Production

Michel Klein

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Orphan poster
5.5

A young woman moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. Grown-up at last, an accomplished woman thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.

Orphan

2017

Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students poster
NR

A major figure in contemporary feminism and the first Frenchwoman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux is seen by many as a source of individual and collective emancipation, blending the intimate with the universal. Filmmaker Claire Simon has devoted an original portrait to her, giving students and teachers a voice.

Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

2026

The Spell poster
5.8

Bruno and Céline, both mentally handicapped, live in perfect harmony in a market garden. Their daily lives are turned upside down when Lucie joins the team of educators.

The Spell

2023

Pigskin poster
7.2

Twelve sequences in the life of singer/musician Philippe Katerine.

Pigskin

2005

The Great Man poster
7.5

Sent to Afghanistan for 6 months, legionnaires Markov and Hamilton are caught in an ambush during an unauthorized expedition. Markov saves Hamilton, seriously wounded by rebel fire, but leaves the Legion without honors. Once back in Paris, Hamilton, convalescing, hopes to remain a legionnaire, while Markov, now a civilian and without working papers, tries to make ends meet with his son Khadji. Hamilton lends his identity to his Chechen friend, so that he can work legally. But one day, Markov disappears, leaving Hamiltion disorientated and Khadji alone in the world.

The Great Man

2014

The River is not a Border poster
NR

The Senegal River forms the national border between Mauritania and Senegal. In 1989, war broke out between these countries, along and around the river. Both sides committed atrocities. Senegalese filmmaker Alassane Diago was just a young child at the time. Now he brings together his “Senegalese and Mauritanian family,” all victims or witnesses of the bloodbath, so they can talk in detail about their traumatic experiences. He wants to find the truth, and to bring about reconciliation. Why did they slaughter each other, and why were so many people “deported”? Was there systemic racism involved, under the white and Arab elite? Was it a case of ethnic cleansing?

The River is not a Border

2022

Sadness Beautiful Face poster
7.0

Where we learn how Orpheus seduced Eurydice.

Sadness Beautiful Face

2004

Fragments for Venus poster
6.6

Across time, a Black woman seeks to piece together the fragments of Black female figures and, guided by Black Venus, attempts to regain control of their narrative.

Fragments for Venus

2025

Just Don't Think I'll Scream poster
6.8

January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.

Just Don't Think I'll Scream

2019

Looking for Robert poster
9.0

“I talk about my 20 years of work with the filmmaker Robert Kramer, who died in 1999. It is an account of the gestures and practices of this filmmaker. A way of recalling the central place he attributed to experience to better circumvent the pitfalls of the scenario. It is also the story of a friendship that transformed me. » (Richard Copans)

Looking for Robert

2024

La peur, petit chasseur poster
6.8

A child waits in silence in the quiet of his home garden, in the deep countryside, alongside with his German Shepherd. He looks for his mother, looks around, checks in a shed, until he sees her leaving the house. But it’s as if she doesn’t see him. Something soon brings her back into the house, and the child is left alone with his nightmares.

La peur, petit chasseur

2004

No artwork available
7.0

The portrait of a self-taught man.

Portraits, traits privés

2005

Dans la voie, Portrait d'un guide au travail poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Dans la voie, Portrait d'un guide au travail

2004

No artwork available
8.0

Both unchanging and multiform, between heaven and earth, all the shades of light, from dawn till dusk, gleam on the entangled roofs of a city with no name.

Métamorphose

2003