Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1951 • France

Walter and Charlotte are a young couple who engage in an awkward conversation before Charlotte is set to take a train out of town.

Directed by Jacques Demy • 1951 • France

Jacques Demy makes a rare on-screen appearance as the star of LES HORIZONS MORTS (“The Dead Horizons”), his debut dramatic short from 1951, about a young man suffering from a broken heart.

Directed by Louis Malle • 1954 • France

In 1954, Louis Malle was a film student at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris, where he shot this rarely seen short, CRAZEOLOGIE. Inspired by the theater of the absurd of such playwrights as Samuel Beckett and Eugène Iones...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1956 • France

Just before embarking on PARIS BELONGS TO US, Jacques Rivette directed the following 1956 short film about an adulterous wife and her lover’s attempt to figure out how she will explain his gift of a mink coat. Cowritten by fellow French New Wave lumina...

Directed by Jacques Demy • 1956 • France

This 1956 short film by Jacques Demy documents a week in the life of a clog maker in the Loire Valley.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1957 • France

A man makes dates with two women on the same day without realizing that they are best friends.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut • 1958 • France

In this short film, a young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.

Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1958 • France

In this short film from director Eric Rohmer, Véronique tutors a perplexing young boy.

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1958 • France

As if you need any more reasons to visit the beautiful south of France, Agnès Varda celebrates the splendor of this area in a short documentary funded by the French Tourism Office. In this cheeky little film, Varda highlights the importance of tourism to...

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1958 • France

Pregnant with her first child, director Agnès Varda turned her camera to her immediate surroundings capturing day-to-day life along the Rue Mouffetard. Lacking synch sound and incorporating a number of unconventional techniques, this short work displays Va...

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1958 • France
Starring Danièle Delorme

Made early in Agnès Varda’s career, this lushly shot Eastmancolor short was commissioned by the national tourism board to promote the medieval castles of the Loire Valley region. It deviates from the standard travelogue format by m...

Directed by Jacques Demy • 1959 • France

The following 1959 short by Jacques Demy tells the story of Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney, the strict and pious pastor of the village of Ars.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1959 • France

A jilted man rants at his mostly silent former lover.

Directed by François Truffaut • 1962 • France

This short film is the first segment of five in the multinational feature Love at Twenty (1962), all five segments on the theme of first adult love. After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen-year-old Antoine Doinel, having been prov...

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France

Directed by Agnès Varda for her film CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7, this short film stars her French new wave colleagues Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Eddie Constantine.

Directed by Jacques Demy • 1962 • France

Jacques Demy based this 1962 short, made for the omnibus feature THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, on his memories of growing up in Nantes.

Directed by Chris Marker • 1963 • France

Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement ...

Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1963 • France
Starring Barbet Schroeder, Michèle Girardon, Claudine Soubrier

Delicate and jazzy, THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU, the first entry in the Six Moral Tales series, evinces stirrings of what would become the Eric Rohmer style: unfussy naturalistic shooting, ironi...

Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1964 • France

A university student wanders around Paris in this short film by Eric Rohmer.

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1964 • France
Starring Michel Piccoli

Agnès Varda constructed this invigorating travelogue from over four hundred still photographs taken during a trip to Cuba in the wake of its 1959 revolution. Through fluid montage, the people captured by her camera come to playful, ...

Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1966 • France

An examination of the lifestyles of female college students in 1966. Directed by Eric Rohmer.

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1968 • France

In her effervescent first California film, Agnès Varda delves into her own family history. The short documentary UNCLE YANCO features Varda tracking down a Greek emigrant relative she’s never met, discovering an artist and kindred soul leading a bohemian l...

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1970 • United States

Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton. In addition to evincing Varda’s fascination with her adopted surroundings and her empathy, this perceptive sho...

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1975 • France
Starring Agnès Varda

This 1975 short film by Agnès Varda was commissioned by the French television channel Antenne 2, which asked seven female filmmakers each to make a film in response to the question “What is a woman?”