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A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Delphine Seyrig

Chantal Akerman explores Jewish American identity in this multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. Shot in Brooklyn near the Williamsburg...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mark Amitin

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

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aurore Clément

A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chantal Akerman

In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Romen Avinian

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

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

Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ariadna Gil

A short documentary on the fabulous courthouse building in Brussels from the architect Joseph Poelaert, temporarily a house of dreams structured in...

Genre: Documentary

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Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Myriam Boyer

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aurore Clément

Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew Skidd

Moshe Amar is a once poet and now a "businessman" who left his wife with their new born in Israel twenty years ago and spent them in the land of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ran Danker

Insomnies is an impressionistic look at the city at night, avoiding the clichés of commercial or tourist films and suggesting instead a...

Genre: Documentary

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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

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

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chantal Akerman

Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guilaine Londez

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hélène Lapiower