The French filmmaker Claire Denis joins the Lab jury 2019

Claire Denis is a French filmmaker et scriptwriter who forged a solid reputation in the cinema industry. With 13 feature films and about ten short films as a director, all praised by the critics and the general public alike, she is one of these filmmakers who impose their own vision. She also enjoys meeting her team and her actors anew in the course of her cinema journeys : Grégoire Colin, Alex Descas, Vincent Gallo or the band Tindersticks, which composed some of her soundtracks.

Claire Denis on the set of Bastards – © Camille du Chesnay

Graduated from the IDHEC (Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques, twhich is now the french cinema school La fémis) in 1972, she starts a career as an assistant director with some famous filmmakers and works on some films we can consider as cult today : Le vieux fusil by Robert Enrico (1975), Hanna K. by Costa-Gavras (1983), Paris, Texas (1984) and Les ailes du désir (1987) by Wim Wenders, and Down by Lawby Jim Jarmusch (1986).

Her debut feature film Chocolat (1988) is a semi-autobiographical meditation on African colonialism, and was selected and acclaimed by the Cannes film festival. Some of her most famous films are Beau travail (1999) Trouble Everyday (2001), 35 rhums (2008), White Material (2009) and her last one, which came out in theatres in 2013, Les salauds (Bastards), screened in the Un Certain regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.

Trailer of Bastards