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...
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and...
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old...
The Meetings of Anna
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
Je Tu Il Elle
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...
A Couch in New York
Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she...
The Captive
In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance.
Golden Eighties
Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman...
News from Home
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...
Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl
Recommendation for Mercy
Single woman Charlotte tries to write erotic fiction despite not having any sensual experience.
Tomorrow We Move
Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the...
Toute une nuit
An exploration of Jewish American identity in a multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. A series of first-person addresses delivered by a...
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy
What a revelation and a privilege it is to see Chantal Akerman at work. Its French title a pun, this film offers behind-the-scenes footage from the...
Making of Tomorrow We Move
In 1896 Georges Nagelmackers launched the Nord Express from Paris to St Petersburg. In 1990 the film rides the 47 hours from Paris to Moscow, in a...
Nord Express
In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel’s delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by...
Voyages
In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily...
Vodka Lemon
In 1940s Malaysia, European merchant Kaspar Almayer is obsessed with finding a treasure to secure his daughter's future. His dreams fall victim to...
Almayer's Folly
All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping...
The Eighties
Akerman spends a month in Tel Aviv, in an apartment by the sea, contemplating childhood, family, and her Jewish identity.
Down There
