Claire Atherton Movies

From Germany to Italy, the United States to Île-de-France, Jumbo/Toto, Stories About an Elephant shadows the itinerary of a single forgotten...

Genre: Documentary

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A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence with her mother Aurelia, from the...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Coralie Seyrig

This story of an unexpected encounter between a young boy and a wounded foreigner somewhere in the Romanian wilderness is a parable about the freedom...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Cristi Balea

A Flower in the Mouth is a film diptych about time running out and how to live through the days that remain. The first act, filmed as an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oxmo Puccino

Documentary about humans dealing with changing technology, the basic concepts of communication, cinema, and Akerman's mother, seen in her Brussels...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

A brother writes to his sister. A brother loves his sister. is it true that one can keep a young woman through writing? The ambition is great. A...

Genre: Documentary

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Images of a small boatyard, somewhere in Greece. Between the repairs and the boats’ departures, a team of men haul them ashore and set them...

Genre: Documentary

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Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sylvie Testud

The American military forces has a long tradition of cooperation with the movie industry. Movie studios can save millions of dollars by securing use...

Genre: Documentary

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Witches, devil's hooks, firebrands ... Who are these women who embody the danger of the times? Feminists for sure, sometimes underground and singular...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chloé Delaume

A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stanislas Merhar

Northern Portugal. An imposing residence with its garden and magnolia tree. As we know, home is a place that film, this outdoor art, has often used...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eva Ras

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...

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

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Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Natalia Chakhovskaia

Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China's most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wang Xilin

This documentary follows 5 years of struggle for truth and justice after the murder of 69-year-old Ali Ziri by the french police, covered by the...

Genre: Documentary

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Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Juliette Binoche

One year after the death of Simone de Beauvoir (14 april 1986) Delphine Seyrig pays homage by visiting her grave. which she finds still covered with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Delphine Seyrig

When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sylvie Testud

A documentary exploring the rise and fall of Detroit. Compiling historical footage and interviews with the city's residents, this meditative...

Genre: Documentary

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Also Known as Jihadi follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly...

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sylvie Testud

The vine bore fruit, and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Soraia Prudêncio

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sylvie Testud

After a series of rapes in broad daylight in 1985, a demonstration takes place in September. Leaflets accuse the "immigrant criminal underworld."...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harlem Désir

After a series of rapes in broad daylight in 1985, a demonstration takes place in September. Leaflets accuse the "immigrant criminal underworld."...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harlem Désir

Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

The people of the Mafrouza shantytown in Alexandria daily reconstruct themselves and the world around them, but they also question the camera, who...

Genre: Documentary

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Artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire spent four years interacting with the pupils of a film class, at a secondary school in the Parisian suburb of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anida Ait Abdesselam

Commissioned for the centenary of the famous French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens and shot on the street that bears his name in Paris'...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chantal Akerman

Total laryngectomy, a mutilation that affects the face and the voice, can be lived as a profound metamorphosis. Joël Perrotte undertook that...

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

A film that comprises in itself a form of dance – rather than a film about dance; an encounter between film and dance – rather than a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ko Murobushi

A film that comprises in itself a form of dance – rather than a film about dance; an encounter between film and dance – rather than a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ko Murobushi

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman