Claire Simon

Elementary (2025)

In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible c ...

Our Body (2023)

In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women's bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life. Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of ...

I Want to Talk About Duras (2022)

In 1982, Yann Andréa and Marguerite Duras have been living together for two years. She is almost 70 years old, while he is 38 years her junior. Andréa asks journalist and writer Michèle Manceaux to interview him about his life with Duras, an obsession t ...

The Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World (2021)

Claire Simon goes to Lussas, in France's Ardèche, home to a vibrant community of documentarians. She films the creation of Tënk, an online platform for auteur documentaries. The initiative is a labour of love for the passionate and optimistic people behi ...

Garage, Engines, and Men (2021)

A small picturesque Provençal village. Certainly, I grew up there, but today life seems to have somewhat deserted it. Except for the car and motorcycle repair garage where everyone, I mean the men, come to have their car serviced. What do they do ? What ...

Young Solitude (2018)

Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age. Set in the Paris suburbs in high school (for those lucky enough to go), teenagers chat after and even during class, sitting in the hallway or outside on a bench, lookin ...

The Competition (2017)

An all-access tour behind the scenes at France's premiere film school, La Fémis. Showing us how successful candidates get to follow in the footsteps of such luminaries as Louis Malle, François Ozon and Alain Resnais, all of whom attended this prestigious ...

The Woods Dreams Are Made of (2016)

Le Bois de Vincennes is a safe harbour for many Parisians. Migrants and natives, prostitutes and stalkers, rich and poor, old and young, downshifters and loners come to this forest in search of themselves and find there an escape from the metropolis. A del ...

Gare du Nord (2013)

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet here... ...

Human Geography (2013)

Gare du Nord in Paris is a transit station for all those coming from the suburbs, the provinces or abroad. Accompanied by Simon Mérabet, the son of Algerian immigrants from the Var, Human Geography offers a series of brief meetings with individuals who re ...

God's Offices (2008)

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women. ...

Ça brûle (2006)

After falling off her horse, a teenage girl is rescued by a manly, older fireman with whom she falls in love with tragic consequences. ...

A Home at the End of the World (2004)

Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three. ...

Mimi (2003)

Mimi isn't a star, she's just someone. A close-up of the singularity of a real life. An encounter of someone's particular story, romance, fantasy and territories. ...

800 Km De Différence - Romance (2002)

Manon, 15, meets Greg, 17, while on vacation. He lives in Claviers, a little village in France's Haut-Var region, while she lives in Paris. Greg and Manon are in love. This is a portrait of a young man who comes alive when his girlfriend is with him, for i ...

Ça, c'est vraiment toi (2000)

After studying political science in Paris, Antoine decides to go to Strasbourg to become a parliamentary assistant at the European Parliament. His motivation: to find his ex-girlfriend Cleo, who is a television editor. Half-documentary, half-fiction, with ...

Sinon, oui (1997)

Based on a true story this emotionally wrenching character study focuses upon a desperate young wife who feigns an entire pregnancy in hopes of convincing her dissatisfied husband to remain with her. Magali's problem comes from the fact that she is so blan ...

At All Costs (1995)

A small company valiantly struggles to survive under the respectful yet probing camera of Claire Simon in "At All Costs." As the docu opens, founder and manager Jihad is off to see his banker. The lack of ready cash to pay his loyal employees, wholesale pr ...

Récréations (1993)

As French kindergarteners pour forth for recess, play takes on epic proportions. In every corner, some miniature drama is unfolding. Violence, love, jealousy, treachery are all here! This is human society in the making. ...

Histoire de Marie (1993)

Something extraordinary happened to Marie... and it wasn't what she thought. As she does every day, Marie went to the cellar to fetch the broom to sweep the passage. She doesn't like going down to the cellar, however. One day she saw squatters, one of them ...

The Wheel (1993)

Scènes de ménage (1991)

A woman cleans her house, from time to time, when she can, like everyone else. When her hands are busy, she dreams, she makes a wish that she immediately grants in her mind. ...

Les patients (1990)

The story of the last month of work of a popular generalist doctor of Reims. Just before his retirement. The film shows the doctor with his old patients, or alcoholics anonymous he had follow. ...

Agosto (1988)

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time. ...

La police (1988)

A girl tries to help her babysitter out of trouble. ...

Une journee de vacances (1983)

Claire Simon films her ill father during his day: from breakfasting with his nurse to his evening phone calls, when it's time for his daughter to return to the city. An intimate, brave film conceived as a salutation. ...

Subterfuge (1983)

After committing a hit and run, a man insinuates himself into the lives of the victim's family. ...

Mon cher Simon (1982)

Simon is an Algerian man who has moved to the south of France. Simon roams from house to house in the town, considered by everyone to be the "idiot of the village". Simon is in search of not only a job but also acceptance in the society where he finds hims ...

Moi non ou l’argent de Patricia (1981)

Portrait of a young woman through her relationship to money. The director films her friend for a whole month. The dynamic of the film is based on the bond between the director and Patricia, and on the reactions of this young woman to the financial diffic ...

Plogoff, Stones Against Rifles (1980)

February 1980, Plogoff. A whole town refuses the installation of a nuclear power station close to the Pointe du Raz, overlooking Sein island in the bay of Audierne opening onto the Atlantic Ocean. Six weeks of daily struggle led by local women, children, f ...

Tandis que j’agonise (1980)

Free adaptation of Faulkner's novel aroused by the Patrick Henry and Ranucci cases. ...

Madeleine (1976)

The girl who loved chocolate... ...

Our Body (2023)

In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women's bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life. Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of ...

Uno sguardo alla Terra (2018)

Sardinia 2017. The starting point for the film is one of the most loved lands in the Mediterranean, using it to enter into the world of cinema. Ten international masters of cinema explain Fiorenzo Serra's images, one of the greatest post-war Italian docume ...

Human Geography (2013)

Gare du Nord in Paris is a transit station for all those coming from the suburbs, the provinces or abroad. Accompanied by Simon Mérabet, the son of Algerian immigrants from the Var, Human Geography offers a series of brief meetings with individuals who re ...

Mimi (2003)

Mimi isn't a star, she's just someone. A close-up of the singularity of a real life. An encounter of someone's particular story, romance, fantasy and territories. ...

Un petit cas de conscience (2002)

Two lesbians are victims of a break-in. Together with their clan of friends, they undertake a wild investigation, with suspense and rigour, to arrive at the truth. Sensitivities are aroused around life choices, and political choices. Questions of morality ...

Quand je serai jeune (1988)

May 68. While, outside, people are demonstrating, a man is finishing the editing of Baisers volés. ...