IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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      Claire Doyon

      Claire Doyon

      Still: Pénélope, mon amour
      Claire DOYON is a French director. After completing directing studies at the Fémis and Lee Strasberg School, she directed her first feature film, Les Lionceaux, in 2002, selected at La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival. She then directed several films: Le vent souffle où il veut, Kataï, Les Allées sombres, Arsenic, Chrishna/Ombwiri. These films were selected at international festivals such as Locarno International Film Festival, Venice Mostra, Turin Film Festival, Marseille International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Côté Court in Pantin, and for which she won prizes. She directed Pénélope, mon amour, a film about a journey with her autistic daughter to the borders of Mongolia, which won the Renaud Victor Prize at the FID Marseille.

      Filmography

      Le vent souffle ou il veut (1999, short), Les lionceaux (2002), Sola perduta abandonnata (2008, short), Les esprits (2006, short, co-dir), Kataï (2009, short), Son of a gun (2010, short), Pénélope (2012, short doc), Les allées sombres (2015, short), Arsenic (2017, short), Chrishna/Ombwiri (2019, short doc), Pénélope, mon amour (2021)

      Claire Doyon at IFFR