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name: "Chantal Akerman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chantal-akerman"
fi1m_id: "chantal-akerman"
imdb_id: "nm0001901"
tmdb_id: 130030
wikidata_id: "Q239823"
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "6 June 1950"
died: "5 October 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T03:18:37.946929+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Chantal Akerman

## Identity

Chantal Akerman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chantal-akerman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chantal-akerman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0001901
- **TMDB ID:** 130030
- **Wikidata ID:** Q239823
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Akerman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239823, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001901/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130030

Director and writer. Born 6 June 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. Died 5 October 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 6 June 1950, Brussels, Belgium
- **Died:** 5 October 2015
- **Active:** 1976–2000
- **Also known as:** Chantal Anne Akerman, Chantal Ackerman, 샹탈 아커만, 샹탈 아케르만, 샹탈 애커만
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Akerman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239823, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001901/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130030

## Biography

Chantal Akerman (also credited as Chantal Anne Akerman) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and artist. She was born in Brussels on 6 June 1950 and died in Paris on 5 October 2015.

Akerman is best known for *Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles* (1975), which she directed and wrote, and for which she provided an uncredited voice performance. Other notable works include *Je tu il elle* (1974), *News from Home* (1977), *The Meetings of Anna* (1978) and *The Captive* (2000), all of which she directed and wrote. She began her career with the short *Saute ma ville* (1968) after briefly attending film school in Brussels.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Captive* (2000), Fi1m 72, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-captive.md)

## Complete filmography (77)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Morceaux de Cannes* (2021), Actor
- *Porto* (2017), as (voice)
- *No Home Movie* (2016), Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Producer, Sound
- *Now* (2015), Director
- *What Lies Beneath the Sky* (2015), as Narrator(voice)
- *My Mother Laughs Prelude* (2012), Director
- *Almayer's Folly* (2012), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Les variations Dielman* (2010), Thanks
- *On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!* (2010), Co-Director
- *Maniac Summer* (2009), Director, Cinematography, Editor
- *East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton* (2009), Director
- *The State of the World* (2007), Director, Director of Photography
- *Nightfall in Shanghai* (2007), Director
- *Interview with Babette Mangolte* (2007), Director
- *Interview with my Mother, Natalia Akerman* (2007), Director
- *Interview with Aurore Clément* (2007), Director
- *Down There* (2006), Director, Writer, Cinematography
- *Chantal Akerman, an autobiography* (2006), Actor
- *Tomorrow We Move* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Making of Tomorrow We Move* (2004), Director
- *With Sonia Wieder-Atherton* (2003), Director
- *From the Other Side* (2003), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- *The Captive* (2000), Director, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-captive.md)
- *No Vladimir* (2000), Supervising Producer
- *South* (1999), Director, Writer
- *Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman* (1997), Director
- *The Day When...* (1997), Writer, Director
- *A Couch in New York* (1996), Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
- *Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the '60s in Brussels* (1994), Director, Writer
- *All the Boys and Girls of Their Time* (1994), series, Director
- *From the East* (1993), Director, Writer
- *Moving In* (1993), Director, Writer
- *Monologues* (1993), series, Director
- *Lest We Forget* (1991), Director
- *Night and Day* (1991), Director, Writer
- *For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador* (1991), Director
- *American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy* (1989), Director
- *One Day Pina Asked...* (1989), Director
- *Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas* (1989), Director
- *Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher* (1989), Director
- *L'inhumaine* (1987), as -
- *Golden Eighties* (1986), Director, Writer
- *Portrait of a Lazy Woman* (1986), Director, Writer
- *Seven Women, Seven Sins* (1986), Film Director (segment Portrait d'une Paresseuse), Director, Writer
- *Mallet-Stevens Street* (1986), Director, Writer
- *Letters Home* (1986), Director
- *The Hammer* (1986), Director
- *She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps* (1985), Actor
- *The Eighties* (1985), Director, Writer
- *Family Business* (1984), Writer, Director
- *Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman* (1984), Director
- *I'm Hungry, I'm Cold* (1984), Director
- *Paris Seen By... 20 Years After* (1984), Director
- *The Man with the Suitcase* (1983), as The Woman · Director, Writer
- *Toute une nuit* (1982), Director, Screenplay
- *Hôtel des Acacias* (1982), Writer, Production Supervisor, Co-Director
- *Tell Me* (1980), Director
- *Grands mères* (1980), series, Director
- *The Meetings of Anna* (1978), Director, Writer
- *Hotel Monterey* (1976), Director, Writer, Producer
- *News from Home* (1976), Director, Writer
- *Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles* (1976), as Neighbor (voice) (uncredited) · Director, Writer
- *Chantal Akerman: An Interview* (1976), as Chantal Akerman
- *Around Jeanne Dielman* (1975), Editor
- *Je Tu Il Elle* (1974), as Julie · Writer, Director, Producer
- *‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen* (1974), Actor
- *Le 15/8* (1973), Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
- *Hanging Out Yonkers* (1973), Writer, Director
- *La chambre* (1972), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman* (1971), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Untitled* (1970), Director
- *Saute ma ville* (1968), as The Girl · Director
- *Examen d'entrée INSAS* (1967), Director
- *Knokke: Une petite fiction 2* (1967), Director
- *Knokke: Une petite fiction* (1967), Director
- *Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn* (1967), Director
- *Bruxelles: À la Foire du Midi* (1967), Director

## Gallery

- ![Chantal Akerman](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-0065d9674776.jpg) Chantal Akerman — Mario De Munck, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Chantal_Akerman_-_video_still_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Chantal AKERMAN en octobre 2011 au Festival international du film francophone de Namur.](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-a1dbeefaef9f.jpg) Chantal AKERMAN en octobre 2011 au Festival international du film francophone de Namur. — Michaël Bemelmans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Chantal_AKERMAN_en_octobre_2011_au_FIFF_de_Namur.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![chantal akerman (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-98019a82bc0d.jpg) chantal akerman (2018) — Gorup de Besanez, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Akerman.jpg/1280px-Akerman.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chantal Akerman](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-c8f890f7fecc.jpg) Chantal Akerman — Image via TMDB
- ![Chantal Akerman](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-3ff3e6ffe8dc.jpg) Chantal Akerman — Image via TMDB
- ![Chantal Akerman](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-663e0576ff55.jpg) Chantal Akerman — Image via TMDB
- ![Chantal Akerman](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-33aac61af458.jpg) Chantal Akerman — Image via TMDB
- ![Chantal Akerman](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-b8d9664bcd72.jpg) Chantal Akerman — Image via TMDB
- ![Chantal Akerman](https://film.one/media/person/3919783/gallery-d3978a53e267.jpg) Chantal Akerman — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Commander of the Order of Leopold 2004: Commander of the Order of Leopold (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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