Agnès Varda (French: [aɲɛs vaʁda]; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, photographer and artist. Her work was pioneering for, and central to, the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s.[1] Her films focused on achieving documentary realism,[2] addressing feminist issues, and/or producing other social commentary, with a distinctive experimental style.