Directing
Community Rating
6.2
TMDB estimate
Born
January 19, 1973 (age 53)
Born in
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.
You're Not the One I Expected
as Director, Screenplay
TBA
—Ulis
as Director
TBA
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Savages
as Mâle orange-outang (voice), Writer, Director, Editor
2024
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Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
as Consulting Producer
2023
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My Life as a Zucchini
as Director, Co-Writer
2016
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Impostor
as Producer, Modeling
2014
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Monsieur l'assassin X
as Producer
2013
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Room 69
as Executive Producer, Director
2012
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The Girl and the Hunter
as Producer
2010
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Land of the Heads
as Director, Executive Producer
2009
—Making of the Genie in a Ravioli Can
as Self
2007
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Animatou
as Animation, Director, Director of Photography
2007
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Sainte Barbe
as Producer, Director
2007
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Spud
as Screenplay, Director
2006
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The Genie in a Tin of Ravioli
as Director, Screenplay
2005
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Banquise
as Director, Animation
2005
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