Claude Barras
Nacimiento : 1973-01-19, Sierre, Switzerland
Historia
Claude Barras was born in Sierre, Switzerland. He studied illustration and computer graphics at École Emile Cohl in Lyon. He received a degree in anthropology and digital images from Lyon, studied computer graphics at ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne) and worked as a freelance illustrator in Geneva.
Throughout his career, Barras directed several short films, including The Genie in a Ravioli Can (2006). Barras' first full-length animated feature, My Life as a Courgette (2016), was presented at the Director's Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival and received numerous awards at film festivals around the world. The film was selected as Switzerland's oficial entry for the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Co-Writer
Calabacín es un niño valiente que después de perder a su madre tiene que ingresar en un hogar de acogida, con otros niños huérfanos de su edad. En un primer momento se esfuerza por encontrar su lugar en este nuevo medio hostil. Sin embargo, con la ayuda de sus nuevos amigos, Calabacín aprende a confiar, encuentra el verdadero amor y una nueva familia.
Director
Calabacín es un niño valiente que después de perder a su madre tiene que ingresar en un hogar de acogida, con otros niños huérfanos de su edad. En un primer momento se esfuerza por encontrar su lugar en este nuevo medio hostil. Sin embargo, con la ayuda de sus nuevos amigos, Calabacín aprende a confiar, encuentra el verdadero amor y una nueva familia.
Producer
Linda is a little girl rejected by other children and by her family. She lives in a small town where a serial killer is prowling. But one day, she sees a strange character on the street carrying a bag with an arm hanging out of it.
Director
A roads leads through a barren desert landscape. A car parks in front of a motel. A man with a box under his arm gets out and storms into room 69…
Producer
Executive Producer
Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes wrinkles, in the most extreme way.
Director
Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes wrinkles, in the most extreme way.
Producer
Little bald Léon loves his grandfather. He loves the old man's bushy black beard, which seems endowed with magic powers.
Director
Little bald Léon loves his grandfather. He loves the old man's bushy black beard, which seems endowed with magic powers.
Director
Screenplay
Screenplay
Armand works on the assembly-line of a tinned pasta factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps forth, promising to fulfill any two wishes.
Director
Armand works on the assembly-line of a tinned pasta factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps forth, promising to fulfill any two wishes.
Director
Short film shown in Cannes.
Writer
Kéria (11), a vivid indigenous girl, finds an orphaned baby orang-outan, Oshi in the jungle of Borneo. To keep him safe she brings him to a close-by reserve. But her ambitious father, working as a woodsman, cooperates with a poacher in order to steal the baby. Oshi should be a present to his company’s director. Kéria flees her home with Oshi in search of the protective wooded mountains. She tries to reunite with her beloved grandfather, one of the last hunter-gatherers. But the journey is filled with obstacles. Kéria finally needs to understand, the only way for Oshi to survive in the wilderness, is letting him go. "Savages!" is the story of a friendship larger than life.
Director
When Julien discovers that his newborn daughter, Rose, carries an undiagnosed down syndrome, his entire world collapses. How can he cope with his daughter’s handicap? Will he be able to love her fully, even though she isn’t the child he expected? Supported by his first-born daughter Alice, guided by her innocence and her infinite goodwill, the young father finds the strength to overcome his anger, and travel the difficult road that will lead him to the unconditional love and acceptance of his child.
Director
Kéria (11), a vivid indigenous girl, finds an orphaned baby orang-outan, Oshi in the jungle of Borneo. To keep him safe she brings him to a close-by reserve. But her ambitious father, working as a woodsman, cooperates with a poacher in order to steal the baby. Oshi should be a present to his company’s director. Kéria flees her home with Oshi in search of the protective wooded mountains. She tries to reunite with her beloved grandfather, one of the last hunter-gatherers. But the journey is filled with obstacles. Kéria finally needs to understand, the only way for Oshi to survive in the wilderness, is letting him go. "Savages!" is the story of a friendship larger than life.
