Liliane de Kermadec

Paris ou l’utopie perdue (2018)

A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, with a particular focus on the utopian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier. ...

Le cri des fourmis (2016)

In today Uruguay, eight former Tupamaras tell about their youth life in the fight for a better world. ...

He Film (2011)

The Chinese government provides the villages in the mountains of Sichuan (China) with films. The main character of this film is a projectionist who, 37 years ago, used to carry his old projector on foot and bicycle. He would display a small screen across t ...

Péripéties et perfections des acteurs de l'Opéra de Pékin (2009)

From an early age, the future actors of the Peking opera undergo intensive training to be able to interpret their roles once they become adults. Their ancestral art requires a perfect mastery of their body. In addition to acting, they must learn to sing, d ...

Le Murmure Des Ruines (2008)

Étoiles et petits pas (2008)

The Teatro alla Scala (Milano, Italy) backstage and the artists in rehearsal for the New Year ballets and celebrations. ...

L'histoire naturelle d'Armand David (2005)

The life and work of French naturalist-scientist-priest Père Armand David, living as a missionary in China, who is thought to be the first Westerner ever to lay eyes on a wild panda as he was documenting species of Chinese flora and fauna. ...

Le Cinéma de grand-père (1995)

Remarkable life story of Henri Diamant-Berger, a director and screenwriter whose devotion to cinema led him to collaborate with some of the greatest actors and filmmakers of his time. ...

The Telegraph Route (1994)

This French film chronicles the amazing-but-true story of Lisa Alling who in 1928 successfully walked from New York City to Siberia via the Bering Straight by following telegraph poles. It was shot entirely in the Ukraine. Lisa, a chambermaid, has had enou ...

Un moment d'inattention (1986)

Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fidelity, but Laurent's opinions and appetites are starting to shift with the times. ...

Mersonne ne m'aime (1982)

After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women. ...

Le petit Pommier (1981)

Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs. ...

Sophie et le Capitaine (1978)

Unfinished movie after two weeks shooting in May 1978. ...

News from Home (1977)

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself. ...

Tomorrow's Children (1976)

The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wife dies, he makes plans to seek out whatever remnants of civilization exist. However, the arrival of a gro ...

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon. ...

Aloïse (1975)

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric ...

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. ...

La récré (1967)

Friendships, games, boredom, first emotions: the playground. ...

Qui donc a rêvé? (1965)

A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality. ...

Le temps d'Emma (1964)

Short about an old lady, the painter Emma Stern, 85, who began devoting herself to art when she was in her seventies. The film won the Lion de Saint-Marc in Venice. ...

Bebert and the Train (1963)

The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin famil ...

Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit, Alphonse, with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, ...

Les Culottes rouges (1962)

Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom. ...

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 ...

Delphine and Carole (2020)

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor represent ...

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000)

Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Marguerite Duras, she played in 34 films for cinema, 13 films for television and 33 plays. Jacqueline Veuve, fi ...

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 ...

Riff Raff Girls (1959)

Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Bel ...