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."
Benjamin Ree has 18 screen credits in a career dating back to 2012. Signature works include The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, Magnus, The Greatest Illusion. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
