Agnès Varda

Acting / Production / Writing / Creator

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.

Personal Information

Place of Birth

Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

About

Directing, Male

Birthday

30 May 1928, 97 years old

Known For

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Faces Places

Vagabond

The Gleaners and I

The Truth About Charlie

The Beaches of Agnès

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

Varda by Agnès

Jane B. by Agnès V.

Filmography

Production

Writing

Creator

Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison

Self (archive footage)

2025

In Her Own Words

Self

2024

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

Self (archive footage)

2023

Viva Varda!

Self (archive footage)

2023

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

Self (voice)

2022

The World in Shots

Self

2021

Jim Morrison: The End

Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2021

150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement

French Woman Talking

2021

La Alameda 2018

ella misma

2020

Agnes V. by Jane B.

Self (Archive Footage)

2020

The Invention of Chris Marker

self

2020

Harumi

Self

2019

Varda by Agnès

Self

2019

Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma

Agnès Varda

2019

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

Self (archive footage)

2018

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Self

2018

Quinqui Stars

Self (archive footage)

2018

#JR

Self

2018

Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer

Self

2018

Chance Is the Best Assistant

Self

2018

A Visual History with Agnès Varda

Herself

2017

Faces Places

Self

2017

EXPRMNTL

herself

2016

Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet

2015

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts

Self (uncredited)

2014

Henri Langlois vu par...

Self

2014

The 8th Floor

Self

2014

Cinéast(e)s

Self

2013

The 3 Lives of Agnès

Self

2012

Two Street Artists

Narrator (voice)

2012

In Chris Marker's Studio

Self

2011

Americano

Voice (Uncredited)

2011

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

Self

2011

The First Interview

Self / Host (voice)

2011

Great Directors

Self

2009

Souvenirs and Evocations

Self

2008

Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story

Self

2008

Daguerre-plage

Self

2008

La chanson 'Lola'

Self

2008

Trapézistes et voltigeurs

Self

2008

The Beaches of Agnès

Self

2008

Shooting Women

Self

2008

Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Self

2008

The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany

Self

2008

From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects

Self

2007

Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD

Self

2007

Women Behind the Camera

Self

2007

Some Widows of Noirmoutier

Self

2006

Agnès parle du Bonheur

Self

2006

Le Bonheur? Réponses des Fontenaisiens

Self

2006

Bonheur: nom propre ou concept

Self

2006

More So-called Caryatids

Narrator

2005

Mag Bodard, un destin

Self (archive footage)

2005

Not Like Before

Self

2005

Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes

Self

2005

Where is Sara Gómez?

Self

2005

Rue Daguerre in 2005

Self

2005

Bread, Painting, Accordion

herself

2005

Ydessa, the Bears and etc.

Narrator (voice)

2004

Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli

Self

2004

Musique et Travellings

Self

2003

The Vanishing Lion

La Lectrice du Parc / Narrator (uncredited)

2003

Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments

Narrator / Self

2003

The Story of an Old Lady

Self

2003

The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later

Narrator

2002

The Truth About Charlie

The Widow Hyppolite

2002

Tribute to Zgougou the Cat

Self

2002

Janela da Alma

Self

2001

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

Self

2000

The Gleaners and I

Self

2000

The World of Jacques Demy

Self

1995

Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South

Self

1994

The Young Girls Turn 25

Self

1993

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

Self

1992

Jacquot

Narrator (uncredited)

1991

Pictures of Europe

Self

1990

Calling the Shots

Self

1988

Jane B. by Agnès V.

Self (uncredited)

1988

You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1986

Ulysse

Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1986

a Nathalie Sarraute

Self (Voice)

1986

Vagabond

(uncredited)

1985

The So-Called Caryatids

Narrator

1984

One Minute for One Image

Self - Narrator (voice)

1983

Documenteur

Mur Murs Play Back (voice) (uncredited)

1981

Mur Murs

Self / Narrator

1981

Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness

Self

1978

Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda

Self

1977

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1977

Daguerréotypes

Narrator

1975

Women Reply

Self (voice)

1975

La Vie filmée

1975

Nausicaa

Self

1971

Viva Varda!

Self

1970

Lions Love

Agnès (uncredited)

1969

Far from Vietnam

Narrator (segment "Flash Back") (voice)

1967

Uncle Yanco

Self

1967

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Music-Loving Nun (uncredited)

1967

The Birth of Children of Paradise

Self

1967

Agnès Varda tourne...

herself

1965

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

Self

1964

Hello Cubans

Narrator (voice)

1963

La Mélangite

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1960

All the World's Memory

1956

Le Photographe Photographié - Brassaï par Varda

1954