Agnès Varda

Ydessa, the Bears and etc. (2026)

Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art all comprising a photograph of living persons in the company of one or several teddy bears) had puzzled Agnès Varda so much that she decided to go to Toronto ...

Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison (2025)

Documentary film about the iconic 1960s-era poet, songwriter, and vocalist of the Doors. Unlike prior Morrison media, Before the End's focus is on the humanity behind the hype, including Jim's formative years. The documentary features exclusive interviews ...

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera (2023)

She worked with the world's greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a "cold blonde actress", thanks to great intervie ...

Viva Varda! (2023)

A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 (2022)

Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini an ...

Deneuve, la reine Catherine (2022)

She is said to be cold, secretive and mysterious. She has the reputation of not letting anything of her intimate thoughts, her private life, her joys as well as her torments show through. She managed to protect her family, her loves, her choices from the c ...

The World in Shots (2021)

"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people who reflect on the visible and invisible things of the world: Cecilia Mangini, unstoppable ninety years old, ...

Jim Morrison: The End (2021)

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson. The chronicle of the last months of the life of the poet, singer and charismatic leader of the American ba ...

150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement (2021)

A Woman Watches People. ...

La Alameda 2018 (2020)

The Invention of Chris Marker (2020)

A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker. ...

Harumi (2019)

In the hills of Los Angeles the reclusive, stylish and enigmatic 96-year-old Harumi Taniguchi spent decades painting, writing poetry and dancing in her home designed by architect Richard Neutra. ...

Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma (2019)

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018)

This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy. ...

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and for ...

Quinqui Stars (2018)

QUINQUI STARS begins in the years of the transformations that took place between the 70s and the 80s in the peripheral neighborhoods of Madrid that affected many young people and drove them towards delinquency. ...

#JR (2018)

At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris' suburb riots of 2005 for his portraits of young people, his collages have adorned the galleries of the Louvre, the Pompidou Center, the Pantheon, the National Asse ...

Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer (2018)

An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with a majority of users in the 18-24 age range, followed photography and film as her medium of choice. ...

Chance Is the Best Assistant (2018)

An interview with Agnes Varda and JR. ...

A Visual History with Agnès Varda (2017)

Agnès Varda shares her career and life story on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017: from her childhood and early influences to her life with Jacques Demy, and of course a lifetime of images, her unique artistic journey as a photographer, film ...

Faces Places (2017)

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. ...

EXPRMNTL (2016)

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second 'World Festival of Film and the Arts' in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. ...

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts (2014)

Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the world! When she arrives at the 65. Cannes film festival, she has face the accomplished facts: David, her in ...

Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)

Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinémathèque Française—recounting his influence on their lives, his role in preserving film history, and his enduring impact on world cinema. ...

The 8th Floor (2014)

On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David Lynch, Patti Smith, William Eggleston, Takeshi Kitano, Ron Mueck, Jean Michel Alberola, Agnès Varda and Misha ...

Cinéast(e)s (2013)

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to t ...

The 3 Lives of Agnès (2012)

The 3 lives of Agnès Varda: photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. ...

Two Street Artists (2012)

This profile of street artists Jérôme Mesnager and Miss Tic was shot by director Agnès Varda in Paris between 2006 and 2012. ...

In Chris Marker's Studio (2011)

Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds. ...

Americano (2011)

A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola. ...

Agnès Varda: From Here to There (2011)

Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene. ...

The First Interview (2011)

In the world's first media interview, shot in Paris in August 1886, the great photographer Nadar interviews the famous scientist and sceptic Chevreul on his 100th birthday. In their own words - originally recorded in shorthand - they discuss photography, c ...

Great Directors (2009)

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismai ...

Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story (2008)

Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their experiences making the film, as well as show Varda wove her grief over the loss of her husband, Jacques Demy, into other projects. ...

Souvenirs and Evocations (2008)

A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema. ...

The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, V ...

Shooting Women (2008)

Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new generation of camerawomen's visions. ...

Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (2008)

Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg". ...

The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany (2008)

In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A. with a question: would I agree to let her film my L.A. story? The video you are about to watch is the story of our first encounter in Paris in 1996 and in the yea ...

From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects (2007)

In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet and Alain Berlaga. ...

Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD (2007)

Agnes Varda introduces a collection of her short films released to DVD. ...

Women Behind the Camera (2007)

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children's laughter, in a way that has never been seen before. Based on a book by Alexis Krasilovsky, the film tells the stories of camerawomen surviving the ...

Some Widows of Noirmoutier (2006)

A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'. The installation 'Les veuves de Noirmoutier' (or 'The Widows of Noirmoutier') had various women filmed by Varda, young and old, who spoke about their wi ...

More So-called Caryatids (2005)

A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various caryatids to be found in Paris. ...

Mag Bodard, un destin (2005)

Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005. ...

Not Like Before (2005)

From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we asked one and the same question of various people we met on our journeys, including friends: "Do you remember a moment in your life when something really change ...

Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes (2005)

More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged ac ...

Where is Sara Gómez? (2005)

Born in 1943, Sara Gómez studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of great intelligence, independence and generosity, she was a revolutionary filmmaker with intersecting concerns about ...

Rue Daguerre in 2005 (2005)

Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier in Daguerréotypes (1976). ...

Bread, Painting, Accordion (2005)

This short profile of Agnès Varda's longtime bakery and accordion shop was shot by the filmmaker in 2005. ...

The Vanishing Lion (2003)

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic's apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement). Clarisse and Laraze meet daily, but one day Lazare disap ...

The Story of an Old Lady (2003)

A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 1985 film "Vagabond". ...

Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments (2003)

18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary which includes interviews with the cast. ...

The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)

Agnès Varda's follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the world of those who find purpose and beauty in the refuse of society, revisiting many of the original film's subjects. ...

The Truth About Charlie (2002)

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has be ...

Tribute to Zgougou the Cat (2002)

A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda's cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou. ...

Léaud l'unique (2001)

Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film clips and contributions from directors and actors he has worked with. ...

Janela da Alma (2001)

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link t ...

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema (2000)

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort ...

The Gleaners and I (2000)

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on findin ...

The World of Jacques Demy (1995)

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes. ...

Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South (1994)

"The Poor Hunter of the South" is the title of the film Stavros Tornes never got to make, rightfully featured alongside his name on this documentary by Stavros Kaplanidis ("Canteen", "Play it Again, Christos"). The film traces his imagery, listens for his ...

The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort. ...

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave (1992)

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal pl ...

Jacquot (1991)

Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary. ...

Pictures of Europe (1990)

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce's feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. ...

Calling the Shots (1988)

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

Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988)

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin's fortieth birthday—a mile ...

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know... (1986)

Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque, presenting a contrast between the famous stairs from the place along with classic film images also revolving around stairs. ...

Ulysse (1986)

At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary. ...

The So-Called Caryatids (1984)

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc. ...

One Minute for One Image (1983)

TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image) ...

Documenteur (1982)

After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son. ...

Mur Murs (1982)

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city's many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, ...

Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness (1978)

A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. ...

Daguerréotypes (1978)

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker's home for more than 50 years. ...

Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda (1977)

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film. ...

One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They ...

Women Reply (1975)

What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera. ...

La Vie filmée (1975)

An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946 and 1953. The images shot in the immediate post-war period bear witness to the difficulties of resuming life dail ...

Nausicaa (1971)

A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available i ...

Viva Varda! (1970)

Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French television in 1970. ...

Lions Love (1969)

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood. ...

Far from Vietnam (1967)

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. ...

Uncle Yanco (1967)

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sa ...

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and roman ...

The Birth of Children of Paradise (1967)

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors. ...

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même (1964)

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean ...

Hello Cubans (1963)

A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the ...

La Mélangite (1960)

Unfinished film project from Agnès Varda (c. ...

All the World's Memory (1956)

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being. ...

Ydessa, the Bears and etc. (2026)

Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art all comprising a photograph of living persons in the company of one or several teddy bears) had puzzled Agnès Varda so much that she decided to go to Toronto ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 (2022)

Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini an ...

Faces Places (2017)

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. ...

Les 3 Boutons (2015)

"Miss Jasmine! I have a package for you!" The 14-year-old girl with braces takes a break from milking the goat. Her local postman has delivered a surprise. She opens it up. Out floats a magical magenta ball dress ten times her teenage size. "I am curious," ...

Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)

Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinémathèque Française—recounting his influence on their lives, his role in preserving film history, and his enduring impact on world cinema. ...

Un salut à Henri Langlois (2014)

On the occasion of the Henri Langlois Centenary (2014), Agnès Varda recounts a memory. ...

The 3 Lives of Agnès (2012)

The 3 lives of Agnès Varda: photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. ...

20 Little Films (2012)

Since 1995, the Viennale has invited renowned directors to create short, one-minute films as personal contributions to the festival. Ranging from home movies to political essays, musical sketches to abstract studies, these "little films" form a unique anth ...

Two Street Artists (2012)

This profile of street artists Jérôme Mesnager and Miss Tic was shot by director Agnès Varda in Paris between 2006 and 2012. ...

In Chris Marker's Studio (2011)

Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds. ...

Americano (2011)

A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola. ...

Agnès Varda: From Here to There (2011)

Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene. ...

Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story (2008)

Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their experiences making the film, as well as show Varda wove her grief over the loss of her husband, Jacques Demy, into other projects. ...

Souvenirs and Evocations (2008)

A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema. ...

The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, V ...

The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany (2008)

In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A. with a question: would I agree to let her film my L.A. story? The video you are about to watch is the story of our first encounter in Paris in 1996 and in the yea ...

Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD (2007)

Agnes Varda introduces a collection of her short films released to DVD. ...

Some Widows of Noirmoutier (2006)

A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'. The installation 'Les veuves de Noirmoutier' (or 'The Widows of Noirmoutier') had various women filmed by Varda, young and old, who spoke about their wi ...

More So-called Caryatids (2005)

A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various caryatids to be found in Paris. ...

The Music Festival (2005)

Daguerréotypes filmmaker Agnès Varda shot this footage of an outdoor concert in Paris's 14th arrondissement in 2005. ...

Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes (2005)

More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged ac ...

Cleo's Real Itinerary Through Paris (2005)

In this short film from 2005, Pierre-William Glenn, shooting from the back of a motorcycle, retraces the steps Cléo takes through Paris in CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7. ...

Rue Daguerre in 2005 (2005)

Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier in Daguerréotypes (1976). ...

Bread, Painting, Accordion (2005)

This short profile of Agnès Varda's longtime bakery and accordion shop was shot by the filmmaker in 2005. ...

Daguerreotypes, Photographics Objects (2005)

Daguerréotypes filmmaker Agnès Varda made this short video of a daguerreotype exhibit in 2005. ...

Viennale Walzer (2004)

Viennale-Trailer 2004 ...

Cinévardaphoto (2004)

A theatrically-released compilation of three Varda shorts: "Salut les Cubains," "Ulysse" and "Ydessa, les ours et etc. ...

The Vanishing Lion (2003)

An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic's apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement). Clarisse and Laraze meet daily, but one day Lazare disap ...

The Story of an Old Lady (2003)

A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 1985 film "Vagabond". ...

Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments (2003)

18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary which includes interviews with the cast. ...

Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes (2003)

A documentary directed by Birkin's friend, who produced the Birkin's Arabesque concert at the Odeon in Paris as well as published a book of photos of Birkin. ...

The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)

Agnès Varda's follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the world of those who find purpose and beauty in the refuse of society, revisiting many of the original film's subjects. ...

Tribute to Zgougou the Cat (2002)

A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda's cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou. ...

The Gleaners and I (2000)

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on findin ...

The World of Jacques Demy (1995)

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes. ...

One Hundred and One Nights (1995)

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. ...

The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort. ...

Jacquot (1991)

Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary. ...

Kung-Fu Master! (1988)

A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age? ...

Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988)

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin's fortieth birthday—a mile ...

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know... (1986)

Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque, presenting a contrast between the famous stairs from the place along with classic film images also revolving around stairs. ...

Ulysse (1986)

At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary. ...

Vagabond (1985)

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs ...

The So-Called Caryatids (1984)

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc. ...

Seven Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom, for Sale (1984)

An unusual visit to a large, empty apartment. But is it empty or not? Maybe a family has lived there or is going to live there. Maybe a young girl is going to escape from there. Maybe some of the old-timers who lived there never left. The walls themselves ...

One Minute for One Image (1983)

TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image) ...

Documenteur (1982)

After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son. ...

Mur Murs (1982)

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city's many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, ...

Lady Oscar (1979)

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she ...

Daguerréotypes (1978)

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker's home for more than 50 years. ...

One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They ...

Quelques femmes bulles (1977)

The Pleasure of Love in Iran (1976)

An Iranian man and a French woman stroll around the city of Isfahan, Iran and find that their love is mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of the city's mosques. ...

Women Reply (1975)

What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera. ...

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman. ...

Nausicaa (1971)

A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available i ...

Lions Love (1969)

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood. ...

Black Panthers (1968)

A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America's ...

Far from Vietnam (1967)

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. ...

Uncle Yanco (1967)

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sa ...

Elsa the Rose (1966)

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa's youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa. ...

The Creatures (1966)

A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book. ...

Christmas Carole (1966)

35mm test scenes from a 1966 Agnès Varda project. Distributors and producers were unimpressed. Three friends try to earn money decorating café windows for Christmas. A moral fable, loosely based on Dickens. ...

Happiness (1965)

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a d ...

The Children of Museum (1964)

The workshop of painting, modeling and sculpture for children under fifteen, at the Museum of Decorative Arts, rue de Rivoli (1st arrondissement). Pierre Belvès, creator of the workshop, animates the work of the children. A report from the magazine "Chron ...

Hello Cubans (1963)

A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the ...

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid véri ...

Fiancés on the Bridge (1962)

A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the ...

La Mélangite (1960)

Unfinished film project from Agnès Varda (c. ...

Along the Coast (1958)

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women ...

O Seasons, O Castles (1958)

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau. ...

Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958)

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman. ...

La Cocotte d'azur (1958)

A short film made with the film end rolls of 'Du côté de la côte'. ...

La Pointe Courte (1956)

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the ...