Claire Simon

After falling off her horse, a teenage girl is rescued by a manly, older fireman with whom she falls in love with tragic consequences. (imdb)

Four related histories of people who for personal reasons are always in one of the biggest train stations of Paris.

A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women. (imdb)

A film about a train station ... and yes, at the North Station ... The largest station in Europe, the third of the world ... Although safe place excessive, disproportionate for a movie. This is an open place, modern and ancient. And the North Station is 5, 6 stations embedded on each other: the RER station, subway, train station commuter trains, regional trains the station, the station of Major Lines, and Eurostar and the bus station above the new canopy. This is the station of the DIVERSITY ... (lesfilmsdici.fr)

With LE CONCOURS the director will delve into the daily life of the Parisian cinema school, la Fémis, where a specific Republican ideal of excellence is practiced and entry into which can be summed up as follows: "everyone's equal, but only the best get in..." (imdb)

The Woods Dreams Are Made Of is a deep investigation of both people and place. Whether it's gay men out for sex in the rain, or a hermit who makes his home deep in a remote section of the park, everywhere humans are going about their business.

Set in the Paris suburbs in high school, teenagers chat after and during class, sitting in the hallway or outside, looking at the city below them. Claire Simon sets up a cinematic dialog with them, speaking about their family, but also passions and loneliness. At this age indeed, they think about leaving their family, when there is one to come home to. (imdb)

There is a kind of country, very small, so small that it looks a bit like a theater scene. It is inhabited two or three times a day by its people. The inhabitants are small in size. If they live according to laws, in any case, they do not stop to question them, and to fight violently about it. (imdb)

Follows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France. (imdb)