Raymond Depardon Movies

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.

During his stay in the Yanomami village of Watoriki with the anthropologist Bruce Albert, the French documentary filmmaker and photographer Raymond...

55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of...

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

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...

Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording...

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 follows the daily life of a section of the police station of the fifth "arrondissement" (district) of Paris.

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

Raymond Depardon reflects on the photographs he took at the San Clemente psychiatric hospital. He discusses the photographer’s wandering eye...

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

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

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

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

Documentary Short

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

A journal, a voyage through time. He photographs France, she rediscovers the unseen footage he has so carefully kept: his first steps behind the...