Melancholia was directed by a Danish screenwriter.
Melancholia is a 2011 science-fiction drama-psychological thriller film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst , Charlotte Gainsbourg , Alexander Skarsgård , Cameron Spurr , and Kiefer Sutherland . Tobias Lindholm ( born 1977 ) is a Danish screenwriter and film director best known for gritty moral dramas .