Claire Burger

Claire Burger
Burger in 2024
Born1978 (age 47–48)
Forbach, Lorraine, France
OccupationsFilm director, screenwriter, film editor, cinematographer
Years active2006–present

Claire Burger (born 1978)[1] is a French film director, film editor and screenwriter.[2] She received the Camera d'Or award for her debut feature film Party Girl at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

Biography

After working as a video journalist, Claire Burger trained at La Fémis in the editing department, graduating in 2008.

Her first short film, Forbach, was awarded at the Cannes Film Festival[4] by the Cinéfondation jury chaired by Hou Hsiao-hsien,[5] and won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. The film was inspired by the life of the Theis family and featured the real-life members of that family playing themselves.[6]

Burger then co-directed C'est gratuit pour les filles (2009) with Marie Amachoukeli (a 2007 graduate of La Fémis's screenwriting department),[7] which won the César Award for Best Short Film the following year.

In 2014, she shot her debut feature film, Party Girl, in Moselle-Est. The film was co-directed with Marie Amachoukeli and Samuel Theis. All the actors in the film were non-professionals living in Moselle and Saarland. In a similar style to Forbach, the film is freely inspired by the life of Angélique Litzemburger.[8] The film opened the Un Certain Regard section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival,[9] where it won the Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Ensemble[10] and the Caméra d'Or.[11]

In 2018, she directed her second feature film, Real Love (C'est ça l'amour). Centered on a father raising his two daughters alone after being left by his wife, the film was loosely inspired by the director's own family[12] and received strong critical acclaim. It won an award at the Venice Film Festival in the parallel Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section. At the 2018 Les Arcs Film Festival, the jury chaired by Ruben Östlund presented the film with three awards. Its lead actor, Bouli Lanners, was honored with the Magritte Award for Best Actor in February 2020.

In 2020, as a tribute to Henri-Georges Clouzot's unfinished film L'Enfer, she directed the music video for the song "De mon âme à ton âme"[13] by Kompromat featuring Adèle Haenel.

Her third feature film, Foreign Language (Langue étrangère), was shot in 2023 in Strasbourg and Leipzig. The film, which follows a Franco-German language exchange between two adolescent girls, made its world premiere in official competition at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale 2024).[14]

Personal life

In an interview with Radio Nova, Claire Burger stated that she discovered her lesbian identity around the age of 13.[15]

Filmography

Director

Year Title Notes
2008 Forbach Short film
2009 Toute ma vie j'ai rêvé Short film
2009 It's Free for Girls Short film
2013 Demolition Party Short film
2014 Party Girl Camera d'Or (shared with Marie Amachoukeli and Samuel Theis)
2018 Real Love
2024 Langue Étrangère It was screened in Competition at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2024.[16]

Writer

Year Title Notes
2008 Forbach Short film
2009 Toute ma vie j'ai rêvé Short film
2009 It's Free for Girls Short film
2013 Demolition Party Short film
2014 Party Girl Prix Jacques Prévert du Scénario
2018 Real Love
2024 Langue Étrangère

Actress

Year Title Role Notes
2021 Petite nature Claire

References

  1. ↑ Fabre, Clarisse (21 February 2024). "« Langue étrangère », de Claire Burger, un teen movie franco-allemand taillé sur mesure pour la Berlinale" ["Foreign Language", by Claire Burger, a Franco-German teen movie tailor-made for the Berlinale]. Le Monde (in French).
  2. ↑ "Cinéma : Claire Burger dans le grand bain du 7ème art". france bleu. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "2014 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Forbach de Claire Burger". Format Court (in French). 8 December 2009. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  5. ↑ "FORBACH". Festival de Cannes (in French). Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  6. ↑ "Projets soutenus : Marie Amachoukeli/ Claire Burger / Samuel Theis". Ateliers premiers plans d'Angers. 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  7. ↑ Judith Silberfeld (2010). "Rencontre avec Marie Amachoukeli et Claire Burger, César 2010 du meilleur court métrage". Yagg. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  8. ↑ "Projets soutenus : Marie Amachoukeli/ Claire Burger / Samuel Theis". Ateliers premiers plans d'Angers. 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  9. ↑ "'Party Girl', un premier film en ouverture du Certain Regard". Festival de Cannes. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  10. ↑ "Palmarès Un certain regard". Festival de Cannes. 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "Palmarès 2014". Festival de Cannes. 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  12. ↑ Olivia Cohen (20 January 2020). "Témoignage - Justine Lacroix, lycéenne mosellane, pré-sélectionnée aux César 2020". francebleu.fr.
  13. ↑ Marthe Chalard-Malgorn (5 February 2020). "Kompromat sort un clip sublime avec l'actrice Adèle Haenel". tsugi.fr.
  14. ↑ "« Langue étrangère », de Claire Burger, un teen movie franco-allemand taillé sur mesure pour la Berlinale". Le Monde (in French). 21 February 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  15. ↑ Géraldine Sarratia (4 March 2019). "Claire Burger : « Le trip-hop et le grunge étaient très peu genrés »". Radio Nova.
  16. ↑ Ntim, Zac (22 January 2024). "Berlin Reveals 2024 Competition Lineup: Rooney Mara, Mati Diop, Isabelle Huppert, Abderrahmane Sissako Movies Among Selection". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
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