Chantal Akerman Movies

"To begin with, we have Babette Mangolte, the camera technician on Hotel Monterey, La Chambre and Jeanne Dielman, but who for me also symbolises the...

A 3rd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS starring her friends her mother and herself.

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner....

A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the...

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.

The first film by Chantal Akerman, a short silent 8mm film shot during the Brussels summer Midi Fair, that was one of four short films she made as a...

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

Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live.

A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of...

A 2nd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS.

In August 2012, Chantal Akerman went scouting in the American South with the idea of shooting a documentary there, inspired by the story of Jake...

“My mother laughs prelude” is a performance from the book that Chantal made about her mother. In 2013, Akerman’s mother was dying....

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André...

Single woman Charlotte tries to write erotic fiction despite not having any sensual experience.

Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema". The camera continuously...

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.

Suburbs of Brussels. A young woman locks herself in the kitchen of her apartment, as she blissfully devotes herself to dismantling the household...

A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a...