Agnès Varda

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Biography

Agnès Varda (May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.

Known For

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Music-Loving Nun (uncredited)

Faces Places

Self

The Gleaners and I

Self

The Truth About Charlie

The Widow Hyppolite

The Beaches of Agnès

Self

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Varda by Agnès

Self

Jane B. by Agnès V.

Self (uncredited)

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	In Her Own Words MOVIE	Self
2023	Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	Viva Varda! MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 MOVIE	Self (voice)
2022	Deneuve, la reine Catherine MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	The World in Shots MOVIE	Self
2021	Jim Morrison: The End MOVIE	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2021	150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement MOVIE	French Woman Talking
2020	La Alameda 2018 MOVIE	ella misma
2020	Agnes V. by Jane B. MOVIE	Self (Archive Footage)
2020	The Invention of Chris Marker MOVIE	self
2019	Harumi MOVIE	Self
2019	Varda by Agnès MOVIE	Self
2019	Varda by Agnès TV	Self
2019	Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma MOVIE	Agnès Varda
2018	Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché MOVIE	Self
2018	Quinqui Stars MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	#JR MOVIE	Self
2018	Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer MOVIE	Self
2018	Chance Is the Best Assistant MOVIE	Self
2017	A Visual History with Agnès Varda MOVIE	Herself
2017	Faces Places MOVIE	Self
2016	EXPRMNTL MOVIE	herself
2015	Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet MOVIE	Self
2014	Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
2014	Henri Langlois vu par... MOVIE	Self
2014	The 8th Floor MOVIE	Self
2013	Cinéast(e)s MOVIE	Self
2012	The 3 Lives of Agnès MOVIE	Self
2012	Square TV	Self
2012	Two Street Artists MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2011	In Chris Marker's Studio MOVIE	Self
2011	Agnès Varda: From Here to There TV	Self / Narrator (voice)
2011	Americano MOVIE	Voice (Uncredited)
2011	Agnès Varda: From Here to There MOVIE	Self
2011	The First Interview MOVIE	Self / Host (voice)
2009	Great Directors MOVIE	Self
2008	Souvenirs and Evocations MOVIE	Self
2008	Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story MOVIE	Self
2008	Daguerre-plage MOVIE	Self
2008	La chanson 'Lola' MOVIE	Self
2008	Trapézistes et voltigeurs MOVIE	Self
2008	The Beaches of Agnès MOVIE	Self
2008	Shooting Women MOVIE	Self
2008	Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg MOVIE	Self
2008	The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany MOVIE	Self
2007	From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects MOVIE	Self
2007	Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD MOVIE	Self
2007	Women Behind the Camera MOVIE	Self
2006	Some Widows of Noirmoutier MOVIE	Self
2006	Agnès parle du Bonheur MOVIE	Self
2006	Le Bonheur? Réponses des Fontenaisiens MOVIE	Self
2006	Bonheur: nom propre ou concept MOVIE	Self
2005	More So-called Caryatids MOVIE	Narrator
2005	Mag Bodard, un destin MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2005	Not Like Before MOVIE	Self
2005	Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes MOVIE	Self
2005	Where is Sara Gómez? MOVIE	Self
2005	Rue Daguerre in 2005 MOVIE	Self - Narrator
2005	Bread, Painting, Accordion MOVIE	herself
2004	Viennale Walzer MOVIE	Self
2004	Ydessa, the Bears and etc. MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2004	Leçon de Cinéma TV	Self
2004	Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli MOVIE	Self
2003	Musique et Travellings MOVIE	Self
2003	Un film et son époque TV	Self
2003	The Vanishing Lion MOVIE	La Lectrice du Parc / Narrator (uncredited)
2003	Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments MOVIE	Narrator / Self
2003	The Story of an Old Lady MOVIE	Self
2002	The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later MOVIE	Narrator
2002	The Truth About Charlie MOVIE	The Widow Hyppolite
2002	Tribute to Zgougou the Cat MOVIE	Self
2001	Janela da Alma MOVIE	Self
2000	Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema MOVIE	Self
2000	The Gleaners and I MOVIE	Self
1995	The World of Jacques Demy MOVIE	Self
1994	Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South MOVIE	Self
1993	The Young Girls Turn 25 MOVIE	Self
1992	Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave MOVIE	Self
1991	Jacquot MOVIE	Narrator (uncredited)
1990	Pictures of Europe MOVIE	Self
1988	Calling the Shots MOVIE	Self
1988	Jane B. by Agnès V. MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1986	You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know... MOVIE	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1986	Ulysse MOVIE	Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1986	a Nathalie Sarraute MOVIE	Self (Voice)
1984	The So-Called Caryatids MOVIE	Narrator
1983	One Minute for One Image MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
1982	Mur Murs MOVIE	Self - Narrator
1982	Documenteur MOVIE	Mur Murs Play Back (voice) (uncredited)
1978	Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness MOVIE	Self
1978	Daguerréotypes MOVIE	Narrator
1977	Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda MOVIE	Self
1977	One Sings, the Other Doesn't MOVIE	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1975	Women Reply MOVIE	Self (voice)
1975	La Vie filmée MOVIE	Self
1971	Nausicaa MOVIE	Self
1970	Viva Varda! MOVIE	Self
1969	Lions Love MOVIE	Agnès (uncredited)
1967	Far from Vietnam MOVIE	Narrator (segment "Flash Back") (voice)
1967	Uncle Yanco MOVIE	Self
1967	The Young Girls of Rochefort MOVIE	Music-Loving Nun (uncredited)
1967	The Birth of Children of Paradise MOVIE	Self
1965	Agnès Varda tourne... MOVIE	herself
1964	La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même MOVIE	Self
1963	Hello Cubans MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1960	La Mélangite MOVIE	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1956	All the World's Memory MOVIE	Self
1956	Cinépanorama TV	Self
1954	Le Photographe Photographié - Brassaï par Varda MOVIE	Self

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