THE DOGME FOUNDERS:

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?

LARS VON TRIER

After The Idiots, von Trier wowed Cannes with lo-fi musical follow-up

Dancer In The Dark, which picked up the Palme D’Or, but later soured his relationship after ill-advised Nazi gags at the Melancholia press conference. Last seen with

Nymphomaniac (recently rereleased in a five-and-a-half hour Director’s Cut) he’s promised he’s returning to TV, the scene of arguably his greatest artistic triumph, blackcomedy series The Kingdom.

THOMAS VINTERBERG

Lambasted for his pretentious anti-Dogme follow-up, It’s All About

Love, Vinterberg directed von Trier’s script for flop western Dear Wendy, then hit rock bottom as both his marriage and finances collapsed. He’s clawed back respectability with junkie tale Submarino, the Cannesfeted The Hunt and the recently released Far From The Madding

Crowd. Next up for Vinterberg is The Commune, inspired by his Danish childhood.

SØREN KRAGH-JACOBSEN

The oldest member of the group by almost a decade, Jacobsen won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale for

Mifune but, in truth, never quite followed up that achievement with anything at the same level. Working in Danish television – he’s directed two episodes of political drama Borgen – his feature film credits include political thriller

What No One Knows and Sofie Gråbøl-starring crime drama The

Hour Of The Lynx.

KRISTIAN LEVRING

Two years after The King Is Alive, Levring reunited with one of its stars, Janet McTeer, for Malaysian thriller

The Intended. Since then, he’s managed to make two films – one every six years. Set in the world of drug trials, Fear Me Not featured

Festen’s Ulrich Thomsen and Dogme regular Paprika Steen, while new release The Salvation is a return to English-language film, a western starring Dogme alumni Mads Mikkelsen.