Eskil Vogt

Writing

Eskil Vogt

Born 1974-10-31 · Oslo, Norway

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 at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Worst Person in the World poster
7.4

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.

The Worst Person in the World

2021

Sentimental Value poster
7.5

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.

Sentimental Value

2025

The Innocents poster
6.9

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.

The Innocents

2021

The Innocents poster
6.9

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.

The Innocents

2021

Oslo, August 31st poster
7.5

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.

Oslo, August 31st

2011

Thelma poster
6.8

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

Thelma

2017

Louder Than Bombs poster
6.5

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 elder 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.

Louder Than Bombs

2015

Blind poster
6.3

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.

Blind

2014

Blind poster
6.3

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.

Blind

2014

Reprise poster
7.1

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

Reprise

2006

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NR

Plot TBA; described as a psychological thriller about art, power and the blurred boundaries between memory and truth.

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No artwork available
NR

Plot TBA; described as a psychological thriller about art, power and the blurred boundaries between memory and truth.

Untitled

Copenhagen Does Not Exist poster
5.8

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

Copenhagen Does Not Exist

2023

Pieta poster
5.1

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.

Pieta

2000

Procter poster
5.8

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.

Procter

2002

Still poster
6.5

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.

Still

2001

Seer believer poster
NR

A small film about looking back on his childhood and discover that it looks like back in deg.Musikkvideo made ​​of super 8mm footage of the singer in The White Birch , while he goes from infancy to adult alder.R

Seer believer

2006