Gare du Nord in Paris is a transit station for all those coming from the suburbs, the provinces or abroad. Accompanied by Simon Mérabet, the son of Algerian immigrants from the Var, Human Geography offers a series of brief meetings with individuals who recount their lives in just a few words before disappearing to take their trains. The crowd of passengers is embodied in these stories, one life after another, and we see how globalization fashions individual destinies, subject to geographical and economic pressures.

1997 film by Claire Simon

A major figure in contemporary feminism and the first Frenchwoman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux is seen by many as a source of individual and collective emancipation, blending the intimate with the universal. Filmmaker Claire Simon has devoted an original portrait to her, giving students and teachers a voice.

1990 documentary film by Claire Simon

In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate.
With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.

2023 documentary film

15-year-old Livia gets back on her feet after falling from her horse with the help of Jean, a volunteer fireman with whom she falls in love. A few days later, vacation begins. June 24. The girl, alone and exasperated, will stop at nothing to conquer this older man; her passion burns more and more. Her love consumes her, driving her into a mounting frenzy, until she commits an irreparable act.

影片拍摄的六个月时间里，导演克莱尔·西蒙（Claire Simon）纪录了一个小公司为了自身存亡和支付雇员的薪水而持续进行的抗争和奋斗。这是一部关于工作和我们赖以生存的世界的悲喜剧。
在尼斯附近，圣洛朗·杜瓦尔（Saint Laurent du Var）工业区的中心地带，一家小公司每天向超市供应餐食，为生存而战——老板和他的五名员工为了生存而发动了经济战争：维持日常运营，并寻找新客户和新供应商，不惜一切代价勇往直前。

Every day, Ismael (Reda Kateb) is dazzled, fascinated and exhausted by his favourite place: the Gare du Nord in Paris.

Set on a series of long walks through the streets of Nice and the mountain village of Saorge, Mimi charts the psychogeography of the filmmaker’s long time friend Mimi Chiola. Simon allows her subject to guide the conversation, pulling the viewer into Mimi’s discursive, enveloping stories of love, sex, work, life and friendship. (from Metrograph.com)

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

在三到六岁的幼儿园里，课间休息会是什么样的场景？大人们远观，还以为是快乐的喧闹，但是走近看孩子们玩耍的情形，却让人模糊地想起我们也曾这样：这个奴役那个，这个虐待那个。但只是为了好玩，现在都已经结束。但真的结束了吗？不尽然，孩子们的课间游戏并不那么微不足道……

Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age. Set in the Paris suburbs in high school (for those lucky enough to go), teenagers chat after and even during class, sitting in the hallway or outside on a bench, looking at the city below them.

French director Claire Simon, a prolific maker of fiction and documentary films, unites the two forms in her surprising latest, a precise, enveloping portrait of the complex romantic relationship between epochal experimental novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras and her much younger, homosexual partner, Yann Andréa. Dramatized as a pair of dialogues based entirely on transcripts from a 1982 interview between Andréa (played on screen by Swann Arlaud) and journalist Michèle Manceaux (Emmanuelle Devos, an expert interrogator and a mesmerizing listener), Simon’s film underlines the sexual imbalances and power plays that defined their fraught love life while maintaining the mysteries and ambiguities that marked Duras’s singular artistic corpus.

An all-access tour behind the scenes at France’s premiere film school, La Fémis. Showing us how successful candidates get to follow in the footsteps of such luminaries as Louis Malle, François Ozon and Alain Resnais, all of whom attended this prestigious institution. Stumbling over their words, the often-nervous candidates seem vulnerable when confronted with the veterans of the industry, who have the difficult task of discovering true talent among all these eager young people.

2016 film by Claire Simon