Marin Karmitz Movies

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.

Jonas, a 23-year-old dad, attempts to carry out an important Jewish tradition: burying the foreskin of his newly circumcised son. The forgetful...

Documentary on writer/philospher Simone de Beauvoir via interviews of herself and friends supplimented with archive footage resulting in an intimate...

Zion, 14, and his brother Meir, 17, are facing a crisis in their relationship after a terrible accident. They keep the secret to themselves and it...

In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a cabaret singer, and earns his living...

A making-of documentary featuring interviews with director Michael Haneke, actor Juliette Binoche, and producer Marin Karmitz, as well as on-set...

The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is...

Documentary about the emergence of rock and roll bands and fans in France

This a beautiful May evening. The sun has just set behind the hill. Tonight the inhabitants of the Le Corbusier housing unit are going to experience...

One morning in August 1944, the inhabitants of a French village are celebrating their premature liberation. The festivities are interrupted by the...

Adolescence is a 1966 French short documentary film directed by Marin Karmitz, about the teenage students of a famed ballet teacher. It was nominated...

Abbas Kiarostami about the making of "The Wind Will Carry Us"

a 22-minute French experimental short film directed by Marin Karmitz and Jean Ravel, based on Samuel Beckett's 1963 play. It features actors...

A young man goes looking for work on a cold, rainy weekday morning in Paris. He buys an umbrella for one franc and finds happiness with a beautiful...

Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly...

Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both...

A pregnant young woman is listening the conversation of her table neighbours involuntary. On the first sight its seems to be the banalities of an old...