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Chantal Akerman

This May, QFT celebrates one of cinema's mavericks with a season dedicated to filmmaker Chantal Akerman, the first female director to take the number one spot on Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time poll.

Chantal Akerman: Je Tu Il Elle

Chantal Akerman’s debut feature revealed its maker to be a radical and uncompromising force in cinema.
02 May 2025
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Chantal Akerman: Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Voted the greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound Critics’ poll, Chantal Akerman’s chamber epic is a key entry in her prolific body of work.
04 May 2025 , 06 May 2025
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Chantal Akerman: News From Home

This desolate musing on the elusive nature of home exquisitely juxtaposes New York’s lonely, empty streets with letters from ‘a distant voice’, Chantal Akerman’s mother.
09 May 2025 , 11 May 2025
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Chantal Akerman: Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

A quasi self-portrait that was unfairly neglected on its release, this road movie is a profound musing on loneliness, displacement and the long shadow of the war.
10 May 2025 , 13 May 2025
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Chantal Akerman: Golden Eighties

Song, dance and romance charge this joyous hair-salon set musical, but Chantal Akerman’s take on 80s consumerism is anything but frothy.
16 May 2025 , 18 May 2025
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Chantal Akerman: La Captive

If there is one film that shows how Chantal Akerman never allowed easy judgements or interpretations, this portrait of a tortured relationship is it.
21 May 2025
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Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie

Chantal Akerman’s final film is her most forthright and fragile portrait of her relationship with her mother and a searing companion piece to Jeanne Dielman.
25 May 2025
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