Lars von Trier

“A film should be like a rock in the shoe.” Despite the controversy surrounding his figure, Lars von Trier is a key author in the international film scene of recent times. In 1979 he began his studies at the Danish National Film School, where he experimented and made award-winning films at festivals such as the Munich Film Festival. His first feature film as a graduate was "The Element of Crime" (1983), which won him the Grand Technical Achievement Award and the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The following two films, "Epidemic" (1987) and "Europa" (1991), complete his European Trilogy and once again earn him recognition from the French festival. Together with Thomas Vinterberg, fed up with the production scheme of the mainstream cinema and the superfluous artifice of Hollywood, they propose a return to the essential bases of the seventh art with an urgency to purify it, which is how "Dogma 95" arises; a movement and manifesto with rules in search of an avant-garde cinema in