Chantal Akerman Movies

Belgian director Chantal Akerman struggles to overcome her laziness in the name of making a film about the subject.

In this unfinished work, a young mother, her little girl, as well as a friend of the mother's, spend the summer in a villa. The mother shares her...

In 1940s Malaysia, European merchant Kaspar Almayer is obsessed with finding a treasure to secure his daughter's future. His dreams fall victim to...

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

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

Single woman Charlotte tries to write erotic fiction despite not having any sensual experience.

Akerman, by using 360° camera pans, explores the space of a small room like a succession of still lifes : a chair, fruits on a table, solitary...

Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of...

Chantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah, and listens to their family stories. Between...

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...

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

Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the...

What a revelation and a privilege it is to see Chantal Akerman at work. Its French title a pun, this film offers behind-the-scenes footage from the...

New York City's Monterey is a residence hotel, whose inhabitants are older and primarily live alone. The camera, usually stationery, observes the...

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,...

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

A sensitivity to sounds coming from the activities of an unwelcome guest in the close quarters of an apartment is only one important component in...