Claire Burger

Claire Burger, editor and director, was born in Forbach in 1978. Specifying the name of the place where Claire began her life is anything but anecdotal insofar as this former industrial and mining town, located in the North-East of France, is emblematic of all those smokestack regions hard hit by the steel and coal crisis. In Forbach like in Wales, in Luxembourg and other places of the kind, losing one's job and losing the dignity that went with it caused whole populations to lose their bearings. It is Forbach, a forsaken place like many others, but one Claire Burger knows like the back of her hand, that she chose as the setting of almost all her films, whether short or long, and it is its otherwise undistinguished inhabitants that became her heroes and heroines. But before turning to direction, Claire Burger completed her secondary and college education. She then started her professional life as a local reporter for TV8 - Moselle Est (2000-2002) before turning the preproduction and ed