The first lady is coming: A retrospective of Agnès Varda

Varda's film was the first flowering of the realist movement in French filmmaking that gave birth to the New Wave only a few years later. Her drive to forge her own cinematic forms make this one of the most startling debuts of all time.

The film is about the widows on the island Noirmoutier...

Varda described Daguerréotypes, which turns her inquisitive gaze towards a few residents of the Rue Daguerre in Paris where she lived, as “more or less a casual look at my neighbors.”

The murals of this film are largely the work of black and Chicano artists in Venice Beach or Watts; Varda is able to render them in all their majesty, teasing out the sociological implications of the act of mural-making.

In Los Angeles, Emilie wanders in the shadows of her emotions. She is obsessed with words, she works in front of the ocean...

After doing a fiction film about Jacques’ childhood (Jacquot de Nantes), my idea was to make a documentary—a relatively objective one—about Jacques Demy, as an adult and a filmmaker...

An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as by the film's own director, Agnes Varda.

In 2000, Agnès Varda made her much-praised documentary LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE / THE GLEANERS AND I, filming gleaners who live on discarded or left food...

Varda, the most exuberant and generous filmmaker of her generation, invents here an expansive cine-self-portrait in which she explores the beaches of her life.

The diary of a pregnant woman in a neighborhood called la Mouffe (on rue Mouffetard in Paris). The market, the bums, the drunks…

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet...

Among the most fascinating time capsules of Varda’s films of the ‘60s is this short portrait of her hippy uncle Jean “Yanco” Varda.

Four years after Fidel Castro came to power, Agnès Varda brought back from Cuba 1,800 photos and used them to make an educational and amusing documentary...

This is a film about the power of speech as political performance: we are transported to a Black Panther rally held on February 17th, 1968 in California.

To the question “What is a woman?” posed by a television station, a few women filmmakers have responded, including Agnès Varda...

Women statues, human columns, the Caryatids of Paris...

In two huge rooms, discover hundreds of old photographs: children in their Sunday best, families gathered, groups of friends, athletes or colleagues, etc., and discover that in each picture we also see a teddy bear…