Claire Denis

Director and screenwriter. Denis studied economy, but abandoned the degree soon after. She then studied at IDHEC, the french school of film. After graduating, she worked as the asistan of Jacques Rivette, Costa-Gravas, Jim Jarmusch, and  Wim Wenders. Since 2002, Denis is profesor at The Europeand Grad School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Her debut feature film was with Chocolat (1988). A semi-autobiographical meditation about african colonialism, which was greatly acclaimed. With her movies, such as US Go Home (1994), Nénette et Boni (1996), Beau travail (1999), Trouble Every Day (2001) and Vendredi soir (2002), she established her reputation as a filmmaker that has been able to "concile the french cinema lyricism with the impulse to capture the ever so often rigid face of the contemporary France.

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