第69届圣塞巴斯蒂安国际电影节 获得金贝壳奖(提名)。获奖影视: 《我想聊聊杜拉斯》
第42届香港国际电影节 获得纪录片竞赛 火鸟大奖(提名)。获奖影视: 《年轻的孤寂》
第73届威尼斯电影节 获得威尼斯经典奖 最佳公映纪录片。获奖影视: 《入学考试》
Born in London in 1955, Caire Simon is a French scriptwriter, actress, cinematographer,editor and director. As a filmmaker she first directs independent shorts. Her best remembered films of the period are "La police" (1988) and "Scènes de mé****" in 1991, starring Miou-Miou. She then discovers the practice of 'direct cinema' with the Ateliers Varan and makes several documentaries such as "Les patients" (1989), Coûte que coûte (1995) and Récréations (1998), which garner multiple awards. Her first fiction feature length movie, Sinon, oui (1997), the story of a woman who pretends to be pregnant and kidnaps a child, is presented at the Cannes Film Festival Directors'Fortnight in 1997. Her next film, made for TV, Ça, c'est vraiment toi (2000), an original work, half-documentary, half-fiction, filmed within the walls of the European Parliament, is awarded the ***** prize at the Belfort Film Festival. After an experience in the theater, Claire Simon returns to documentary with 800 km de différence - Romance (2002) and Mimi (2003), presented at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003. Her second fiction film, Ça brûle (2006) was also selected for the Directors'Fortnight in 2006. In 2008, Les bureaux de Dieu (2008) is another half-fiction half-documentary work, with famous actors and actresses as the Family Planning counselors and ******* actresses impersonating real-life women who had come for **** or guidance. An atypical talent in the French movie world, Claire Simon has been trying for **** than two decades to this day - ceaselessly and successfully - to capture the essence of reality.