Raymond Depardon Movies

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following...

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding...

This documentary is a collection of footage of 14 suspects being 'interviewed' by the deputy public prosecutors.

A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...

A new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.

Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valery Gicard d'Estaing

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

A European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.

Raymond Depardon sets out to meet French people to listen to them tell their tales. From Charleville-Mézières to Nice, Sète to...

The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

A fortuitous meeting, late one afternoon, in the garden of the Tuileries, of one or two cameras, a tape recorder, and three cameramen/directors,...

The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director...

This documentary draws a sensitive, unsensational portrait of the desert and the people who inhabit it, the Toubous.

Documentary Short

Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by...