READ MORE: Phillip Lopate On Why Chantal Akerman Mattered The film world was shocked by devastating news on Tuesday when it was reported that the widely acclaimed and pioneering Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman had died at the age of 65. Last night, the U.S. premiere of Akerman’s latest, and ultimately, final film, "No Home Movie," continued as scheduled at the 53rd New York Film Festival, but news of the filmmaker’s death cast a long shadow over the night’s event. "No Home Movie" is an intimate documentary that paints a portrait of Akerman’s mother, a Holocaust survivor living in Belgium, over the last years of her life.