Eskil Vogt

Writer

October 31, 1974 (51 years)

Oslo, Norway

Biography

Eskil Vogt (born 1974) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. His films include Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011), Louder Than Bombs (2015), Thelma (2017), and The Worst Person in the World (2021), all of which were directed by Joachim Trier from scripts written by Vogt and Trier. He also wrote and directed the drama film Blind, which was screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and received the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. The film was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label a…

Filmography

7.5

Sentimental Value

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

7.4

The Worst Person in the World

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

6.8

Thelma

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

6.9

The Innocents

Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.

7.8

Flee

Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.

7.1

Reprise

Fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, two competitive friends endure the pangs of love, depression, and burgeoning careers.

7.5

Oslo, August 31st

A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.

6.5

Louder Than Bombs

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

7.2

Sick of Myself

Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.

6.3

Blind

Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home—a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. After a while, Ingrid starts to feel the presence of her husband in the flat when he is supposed to be at work. At the same time, her lonely neighbor who has grown tired of even the most extreme pornography shifts his attention to a woman across the street. Ingrid knows about this but her real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over.

6.5

Still

An ambitious short in which the story plays out in the mind of an old man about to die from a heart attack in a public park.

5.8

Procter

When Charles Procter witnesses a stranger burn to death he doesn’t expect to become part of the gruesome event. Then he discovers a video camera has captured him at the scene. What he discovers on the tape is more disturbing than the stranger’s death.

5.1

Pieta

Julian tells the story of the loss of his best friend Jacob. Years later, he goes back to the place where Jacob died and finds himself caught up in a cathartic experience with Rebecca, Julian's mother.

5.8

Copenhagen Does Not Exist

Copenhagen, Denmark. While young Ida remains missing, Sander is interrogated by two men in an empty apartment.

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