Claire Simon

At a stage, two men sit in chairs as a rapt theater audience looks on

Ji.hlava 2025: Top Prize-Winner ‘Silver,’ ‘Virtual Girlfriends,’ ‘Resilience,’ and ‘The Beauty of the Donkey’

The Czech festival’s 29th edition reaffirms its commitment to emerging filmmakers while presenting socially minded work that examines extraction

In a bright classroom, a teacher holds up his finger in front of a table of students.

“You Couldn’t Have a City Without a School”: Claire Simon on ‘Elementary’

Makarenko, a public school in the Parisian suburb of Ivry-sur-Seine, is the subject of Elementary , the latest vérité study from renowned French

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