Movies: Claire Denis

On a construction site in Senegal, as project supervisor Horn is welcoming his young partner Léone into the hut he shares with young and impetuous engineer Cal, a black man called Alboury appears outside the railings surrounding their quarters. Infle...

Every day Paul crosses a canal that separates the Amsterdam city center from the north side, where his lover Christiaan lives and waits for him. A dear routine for both - until one day Paul meets Claire, who starts seducing him into her very own univ...

A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history....

Director Lam Can-Zhao leads a small film crew as they shoot a film about a stray dog in the streets of Guangzhou, leading viewers into an unpredictable, peculiar and incredible journey....

The erratic life of Patrice who, after having murdered the pimp of his mother to avenge the death of her, goes from town to town....

Memories of neighbors surrounding a violinist who committed suicide naked. Journey to the jungles of Guyana and Suriname in South America, chasing down the infamous gold miners. A sequel to 'Mauris Barres', directed by Jean-Marie Straub, wandering ar...

Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "ja...

They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have loves, dreams and passions. They will meet each other, leave each other, under the eye of their kids....

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In this short film, director Claire Denis documents her return to Cameroon for the 2010 premiere of White Material at the Écrans Noirs Film Festival. Included on the Criterion Collection's edition of White Material....

The french choreographer Mathilde Monnier and her preparation for her next performance is the main focus of this documentary. The choreography's practices and the bodies, everything is registered in some sort of anthropological way by the filmmaker's...

Claire Denis visits Bergman's home, browses his collection, and discusses his impact on her work. Part of Trespassing Bergman....

The film takes the form of a documentary report in which the director Claire Denis follows Les Têtes Brulées, a group of five musicians from Yaoundé in Cameroon, as they tour France....

Claire Denis goes to Eastern Chad to the Breidjing camp, the home of 40,000 refugees from Darfur. With great humility, she tells the stories of these men and women, victims of one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes that this century has seen so f...

In support of undocumented immigrants in France, a collective film jointly signed by 200 French filmmakers, producers, distributors, and cinema owners. Produced by Le Collectif des Cinéastes Pour les Sans-papiers, with Madjiguène Cissé....

One of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal's Le Contemplatif or "Duo"....

An illusion, or reality? The future, or the past? One girl, or two? Human, or something else? Nothing is what it seems in this post apocalyptic world....

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Claire Denis' contribution to anthology film À propos de Nice, la suite. Denis regular Gregoire Colin is snatched off the sidewalk by some guys he knows, given a gun and an apparently convincing speech (we don’t hear it – there’s no spoken dialogue)....

An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro....