Films produced by Paradise Films

In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel’s delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by...

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and...

In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily...

A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.

Ana bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star.

Akerman spends a month in Tel Aviv, in an apartment by the sea, contemplating childhood, family, and her Jewish identity.

Akerman, by using 360° camera pans, explores the space of a small room like a succession of still lifes : a chair, fruits on a table, solitary...

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and...

A married biology professor goes back to her ex boyfriend who is still in love with her. When a secret is revealed, she cannot decide between...

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in...

A burnt-out New York psychoanalyst exchanges apartments with a Parisian woman. When his patients arrive, they talk to her and then pay. He returns...

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping...

Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she...

Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old...

Life at the ordinary backyard in Yerevan. Two hours of non-stop jokes and music.

In 1940s Malaysia, European merchant Kaspar Almayer is obsessed with finding a treasure to secure his daughter's future. His dreams fall victim to...

Jack and Julie live in a bare Parisian flat. By day, they make love; by night, Jack is a taxi driver while Julie wanders the city. One day, Julie...

Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl

What a revelation and a privilege it is to see Chantal Akerman at work. Its French title a pun, this film offers behind-the-scenes footage from the...

In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance.