Caroline Champetier

Belle (2025)

A couple have a peaceful existence in a small provincial town. He is a teacher and she runs an opticians practical. Their life is turned upside when Belle, a friend's daughter who is lodging with them, is found dead in her room. The husband becomes the pr ...

Widow Clicquot (2024)

After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen. ...

It's Not Me (2024)

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author's filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time. ...

A Family (2024)

Award-winning French writer Christine Angot goes on a business trip to Strasbourg where her father lived before dying several years ago. It is the city where she met him for the first time at the age of 13, and where he sexually abused her over the followi ...

The Damned Don't Cry (2023)

Fatima-Zahra and her teenage son Selim move from place to place, forever trying to outrun the latest scandal she's caught up in. When Selim discovers the truth about their past, Fatima-Zahra vows to make a fresh start. In Tangier, new opportunities promise ...

Man in Black (2023)

Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China's most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. With excerpts from his Symphonies, he revisits for this film s ...

By Heart (2022)

It's summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov's unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are premiering at Avignon's Festival. When they leave backstage to stand out on ...

Annette (2021)

In present-day Los Angeles, controversial stand-up comedian Henry McHenry and internationally renowned opera singer Ann Defrasnoux form the façade of a happy couple in the spotlight. Ann gives birth to a baby girl named Annette, who possesses an exception ...

Looking for Rohmer (2018)

The first homosexual love story themed movie to receive approval for theatrical release in China. The film follows the initial meeting of, and the subsequent secret relationship between Zhao Jie and Rohmer. They decide to travel to Tibet together. During t ...

The Guardians (2017)

In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops. ...

Napalm (2017)

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invited to North Korea after the devastating Korean war and a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross hospital, ...

Pawn Street (2016)

In Torino, a bittersweet crowd is bringing its own belongings to a pawn shop, waiting for a ransom or the final auction. Between the thousands of faces that tell the human inventory of the crisis, three stories intertwine unconsciously in the thin line of ...

The Innocents (2016)

Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. ...

Nuytten/Film (2016)

A meeting between two friends: the cinematographer Caroline Champetier shoots a documentary about cinematographer Bruno Nuytten, making a film about his gesture and the relation between film art and craftwork. ...

Looking for Her (2016)

Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before. ...

The Art Dealer (2015)

A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII. ...

Being 14 (2015)

The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school. ...

The Price of Fame (2015)

A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom. ...

The Last of the Unjust (2013)

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last p ...

Les mots comme des pierres (2013)

Berthe Morisot (2012)

At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Her parents do not see things from the same angle. Then Berthe meets Edouard Manet, who takes an interest in this young artist apprentice wh ...

Hannah Arendt (2012)

A portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of "the banality of evil." After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly ...

Holy Motors (2012)

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes ...

Of Gods and Men (2010)

A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to cons ...

The White Line (2010)

Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and women. Sylvain in full adolescence, feels the need to get closer to his father. On a whim, both of them leave ...

Premier anniversaire (2010)

One year after the death of his father, a young boy makes the journey to province to meet his grandparents who he does not know, to try to convince them to give him his father's ashes. With his father's friend, he looks for the right place to release his ...

The Three-way Wedding (2010)

When a famous playwright invites the cast of his new play - including his enchanting assistant, his ex-wife and her new lover - to his country estate, a series of seductions and surprising alliances ensue. ...

The Karski Report (2010)

A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. ...

Villa Amalia (2009)

Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself. ...

Heart of a Tiger (2009)

Somewhere between a diary and a filmed letter made while Caroline Champetier was shooting Benoît Jacquot's film L'Intouchable in India. ...

Nanayo (2008)

Saiko travels to Thailand but she jumps out of the cab after knowing the driver's intentions. However, her life changes after she meets Greg. ...

Tokyo! (2008)

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to ...

The Killer (2008)

Leo Zimmermann, a business man from Paris dotes on his daughter. He proposes a strange offer to his killer when he is in town to execute Zimmermann. ...

One Day You'll Understand (2008)

A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. ...

Capri (2008)

Sympathy for the Lobster (2007)

The actors of Avanzi reunite after 15 years in Su Pallosu, a small village in Sardinia. They have decided to put together a show to support the cause of the local fishermen who are having great difficulty because of fish depopulation. ...

Terror's Advocate (2007)

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants int ...

Once Upon a Time... 'Tess' (2007)

Television documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film "Tess. ...

The Beloved (2007)

Arnaud Desplechin documents the selling of his family home. ...

The Untouchable (2006)

On her birthday, a young actress learns her father is a Hindu man her mother met in India. She decamps to Varanasi to find him. ...

