Raymond Depardon Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

The documentary is about the ceremony dedicated by American people to John Lennon after his murder. The 10 minutes of silence in New York's Central...

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

This documentary draws a sensitive, unsensational portrait of the desert and the people who inhabit it, the Toubous.

Muriel Leferle is 22-years-old, a convicted felon, HIV-positive, and can talk her way out of nearly anything. Filmmaker Raymond Depardon first...

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

Documentary Short

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

In lights and colors, Raymond Depardon photographs according to his desires. He retraces his steps, wanders around the places he loves or discovers:...

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

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

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

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...