Chantal Akerman Movies

The main character, Michèle, spends the hour discussing her views of life with some old and new friends, and tries to understand her own...

An analysis of the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), an experimental and innovative artist, both in content and form, who has...

Invented by the post-New Wave, the exercise is well-known: put a filmmaker in the frame, make him talk about his career, evoke his admirations,...

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.

Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers...

Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with...

El Pampero records Chantal Akerman's visit to Argentina in 2005.

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

A portrait of pianist Alfred Brendel performing and analysing Franz Schubert's final three sonatas.

The short documentary starts with Wieder-Atherton telling the story of how she came to fall in love; first with music in general, and then with the...

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping...

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in...

An exploration of Jewish American identity in a multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. A series of first-person addresses delivered by a...

Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific...

Interview with the Belgian director discussing her films from the 1970s and her mother’s influence on her work.

Presented in 2 parts, this 83 minute piece documents Wieder-Atherton's idea to do a set of pieces from across central and eastern Europe, including...

Suburbs of Brussels. A young woman locks herself in the kitchen of her apartment, as she blissfully devotes herself to dismantling the household...

In this recently rediscovered home movie, three women—Chantal Akerman, Babette Mangolte, and Epp Kotkas—share a precious moment of...

Vladimir is an impeccably dressed student who wants to become a spy. In pursuit of this goal he learns all he can about espionage, learning codes and...

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André...