Agnès Varda

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.

Known For

The Truth About Charlie

The Widow Hyppolite

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

Self (archive footage)

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

Self

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Self

Cinépanorama

Self

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

Self

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison	Self (archive footage)
2024	In Her Own Words	Self
2023	Viva Varda!	Self (archive footage)
2023	Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera	Self (archive footage)
2022	Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967	Self (voice)
2021	The World in Shots	Self
2021	150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement	French Woman Talking
2021	Jim Morrison: The End	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2020	The Invention of Chris Marker	self
2020	Agnes V. by Jane B.	Self (Archive Footage)
2020	La Alameda 2018	ella misma
2019	Harumi	Self
2019	Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma	Agnès Varda
2019	Varda by Agnès	Self
2018	Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché	Self
2018	Chance Is the Best Assistant	Self
2018	Quinqui Stars	Self (archive footage)
2018	#JR	Self
2018	Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure	Self (archive footage)
2018	Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer	Self
2017	A Visual History with Agnès Varda	Herself
2017	Faces Places	Self
2016	EXPRMNTL	herself
2015	Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2014	Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts	Self (uncredited)
2014	The 8th Floor	Self
2014	Henri Langlois vu par...	Self
2013	Cinéast(e)s	Self
2012	The 3 Lives of Agnès	Self
2012	Two Street Artists	Narrator (voice)
2011	The First Interview	Self / Host (voice)
2011	In Chris Marker's Studio	Self
2011	Agnès Varda: From Here to There	Self
2011	Americano	Voice (Uncredited)
2009	Great Directors	Self
2008	The Beaches of Agnès	Self
2008	Shooting Women	Self
2008	The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany	Self
2008	Souvenirs and Evocations	Self
2008	Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story	Self
2008	Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Self
2008	Daguerre-plage	Self
2008	La chanson 'Lola'	Self
2008	Trapézistes et voltigeurs	Self
2007	Women Behind the Camera	Self
2007	From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects	Self
2007	Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD	Self
2006	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
2005	Where is Sara Gómez?	Self
2005	Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes	Self
2005	More So-called Caryatids	Narrator
2005	Rue Daguerre in 2005	Self
2005	Not Like Before	Self
2005	Bread, Painting, Accordion	herself
2005	Mag Bodard, un destin	Self (archive footage)
2004	Ydessa, the Bears and etc.	Narrator (voice)
2004	Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli	Self
2003	Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments	Narrator / Self
2003	The Story of an Old Lady	Self
2003	The Vanishing Lion	La Lectrice du Parc / Narrator (uncredited)
2003	Musique et Travellings	Self
2002	The Truth About Charlie	The Widow Hyppolite
2002	The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later	Narrator
2002	Tribute to Zgougou the Cat	Self
2001	Janela da Alma	Self
2000	The Gleaners and I	Self
2000	Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema	Self
1995	The World of Jacques Demy	Self
1994	Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South	Self
1993	The Young Girls Turn 25	Self
1992	Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave	Self
1991	Jacquot	Narrator (uncredited)
1990	Pictures of Europe	Self
1988	Calling the Shots	Self
1988	Jane B. by Agnès V.	Self (uncredited)
1986	Ulysse	Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1986	You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1986	a Nathalie Sarraute	Self (Voice)
1985	Vagabond	(uncredited)
1984	The So-Called Caryatids	Narrator
1983	One Minute for One Image	Self - Narrator (voice)
1981	Mur Murs	Self / Narrator
1981	Documenteur	Mur Murs Play Back (voice) (uncredited)
1978	Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness	Self
1977	Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda	Self
1977	One Sings, the Other Doesn't	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1975	La Vie filmée
1975	Women Reply	Self (voice)
1975	Daguerréotypes	Narrator
1971	Nausicaa	Self
1970	Viva Varda!	Self
1969	Lions Love	Agnès (uncredited)
1967	Far from Vietnam	Narrator (segment "Flash Back") (voice)
1967	The Birth of Children of Paradise	Self
1967	Uncle Yanco	Self
1967	The Young Girls of Rochefort	Music-Loving Nun (uncredited)
1965	Agnès Varda tourne...	herself
1964	La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même	Self
1963	Hello Cubans	Narrator (voice)
1960	La Mélangite	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1956	All the World's Memory
1954	Le Photographe Photographié - Brassaï par Varda

Year	TV Show	Role
2019	Varda by Agnès	Self
2012	Square	Self
2011	Agnès Varda: From Here to There	Self / Narrator (voice)
2004	Leçon de Cinéma	Self
2003	Un film et son époque	Self
1956	Cinépanorama	Self