Directing
Claude Barras
FR, TR, XX, EN cinema · 16 credits
Born
19 January 1973 (age 53)
Birthplace
Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
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.
Known for
Filmography
La vie en rose
You're Not the One I Expected
Director, Screenplay
Savages
as Mâle orange-outang (voice), Writer, Director, Editor
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Consulting Producer
My Life as a Zucchini
Director, Co-Writer
Impostor
Producer, Modeling
Room 69
Executive Producer, Director
Land of the Heads
Director, Executive Producer
Making of du génie de la boîte de raviolis
2007
Making of the Genie in a Ravioli Can
as Self
Sainte Barbe
Director, Producer
Animatou
Animation, Director, Director of Photography
Spud
Screenplay, Director
Banquise
Director, Animation
The Genie in a Tin of Ravioli
Director, Screenplay