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Claude Barras

Director, Writer, Actor, Editor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn January 19, 1973 (53 years)
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

  • My Life as a Zucchini
  • Savages
  • Land of the Heads
  • Sainte barbe
  • La femme canon
  • Impostor
  • The Girl & The Hunter

Claude Barras Filmography

2024
Savages · as Mâle Orange-Outang

2009
C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self
2004
Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV Series) · as Self
2001
Short circuit (TV Series) · as Self
2000
L'invité (TV Series) · as Self

2016
My Life as a Zucchini · as Co-Writer
2014
Impostor · as Modeling

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