Boris Lehman Movies

With a keen awareness of his mentally ill condition, René Paquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric hospitals,...

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...

Boris Lehman’s “Cinématon” n°34 portrait by Gérard Courant on October 17, 1978 in Paris, France.

To escape the dreary daily routine of city life, where she no longer finds meaning in her life, a filmmaker sets out in search of her own film, using...

A wordless travel on a barge from Clabecq to Ruisbroek. This is the Boris Lehman’s student movie done for the INSAS school.

A family of Polish-Jewish refugees arrives in Brussels in 1947 to navigate the challenges of postwar survival. Guided by a maternal voice-over, the...

The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South...

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

Sarajevo, 1993. Haska is 28 years old. She loves Elvir, but even more so their 8-year-old son Denis, who has taken center stage in her life since the...

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

A short ciné-tract made by Boris Lehman in homage to the films of May '68.

Histoire de mes cheveux ended with a shot where I found myself locked in a concentration camp. I had said shortly before that I was glad I finally...

This is the story of a double spell. Are scarecrows not the remains of the living dead whose souls are trying to escape to ascend to heaven? The game...

A collage film, a dialogue between mother and the unborn child, the film can be seen as a personal self-analysis by René Paquot, who dreamily...

"There are people who never go and sit on a public bench and there are people who sometimes go and sit on a public bench. These are very different...

A dialogue based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of themselves...

How to talk about History, the big one and the small one, ours and that of each of us? Watching television, browsing the Internet, rummaging through...

With an acute awareness of his condition as a mental patient, René Pacquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric...