Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead (2013)
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Slow Action (2018)
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The Ambassadors (2018)
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Things (2014)
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The House Was Quiet (2020)
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Origin of the Species (2008)
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The Big Sink (1993)
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We the People (2004)
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House (2007)
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A World Rattled of Habit (2008)
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The Coming Race (2006)
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Sack Barrow (2011)
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Alice (2009)
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More Than Just A Dram (2012)
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The Rare Event (2018)
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Ah, Liberty! (2008)
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The Creation as We Saw It (2012)
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Mohammed Mrabet (2015)
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Sørdal (2008)
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After Work (2022)
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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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Old Dark House (2003)
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There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay (2015)
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The Shape of Things (2016)
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Jack (2005)
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A Distant Episode (2015)
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Ijen / London (2022)
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The Bomb with a Man in His Shoe (2005)
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The Minotaur (2022)
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