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City' (2006)

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City". ...

A Perfect Couple (2006)

A French couple has been living in Lisbon for years, and they return to Paris for a friend's wedding. They announce to another friend they are having dinner with that they are going to split. ...

Car Wash (2005)

During the time it takes for their vehicle to go through the car wash, a couple stands outside, exchanging some apparently harmless dialogue. Once the car is through the wash, we see them get back into the car, where their daughter had remained, and leave ...

The Young Lieutenant (2005)

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective. ...

Quand nous étions punk (2004)

The day begins. Louis, 25, takes a cab to Roissy airport to welcome Lacey, who's arriving from New York. ...

Promised Land (2004)

"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of one girl who most f ...

À tout de suite (2004)

A girl from bourgeoisie discovers the pleasures of banditism, following her lover in his lifestyle. ...

Princesse Marie (2004)

The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud. ...

La nuit sera longue (2003)

It is the story of a prohibited and perverted identification: how an eight-year-old boy, entrusted to the care of his mother since the separation of the parents, meets and looks at his father, all day long. ...

Hot House (2003)

Michel, a young man idolized by his mother, falls in love with Madeleine. What he does not know is that the young woman is already the mistress of his father, Georges. ...

LES VISAGES (2003)

Nine perfectly silent faces follow each other in a static shot. These faces do not speak. They think, they think about their life. Will we be able to capture the flow of their thoughts by filming them? ...

The War in Paris (2002)

In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance. ...

Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)

Documentary interview with Yehuda Lerner, who at 17 participated in a prisoner revolt at the Nazi-run Sobibor extermination camp. Originally filmed for inclusion in Lanzmann's 1985 documentary Shoah. ...

H Story (2001)

An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour". ...

Cet amour-là (2001)

Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords. ...

Carrément à l'ouest (2001)

In Paris, where he wields his money scams, Alex has an unexpected encounter with two girls: Fred, who's nothing to do with his world and who he falls for straight away, and Sylvia – sweet, but lonely, Sylvia. To test Alex, Fred devises a curious game of ...

To Mathieu (2001)

Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and ...

The Wind of the Night (1999)

A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s. ...

Marée haute (1999)

She worked all summer in a small restaurant on a Normandy beach. It's the end of the season, season of work, season of love ; he dumped her, in any case it looks like it. She has good reasons for talking to herself, all the more so since there's hardly any ...

The School of Flesh (1998)

Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to re ...

Alice and Martin (1998)

Martin, the illegitimate son of an industrialist and a hairdresser, was sent to live with his wealthy father in the countryside as a young boy. Alice is a musician living with Martin's half-brother in Paris. When Martin shows up at Alice's door after fleei ...

Dry Cleaning (1997)

A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out. ...

Love Reinvented (1997)

Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be ...

Ponette (1996)

After losing her mother in a car accident that leaves her with a broken arm, 4-year-old Ponette struggles with anguish and fear. Left by her father with a caring aunt and her children, Ponette grieves, secretly hoping her mother will somehow come back. Con ...

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past a ...

Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1996)

Benoit has his life all planned out before him. Unfortunately, he had totally forgotten to include his military service. Inevitably called into duty, he tries everything he can to avoid it, eventually launching into a hedonistic lifestyle—out of control ...

To Have (Or Not) (1995)

Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic possibilities ensue. ...

A Single Girl (1995)

A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend. ...

Écrire (1994)

When Duras saw 'La mort du jeune aviateur anglais', she told Benoît Jacquot that the film was about him, not her. "She treated me like a thief. So I offered to make another film, where she could say whatever she wanted about her life as a writer. That's h ...

Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man's quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behavi ...

The Children Play Russian (1993)

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoye ...

C'est de l'art (1993)

This series, assembled in a film, presents the singular view of contemporary artists on major works of art history. The words of these free spirits make each work see each work as a dynamic form, in the process of becoming, crossed by multiple energies. Th ...

The Sentinel (1992)

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage. ...

The Annunciation of Marie (1991)

During the Crusades, Vercors betroths his beautiful daughter Violaine to Jacques. She cannot marry Jacques because she has contracted leprosy, so Jacques marries her younger sister Mara. Jacques and Mara's first child dies soon after its birth, and Mara be ...

I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (1991)

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer. ...

Adrien's Sleep (1991)

Marie lives with her daughter in a large Parisian apartment. She rents a room to a student: Adrien. ...

The Disenchanted (1990)

A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life. ...

Les dernières heures du millénaire (1990)

A young woman leaves the man she lives with in the middle of the night. All the next day, she searches for a place to sleep, in vain. ...

