Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda (30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, photographer, and artist. Her work was pioneering for, and central to, the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films focused on achieving documentary realism, addressing feminist issues, and producing other social commentary, with a distinctive experimental style.

Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on location. Her use of non-professional actors was also unconventional for 1950s French cinema.

Among several other awards and nominations, Varda received an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, an Academy Honorary Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.


 * La Pointe Courte (1955)
 * Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
 * Le Bonheur (1965)
 * Les Créatures (1966)
 * Far from Vietnam (1967, co-director)
 * Lions Love (1969)
 * Daguerréotypes (1975)
 * One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
 * Mur Murs (1981)
 * Documenteur (1981)
 * Vagabond (1985)
 * Kung Fu Master (1987)
 * Jane B. by Agnes V. (1988)
 * Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
 * The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
 * A Hundred and One Nights (1994)
 * The World of Jacques Demy (1995)
 * The Gleaners and I (2000)
 * The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)
 * Cinévardaphoto (2004)
 * Some Widows of Noirmoutier (2006)
 * The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
 * Faces Places (2017)
 * Varda by Agnès (2019)