Boris Lehman Movies
- 2026

When Dad joined Mum
When Dad joined Mum02026HD
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...
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- 1987

Silent as a Fish
Silent as a Fish01987HD
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. ...
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- 1991

Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium
Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium5.41991HD
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...
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- 2005

Trying to Describe Oneself
Trying to Describe Oneself7.42005HD
Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the...
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- 2016

Lapses, Regrets and Qualms
Lapses, Regrets and Qualms02016HD
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...
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- 1970

Feesten in België
Feesten in België01970HD
Henri Storck: “The General Commissariat for Tourism had organized a ‘Year of Folklore’ and, on that occasion, asked me to make a...
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- 2011

Story of My Hair
Story of My Hair02011HD
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...
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- 2016

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...
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- 1980

Brussels-Transit
Brussels-Transit6.61980HD
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...
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- 2003

Man Carrying
Man Carrying02003HD
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...
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- 1998

The Image, The World
The Image, The World01998HD
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,...
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- 2008

Un peintre sous surveillance
Un peintre sous surveillance02008HD
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- 2012

L'Artifice et le factice
L'Artifice et le factice02012HD
"L'Artifice et le factice" is the episode that covers the period from January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 of my filmed Notebooks.
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- 2010

Cinématon n°2292 : Boris Lehman
Cinématon n°2292 : Boris Lehman02010HD
Boris Lehman’s “Cinématon” n°2292 portrait by Gérard Courant on August 29, 2010 in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France.
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- 2011

La Marelle et les Épouvantails
La Marelle et les Épouvantails02011HD
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...
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- 1984

Jean-Gina B.
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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...
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- 1985

Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman
Cinématon n°468 : Boris Lehman01985HD
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- 2010

Choses qui me rattachent aux êtres
Choses qui me rattachent aux êtres02010HD
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...
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- 1975

Mon délire, le Saint Michel
Mon délire, le Saint Michel01975HD
With an acute awareness of his condition as a mental patient, René Pacquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric...
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- 2000

When the Night Goes Tango
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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...
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