Sans Soleil (, "Sunless") is a
1983 French documentary directed by
Chris Marker, a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. In a 2014
Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted
Sans Soleil the third best documentary film of all time. The title
Sans Soleil is from the song cycle
Sunless by
Modest Mussorgsky.