Claude Miller
ActorDirectorClaude Miller was a French film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his insightful and intimate storytelling style. He began his career as an assistant director to legendary filmmaker François Truffaut. Some of his notable films include "The Little Thief," "Garde à vue," and "A Secret," which received critical acclaim. Miller won several awards throughout his career, including the Prix Delluc for Best French Film. He passed away in 2012, leaving behind a legacy of thought-provoking and emotionally resonant cinema.
Films
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It Happened Just Before
2006 | 72 min | Crime
The documentary deals with the global phenomenon of human trafficking. The stories of affected women are told by people who have no actual connection to the facts, but could have. Director Anja Salomonowitz chooses an original approach to her topic. The film is based on real stories of trafficked women, which the director has condensed into a documentary screenplay. Thus, the films constantly finds new connections between the narrative logic of cinematographic fiction, the “what could happen” and ...
Matadoras
2021 | 26 min | Drama
Caught between German stuffiness and Argentinian religiosity, Madi discovers her own sexuality. Madi and her sister Lucia grow up with their Catholic Argentinian mother and their pragmatic German father. The matriarch Dolores loses herself in clichés while their father August pursues his stereotypical role as breadwinner. When Dolores has to spend a long time in hospital for inexplicable reasons, her father takes over the running of the household and is not only overwhelmed with the two adolescent ...
Brother
2014 | 27 min | Crime
Lukasz (24) wants to get out of crisis mode. He yearns for recognition and loyalty. As tough thug for Hamburg's main man, he believes he's found it all. While Lukasz's rise up the ladder begins to take shape, the death of their mother brings his little brother Kamil (13) to Lukasz's front door after a long break in contact. Lukasz is forced to choose between his criminal substitute family and his brother. Jarek Dudas Kiez drama BROTHER is his graduation film from the International Film School ...
Mein
2009 | 104 min | Crime
Maggie(21) and Klaus(41) are on holiday. When Maggie shows interest in another man, the balance of power between the couple shifts. MEIN is an intense thriller directed by and starring Detlef Bothe, who plays a fortysomething man. He is on the road camping with a much younger woman. They seem to be a couple, but something darker lies at the core of their relationship. “Sharp as a knife and exciting.” (Der Tagesspiegel)
I Won't Go Anywhere
2021 | 52 min | Drama
This film sensitively shows how two war orphans, in the face of an inhumane policy of conquest and the loss of their home, support each other.Elene and Leo have lived with their grandfather Davit since early childhood in a small village near the town of Gori in Georgia. Although the 2008 Russian-Georgian war was now years ago, its effects are clearly present. Near the little family's home runs the border illegally erected by the Russian military. When grandfather Davit dies, they have to move to ...
The Portuguese Nun
2009 | 121 min | Drama
A young French actress who is in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming. "THE PORTUGUESE NUN has both wit and feeling. The director explores the collision of eros and religion in a way that is both cerebral and sensual." (New York Times) Left to her own devices by a director (Green himself), Julie wanders the streets and has encounters with a series of male archetypes including a needy child (Mozos), a faithless husband (Michaux) and a ...
Farewell
2016 | 6 min | Shorts
Lovro is remembering the day he caught his first fish with his grandfather. Memory and reality merge into one. Lovro is tired and sad. He fills the bathtub with water, looking at droplets dripping from the tap. As one hits the water surface, Lovro is reminded of the day he first went fishing with his grandpa. His thoughts take him to the fish pond, and the bathroom sounds and objects bring back memories of that day.
MansFeld
2013 | 98 min | Documentary
Tom, Sebastian and Paul are children from very different families. They live in a small village in Mansfelder Land, an area marked by the decline of mining. However, an archaic custom has remained over the centuries and the three boys play a crucial role in it. For director Mario Schneider, MANSFELD, after HELBRA, and HEINZ UND FRED, represents the conclusion of his documentary trilogy about life in Mansfelder Land on the eastern edge of the Harz Mountains. "What distinguishes the film is the closeness ...
Naomi's Journey
2017 | 92 min | Crime
After her sister is murdered, Naomi travels to Germany from Peru for the trial. Naomi, 20, lives a simple life with her younger siblings in Peru. Her older sister got married in Germany and was apparently happy. But now she is dead, murdered by her German husband, and Naomi is in a state of shock. Travelling with her mother to the country of the crime is the last thing Naomi wants to do. But then she decides to accompany her mom and ends up testifying at the trial in Berlin as a joint plaintiff. The ...
I Want To Tell You Something
2006 | 64 min | Documentary
Oskar and Leo are four-year-old twins. Oskar has been deaf since birth while Leo's hearing is perfect. Both boys have grown up learning sign language. The director of this documentary is also fluent in sign language, allowing him to interact directly with the young brothers and closely document their discoveries and learning processes. This film explores what the diagnosis 'deaf' means to Oskar's hearing parents. Sandra and Stefan. Two parents. Two different reactions. And the challenge of raising ...