Raymond Depardon

On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon’s film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: ...

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 ...

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the ...

The Garet farm is for sale. Brothers Jean and Raymond Depardon chat about the past and the future of the farm.

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

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

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 some ...

Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

Utilizing a combination of professional actors and man-on-the-street interviews, French director Raymond Depardon has created a film about ...

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

Using a rostrum camera, Raymond Depardon films a long series of photos, from the narrow streets of Paris to the endless desert, accompanied by ...

Miscellaneous images of African life.

Film about writer Malraux, with photographs portraying great moments of his life and accompanied by his most famous speeches.

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

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.

In the context of the World Aids Day on the 1st December 1994, the French Ministry of Defence commissioned the producer Raymond DEPARDON to make ...

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

Raymond Depardon had photographed the city of Beirut before it was destroyed and rebuilt. He films a long take of his photographs, like a ...

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

Short film of Raymond Depardon

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

A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. The patients arrive on their own, or with ...

It is slow, succinct and absolutely riveting. With his photojournalist’s eye, and simple but inspired camera work, Depardon plunges us into ...

After offering spectators a projection/comparison of extracts from 17 films (each time, the first 5 minutes of their second reel) entitled ...

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

This documentary is an autobiography based on director Depardon’s voice, his face and pictures from his childhood which are all mixed ...

This documentary follows the daily life of a section of the police station of the fifth “arrondissement” (district) of Paris.

This documentary is about the life of a Venetian psychiatric hospital. The relationships between the doctors, the patients and their families are ...