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Claude Barras is a Swiss director, producer, and writer of animated films. He is best known for My Life as a Courgette, which was nominated for an Oscar and won several awards.
Claude Barras is known for My Life as a Zucchini (2016), Land of the Heads (2009) and Sauvages (2024).
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.
Born in Sierre on January 19, 1973, Claude Barras is a Swiss film director and producer. The son and grandson of farmers, he studied childrens’ illustration at the Émile Cohl school, anthropology and digital images at the Lumière University in Lyon, and 3D computer graphics at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne.
17 Mei 2016 · interview: Claude Barras film profile] premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at the 69 th Cannes Film Festival, Swiss director Claude Barras sat down with Cineuropa to discuss the journey he undertook while creating his first feature film, a moving and original animation with a positive approach to a harsh childhood.
18 Mei 2024 · Sauvages (Savages) is presented as a Special Screening. The island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. One day, at the edge of the immense tropical forest where she lives, 11-year-old Kéria discovers an abandoned baby orangutan in her father’s palm tree operation.
Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Animator, Production Designer, Character Designer, Editor. Email. klodbarras@gmail.com. Born in 1973 in Sierre, Switzerland. Studied illustration and computer graphics at École Emile Cohl in Lyon.
