The Graduation
- Documentary
- 2016
- 115 Minutes
- France
- Language: French
With THE GRADUATION, the director delves into the daily life of the Parisian cinema school, la Fémis, where a specific Republican ideal applies and entry into which can be summed up as follows: "everyone’s equal, but only the best gets in…"
Through the admission process, the hard work all year and the graduation exams, THE GRADUATION establishes a portrait of our relationship to excellency in Art, showing how a profession chooses its inheritors.
Director: Claire Simon
Production Company: Andolfi
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Awards
2016: London Film Festival2017: True/False Film Fest, True Vision Award
Venice Film Festival, Venezia Classici Award: Best Documentary on Cinema
Cast and Crew
DOP / Camera: Claire Simon
Editor: Luc Forveille
Sound: Olivier Hespel, Nathalie Vidal
Producer: Dommerc Arnaud
Director
Claire Simon
Claire Simon is scripwriter, ac-tress, photographer, editor and director. Her career is mostly focused on documentaries and to her, if “triviality contains fiction”, being a filmmaker means finding it. At All Costs (1995)/ A Foreign Body (1997)/ Mimi (2003)/ It burns (2006)/ Gods Offices (2008)/ Gare du Nord (2013)/ Human Geography (2013)/ The Woods Dreams Are Made of (2016)