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I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015)

I Don't Belong Anywhere - Le Cinéma de Chantal Akerman, explores some of the Belgian filmmaker's 40 plus films. From Brussels to Tel-Aviv, from Paris to New-York, this documentary charts the sites of her peregrinations. An experimental filmmaker, a nomad ...

Devil's Rope (2014)

The history of barbed wire, whose use dates back to the first settlers of the Wild West, always driven by their reckless and ruthless spirit of conquest and selfish ambition to leave their mark on wild lands; of its relationship with politics and mercantil ...

L'âge de raison, le cinéma des frères Dardenne (2013)

On the road again, le cinéma de Bouli Lanners (2011)

Documentary about belgian actor and director Bouli Lanners ...

Los Caminos de la Memoria (2010)

Franco's dictatorship, one of the longest and most violent dictatorial regimes in the history of the 20th century, has been kept silent by Spain since the transition and the recovery of democracy. In December 2007 following the approval of the controversia ...

Formidable (2008)

Social comedy about 2 forty-somethings who're looking for a new purpose in life. ...

Khalass (2007)

The class struggle between loving the poor, or asking yourself an excuse to be selfish for trying to live a luxury life. ...

On the Rumba River (2007)

Wendo Kolosoy was a former boxer and ship's mechanic from the Congo who in 1948 recorded a song called "Marie Louise" as Papa Wendo. Wendo's music, an infectious blend of Latin and African rhythms, took the nation by storm and he became an overnight star a ...

From the Other Side (2003)

A documentary look at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States. ...

On Borders (2002)

In this documentary road movie, filmmaker Danielle Arbid tries to conjure up an image of the country that is called Israel or Palestine. ...

Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter (2000)

A playful, free, and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with different textures, a book of images where a filmmaker shows the images and the stories he wants to share. ...

South (1999)

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in Texas in 1998. ...

Music of Tables (1999)

A short film for three pairs of hands and three tables, based on a notable composition by the director. ...

Loco Lucho (1998)

Mary returns to Perú and her family with her previous film as a gift to her father, Lucho Jimenez, an eighty year old man with a lot of vitality. She proposes a caravan trip into his past, taking him to places where they spent their lives together, asking ...

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997)

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of filmmakers—but all had already been done. So she suggested…"How about me?" Akerman creates a fascinating self-portrait ...

The Day When... (1997)

Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema". The camera continuously rotates 360 degrees around her apartment as she rereads the script at an exponentially increasing speed. At its ...

Water (1997)

A European official seeking to leave the Congo with his mistress in 1960 is stopped at a checkpoint. ...

Jeunes gens (1996)

Céramique and Louis are a carefree and charming young couple. But soon the whims of love appear. They have to face up to it. ...

A Couch in New York (1996)

A burnt-out New York psychoanalyst exchanges apartments with a Parisian woman. When his patients arrive, they talk to her and then pay. He returns early and becomes a patient as well. ...

Tale of the Three Jewels (1995)

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Romani girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Y ...

From the East (1993)

In this incisive dispatch from the newly collapsed Soviet empire, bullet holes from WWII still pockmark the old stone buildings. Akerman journeys from East Germany to Moscow between the late summer and winter of 1993 ('while there's still time'), chronicli ...

Nylon Blues: A History of the Nylon Stocking (1991)

Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings. For example inhuman exploitation of workers in artificial silk factories. The US army was a substantial promoter of the nylons. ...

Canticle of Stones (1990)

Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later. He works for an agricultural aid organization, she is a ...

Easy in Mind (1989)

A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing several countries. ...

Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas (1989)

A portrait of pianist Alfred Brendel performing and analysing Franz Schubert's final three sonatas. ...

Jan Cox, a Painter's Odyssey (1988)

Biographical film about the life and work of the Belgian painter Jan Cox. Cox had a tempestuous youth, during which he co-founded the Jeune Peinture Belge group and worked on the fringes of the Cobra movement. ...

Requiem pour un fumeur (1985)

Comedy about a clumsy female intern conducting her first survey about smoking and smokers. Both flattered and impressed, she meets a few major artistic figures such as Serge Gainsbourg or Bernard Lavilliers. But the film is also about the cigarettes which ...

21:12 Piano Bar (1981)

Florence is found dead and mutilated. When Nathalie hears about this in the bar where she plays piano she becomes interested. She tries to get in touch with the people who knew Florence closely. Eventually she gets them to talk about Florence's destructive ...

Autour de La Folie Almayer (2022)

An in-depth, behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Chantal Akerman's 2011 film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's book about a merchant, whose dreams of riches for his daughter are shattered by his greed and prejudice. ...