Jean Genet Movies

Non-professional players try to create the poetic world of Jean Genet in filmic terms.

In the 1930s, within a prison cell somewhere in Europe, young inmate P. spends his days reading about murderers in newspapers while eagerly awaiting...

A short documentary about the 4th Shiraz Arts Festival and its series of performances that took place in September 1970.

Fragments of a text by Jean Genet – “Four Hours in Chatila” – are illustrated by summer images of a park in Brussels. The...

A sleeping boxer on a train dreams of a victorious fight. Inspired by a lost poem by Jean Genet.

In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of...