Agnès Varda Movies

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays...

A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of...

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...

A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black &...

She is said to be cold, secretive and mysterious. She has the reputation of not letting anything of her intimate thoughts, her private life, her joys...

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as...

What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted...

This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films...

At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named...

Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in...

Born in 1943, Sara Gómez studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of...

A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.

At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’ suburb riots of 2005 for his portraits of young...

Film director Agnès Varda reflects on the production of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS, and presents a brief on-set interview with actor Michel...

Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.

A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou.

A Woman Watches People.

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David...

A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 1985 film "Vagabond".