The 15 Year Old Girl (1989)

Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Thomas insists on bringing his friend Juliette, a girl of his own age with whom he enjoys a clo ...

Gang of Four (1989)

Anna, Joyce, Claude, and Cécile are four young actresses sharing a Paris apartment while attending intense acting workshops led by their demanding teacher Constance. As they rehearse scenes and navigate the tensions of living together, their personal live ...

The Power of Speech (1988)

Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the ori ...

On s'est tous défilé (1988)

A rare short done in much of the same vein of "Puissance de la Parole", where there is no shortage of cross-dissolve and rapid montage effects. Here, the sources are between fashion clips, street footage, and a number of paintings, to which Godard narrates ...

Closed (1988)

This commercial entry directed by veteran Jean-Luc Godard promoting jeans company Marithé et François Girbaud presents a couple appearing on a beach in repeated moments over and over with some variations during their exchange and their dialogues. ...

Quand je serai jeune (1988)

May 68. While, outside, people are demonstrating, a man is finishing the editing of Baisers volés. ...

Keep Your Right Up (1987)

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of ...

Women in Love (1987)

A gaggle of young women gather at the seaside to celebrate their friend's birthday and help mend her recently broken heart. As the women confide in each other and trade thoughts on love, a young American man catches their attention, and they begin to engag ...

Aria (1987)

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria. ...

Armide (1987)

In 1986, the director and producer Don Boyd approached ten of the world's greatest directors and invited them to make a short film set to an operatic aria of their choice. Together, their contributions formed the movie Aria. Here, the legendary French film ...

Double Gentlemen (1986)

In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one's mature years — this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois Stevenin, the director) and Leo (Yves Alonso) are old frien ...

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)

Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a once-fashionable producer who is now going through a bad patch, finding it increasingl ...

August 15th (1986)

In a villa by the sea, in August, a woman spends her vacation with another young woman, her son and an au pair. She awaits the return of her husband who comes to join her; the au pair is also waiting for this return... ...

The Book of Mary (1985)

Anne-Marie Miéville, frequent collaborator of Jean-Luc Godard, made this partner piece to Godard's own 'Je vous salue, Marie'. Marie, eleven years old, is experiencing difficult times. Her parents will separate. The perception of her universe is profoundl ...

Pauline-épaulettes (1985)

A César award nominated short drama. ...

Class Relations (1984)

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control. ...

Toute une nuit (1982)

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

Le Pont du Nord (1982)

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotte ...

Too Early / Too Late (1982)

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt's history of peasant struggle a ...

Alix's Pictures (1982)

Alix Cléo Roubaud, a photographer, describes her images to Eustache's son Boris. An "essay in the shape of a hoax", Eustache's last film wittily questions the relationship between showing and telling as it gradually shifts Alix's narration out of sync wit ...

The Woman Next Door (1981)

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue. ...

Paris s'en va (1981)

Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical team on both films. Henry Chapier who produced the short: "At the beginning of the '80s nobody was interested ...

Evidence (1979)

Evidence by Caroline Champetier, a director who skilfully illuminates the great filmmakers (Jacques Rivette's La bande des quatre , Philippe Garrel's J'entends plus la guitare , Jean-Luc Godard's Soigne ta droite, and Leos Carax's Holy Motors ), directs an ...

Mr. X (2014)

The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of ...

Caroline Champetier and Arnaud Desplechin: A Conversation about 'Shoah' (2013)

An interview about 'Shoah' featuring Caroline Champetier, who did assistant camera work on the film, and Arnaud Desplechin. ...

DRIVE IN Holy Motors (2013)

A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and adds interviews with its main participants (the actors Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, and Kylie Minogue, and the ...

The White Line (2010)

Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and women. Sylvain in full adolescence, feels the need to get closer to his father. On a whim, both of them leave ...

The Untouchable (2006)

On her birthday, a young actress learns her father is a Hindu man her mother met in India. She decamps to Varanasi to find him. ...

The Young Lieutenant (2005)

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective. ...

H Story (2001)

An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour". ...

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)

Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a once-fashionable producer who is now going through a bad patch, finding it increasingl ...

Far from Manhattan (1982)

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight years. He asks his friend Ingrid to help him break through this mystery. ...

Evidence (1979)

Evidence by Caroline Champetier, a director who skilfully illuminates the great filmmakers (Jacques Rivette's La bande des quatre , Philippe Garrel's J'entends plus la guitare , Jean-Luc Godard's Soigne ta droite, and Leos Carax's Holy Motors ), directs an ...

My Heart Is Red (1977)

A poll for an advertising agency during a working day resulting in a series of meetings with women and men from different social strata, each one of them with a different problem. ...