Biography
Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 - 8 June 2020) was a French-born Belgian film director, producer, actress and screenwriter.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Whaler Boy
2020
Co-Producer
Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for th...

The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light
2020
Producer
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pompidou which will be dedicated to him in 2020, this ...

Mother
2020
Co-Producer
In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth du...

Par-delà les nuages – Le cinéma de Marion Hänsel
2019
as Self
On the basis of conversations with Hänsel and some of her permanent crew members, a remarkable portrait is created of a filmmaker who is also her own ...

There Was a Little Ship
2019
as voice
A woman, hospitalized for a relatively long period, observes what surrounds her. She has time to dream, to revisit certain moments of her life. These ...

There Was a Little Ship
2019
Director, Writer
A woman, hospitalized for a relatively long period, observes what surrounds her. She has time to dream, to revisit certain moments of her life. These ...

¡Ay, Carmen!
2018
as Self - Filmmaker
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant arti...

Zagros
2017
Co-Producer
Zagros (26) is a shepherd who lives in a Kurdish village with his pregnant wife Havin and their daughter. His father tells him that people gossip abou...

Upstream
2017
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the o...

La tendresse
2013
Director, Writer, Producer
This is the first film by Hänsel based entirely on her own script and gives a wise and loving significance to the concept of personal and anecdotal. W...

Black Ocean
2011
Director, Writer
Though its aftertitles detailing the history of French nuke experiments suggest otherwise, writer/director Marion Hänsel’s Black Ocean is not a politi...

Cirkus Columbia
2010
Co-Producer
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile in Germany for the past twenty years, returns to ...

Sounds of Sand
2007
Director, Screenplay
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The vi...

Hell
2005
Producer
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

Gilles' Wife
2004
Writer
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he...

25 Degrees in Winter
2004
Producer
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. He ends up helping her to find her husband who had ...

Jane Birkin... Mother of All Babes
2003
Thanks
A documentary directed by Birkin's friend, who produced the Birkin's Arabesque concert at the Odeon in Paris as well as published a book of photos of ...

Clouds: Letters to My Son
2001
Writer, Director
Marion Hänsel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic musings...

No Man's Land
2001
Co-Producer
Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefir...

Come Undone
2000
Associate Producer
Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-ol...

The Quarry
1998
Director, Writer
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
1995
Director, Screenplay, Delegated Producer
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.

Between Heaven and Earth
1992
Director, Writer
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down e...
Hostel Party
1990
Producer
How to take revenge on the person who murdered you...

Blueberry Hill
1989
Associate Producer
Antwerp in the fifties. Robin de Hert grew up in a Catholic parochial environment; on the one hand there is his authoritarian father and the sadistic ...

Il maestro
1989
Director
A renowned conductor suddenly pulls out of an evening rehearsal of Madame Butterfly. The opera director senses something is going on and forces the mu...

The Cruel Embrace
1987
Director, Producer, Scenario Writer
Ludovic is the son of Nicole, a single mother who married Micho, a man older than her. He agreed to adopt her son. Ludo is the scapegoat of Tatave, fi...

Dust
1985
Director, Writer, Producer
A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.

Mauvaises réponses
1985
Marion Hänsel was cast for this story of a man's job interview for an important position in a company that doesn't go the way he expected.

Mauvaises réponses
1985
Producer
Marion Hänsel was cast for this story of a man's job interview for an important position in a company that doesn't go the way he expected.
The Silent Pacific
1984
Producer
Unrelenting pessimism dominates this slow-paced, dark film, the debut feature from director Digna Sinke dedicated to an archetypal born loser named Ma...

Le Lit
1982
as Tilly
Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his se...

Le Lit
1982
Director, Screenplay
Martin, a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his se...

Pol. Bru.
1980

One Sings, the Other Doesn't
1977
as Pregnant Tightrope Walker
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suza...

Equilibres
1977
Writer, Director, Producer
A silent teenage girl who works as a tightrope walker tries to keep her balance while crossing Paris.
Berthe
1976
as La servante
Berthe, a pretty young woman, has suffered from a mental disease since she was a child. A doctor has tried for years to understand her behavior and to...
Palaver
1970
as Village girl
"Palaver" tells us the day of three Congolese students (Albert, Victor and Marcel) who visit Bruges for a tour of the city, and end up on the beaches ...