Françoise Widhoff

A Radiant Girl (2022)

Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a young, bubbly, 19-year-old Jewish girl. Her family watches her discover the world, friends, new love and a passion for the theatre. The aspiring actress is living her youthful life without a care in the world, but she does no ...

Spring Blossom (2021)

A 16-year-old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes. ...

Le Juif de Lascaux (2015)

The Encounter (1996)

A filmmaker meets a woman. Delicately, he starts videoing moments of their life together. He slowly realises he's not storing memories, but making a film. He asks her permission to continue. ...

F for Fake (1973)

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a f ...

L'Amitié (2023)

"I have on occasion experienced filmmaking as an intensely shared activity. Lively friendships result and remain. Filming that affection today is no act of nostalgia. Paths once crossed make things simple. People who have been behind the camera, or in fron ...

The Perpetual Leek (2021)

"This film begins on the 5th of March. Every year, on this exact date, an ant comes in under my front door and I watch it. For her, it's the beginning of spring, for me it's my mother's birthday. The ant feeds its queen who then lays eggs and I ask myself ...

Living and Knowing You Are Alive (2019)

Novelist and screenwriter Emmanuèle Bernheim and filmmaker Alain Cavalier have been friends for 30 years. They are preparing a film based on the former's autobiography, "Tout s'est bien passé" (Everything Went Fine). In it, she tells how her father asked ...

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind. ...

Level Five (1997)

Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with Japanese experts and witnesses prompt her to reflect on life, humanity, and the lasting influence of history and mem ...