No Home Movie

Synopsis

This film is above all about my mother, my mother who is no longer with us. About this woman who arrived in Belgium in 1938, fleeing Poland, the pogroms and the violence. This woman who is only ever seen inside her apartment. An apartment in Brussels. A film about a world in motion that my mother does not see.

Director Biography

A Belgian filmmaker born in Brussels, Chantal Akerman studied at INSAS (Institut supérieur des Arts, du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion) before emigrating to New York. She has made documentaries such as Hôtel Monterey (1972), News From Home (1977) and Down There (2006) nominated for a César as well as fiction films including Jeanne Dielmann 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), A Couch in New York (1996), The Captive (2000) and Almayer’s Folly (2011).