– Claude Barras selected in Cannes and Annecy
The Valais director will return to festivals which have already brought him luck.
Published today at 2:16 p.m.
Valais director Claude Barras during preparations for “Sauvages” in spring 2023.
Chantal Dervey
As for “My life as a Zucchini” shown at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2016, one step among others on the road to success which took him from Quartz Suisse to the Annecy Festival, and from the Césars to the Oscars, the Valais director Claude Barras been selected for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
In May, he will be in the young audience selection with “Sauvages”, an ecological fable which takes place in Borneo. This is his third visit to the Croisette, in 2005, “Ice floe” was competing among the short films.
And a selection never comes alone, we also learned that the latest film from Valais was selected in the premier feature film category of the Annecy Festival (June 9 to 15). In 2016, “Ma vie de Courgette” won the Feature Film Crystal and the Audience Award.
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As for Cannes, Claude Barras will be making the trip while Switzerland is the guest of honor at the Film Market. Interviewed by Keystone-ATS, the director welcomes this recognition of Swiss cinema, “which goes through ups and downs because we are a small country, with a fragmented market due to languages.”
A second film will be offered to young audiences during this Cannes edition: “Angelo, in the mysterious forest” by the French Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord. In addition to the tribute to Studio Ghibli, the Cannes Official Selection for Young Audiences includes six animated films.
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