Boris Lehman Movies

Adrienne is not my mother. She is not Jewish. I met her five years ago, at Edouard’s, where I’d gone to ask my friend to lend me a dinner...

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...

The episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, Crime contre le cinéma (December 25, 2006 to December 2, 2006) is divided into...

The last day of the life of German Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The director re-routes Walter Benjamin between...

A boat ride to celebrate a birthday with friends becomes the pretext for a film shoot. A family film that quickly turns into a fable and a biblical...

Julien and Anty, two young slackers, take seven days to move three trinkets a short distance, exemplifying the strategy of least effort. They sit on...

"It's a very simple story, shot in a quiet street in Brussels. People waiting for the bus that is late, talking to each other, trusting each other,...

In a burlesque mode, the director tries to deflate the world (realized here by a globe), to level it, to put its three dimensions in two. To do this,...

Film director Boris Lehman returns to Lausanne, where he was born on 3 March 1944, at the end of the war.

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.

The film is the cinematic encounter of two looks (that of the painter Arié Mandelbaum and that of the filmmaker Boris Lehman) with one voice:...

Ulrich Gregor is filmed in his office at the Berlin Film Festival surrounded by the festival's poster (The Great Family of René Magritte).

This film takes a look at the French concentration camp at Rivesaltes. It does not deal with the site of memory but rather memories of the site...

The man carrying his body, his reels of film, his bag and his old Nikon, is Boris Lehman, he's also Sisyphus, Jesus Christ, and Ixion as told by...

With Maurice D, an enigmatic silent film that could be situated somewhere between Luis Buñuel's Un Chien andalou and Alfred Hitchcock's La Loi...

A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding...

Through many photographs, he tells the story and allows his story to be told by those photographed. This is where the brilliant documentary reversal...

Symphonie mixes fiction with reality. The author, Romain Schneid, tells the story of his own claustrophobia in front of the camera when, when he was...

Boris Lehman's funereal mask is constructed when he is alive (which therefore requires him to construct a rudimentary canal to breathe through the...

"This filme is the 'last' episode of my auto-cine-biographic work Babel, which covers more that thirty years of mu life and it started in 1983 with...