Boris Lehman Movies

  • 2026
    When Dad joined Mum

    When Dad joined Mum

    When Dad joined Mum

    02026HD

    From his birth in the South of France up to his military service, “When Dad joined Mum” retraces the first twenty years of Eric’s...

    When Dad joined Mum
  • 1987
    Silent as a Fish

    Silent as a Fish

    Silent as a Fish

    01987HD

    From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. ...

    Silent as a Fish
  • 1991
    Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium

    Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium

    Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium

    5.41991HD

    The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of...

    Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium
  • 2005
    Trying to Describe Oneself

    Trying to Describe Oneself

    Trying to Describe Oneself

    7.42005HD

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

    Trying to Describe Oneself
  • 2016
    Lapses, Regrets and Qualms

    Lapses, Regrets and Qualms

    Lapses, Regrets and Qualms

    02016HD

    A day in the life of director Boris Lehman: he wanders from cafe to bookshop, cinema to museum, writer to musician, and into the storeroom of the...

    Lapses, Regrets and Qualms
  • 1970
    Feesten in België

    Feesten in België

    Feesten in België

    01970HD

    Henri Storck: “The General Commissariat for Tourism had organized a ‘Year of Folklore’ and, on that occasion, asked me to make a...

    Feesten in België
  • 2011
    Story of My Hair

    Story of My Hair

    Story of My Hair

    02011HD

    The story of my hair can be told in two lines. My hair was long and black. It has turned white. It hasn't been cut since 1982, almost thirty years...

    Story of My Hair
  • 2016
    Funeral (On the Art of Dying)

    Funeral (On the Art of Dying)

    Funeral (On the Art of Dying)

    02016HD

    "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...

    Funeral (On the Art of Dying)
  • 1980
    Brussels-Transit

    Brussels-Transit

    Brussels-Transit

    6.61980HD

    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...

    Brussels-Transit
  • 2003
    Man Carrying

    Man Carrying

    Man Carrying

    02003HD

    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...

    Man Carrying
  • 1998
    The Image, The World

    The Image, The World

    The Image, The World

    01998HD

    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,...

    The Image, The World
  • 2008
    Un peintre sous surveillance

    Un peintre sous surveillance

    Un peintre sous surveillance

    02008HD

    Un peintre sous surveillance
  • 2012
    L'Artifice et le factice

    L'Artifice et le factice

    L'Artifice et le factice

    02012HD

    "L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks.

    L'Artifice et le factice
  • 2010
    Cinématon n°2292 : Boris Lehman

    Cinématon n°2292 : Boris Lehman

    Cinématon n°2292 : Boris Lehman

    02010HD

    Boris Lehman’s “Cinématon” n°2292 portrait by Gérard Courant on August 29, 2010 in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France.

    Cinématon n°2292 : Boris Lehman
  • 2011
    La Marelle et les Épouvantails

    La Marelle et les Épouvantails

    La Marelle et les Épouvantails

    02011HD

    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...

    La Marelle et les Épouvantails
  • 1984
    Jean-Gina B.

    Jean-Gina B.

    Jean-Gina B.

    101984HD

    This film is based on the true story of Jean Bella, who served as an officer in the Belgian Marine while being convinced, from an early age, that he...

    Jean-Gina B.
  • 1985
    Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman

    Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman

    Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman

    01985HD

    Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman
  • 2010
    Choses qui me rattachent aux êtres

    Choses qui me rattachent aux êtres

    Choses qui me rattachent aux êtres

    02010HD

    The filmmaker does an inventory of the objects he has received from his friends or relatives. Through that variety of things that binds him and his...

    Choses qui me rattachent aux êtres
  • 1975
    Mon délire, le Saint Michel

    Mon délire, le Saint Michel

    Mon délire, le Saint Michel

    01975HD

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

    Mon délire, le Saint Michel
  • 2000
    When the Night Goes Tango

    When the Night Goes Tango

    When the Night Goes Tango

    92000HD

    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...

    When the Night Goes Tango