{{short description|French–Congolese filmmaker}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Claude Haffner | native_name = كلود هافنر | native_name_lang = ar | other_names = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1976}} | birth_name = | birth_place = Kinshasa, Congo Republic | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * University of Strasbourg * Sorbonne University }} | years_active = 2000–present | party = | spouse = | children = | awards = | father = Pierre Haffner | mother = Sudila Mwembe | relatives = Frédéric Haffner (brother) | signature = | website = | footnotes = | occupation = Director, production manager, screen writer, actress }}
'''Claude Haffner''' (Arabic: كلود هافنر; born 1976), is a French-Congolese filmmaker and production manager primarily direct documentary films.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=600988.html| title=Claude Haffner: Director| publisher=allocine | accessdate=7 October 2020}}</ref> She has made several critically acclaimed documentaries including ''Ko Bongisa Mutu'', ''Défilé Célianthe'' and ''Noire ici, blanche là-bas''.
==Personal life== She was born in 1976 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo to a French father and a Congolese mother. Her father Pierre Haffner is also a researcher and film lecturer at the French Cultural Center in Kinshasa, which influence Claude to start her cinema career. Her mother Sudila Mwembe is from Zaïre (today's Democratic Republic of the Congo). At the very young age, she went France with family and never returned Congo. Then she grew up in Alsace with her brother Frédéric Haffner. His father has a collection of African art together with photos and taped accounts about Congo and Africa. He died in 2000, where Claude decided to return to Congo with her mother to meet her Congolese family.<ref name= ifas>{{cite web | url=http://www.ifas.org.za/index.php/cinema-media/cinema/497-screening-of-qnoire-ici-blanche-la-basq-a-film-by-claude-haffner|title=Screening of "Noire ici, Blanche là-bas", a film by Claude Haffner| publisher=ifas.org | accessdate=8 October 2020}}</ref>
From 1994 to 1999, she studied History and a University Diploma in Cinema and Audiovisual at the University of Strasbourg.<ref name= career>{{cite web | url=http://africultures.com/personnes/?no=7015|title=Claude Haffner career| publisher=Afri cultures | accessdate=8 October 2020}}</ref> In 2005, Claude completed her master's degree at Sorbonne University.<ref name= claude>{{cite web | url=https://africanfilmny.org/directors/claude-haffner/|title=Ariane Claude Haffner: Director| publisher=African Filmny | accessdate=8 October 2020}}</ref>
==Career== After graduating from university, she worked on numerous short films to learn techniques of filmmaking. In 2000, Claude worked as the Script supervisor for the short film ''La fourchette''. Then she joined as a production assistant at 'Canal +', where she was able to work with Agnès Varda, her "mentor", on the editing of the film ''Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse''. After the film, she developed interest to direct documentaries. Therefore, in 2002, she followed a training course in documentary filmmaking at Altermédia (Saint-Denis training center).<ref name= career /> During this period, she interviewed her mother who lived in Brunstatt about her country, her family and her history.<ref name= ifas />
In 2002, Haffner studied documentary filmmaking at the Altermedia School in Paris. Her maiden direction was a "film-essay" titled ''Ko Bongisa Mutu'' in a Congolese hair salon in Paris. In 2004, she directed the documentary ''La Canne musicale'', a promenade with the French filmmaker and ethnographer Jean Rouch. This was happened a few days before his death.<ref name= claude />
In 2005, After two years of research on African Cinema, she made the documentary ''D'une fleur double et de 4000 autres'' which was focused on African Cinema history. After the film, she moved to South Africa in the same year. In 2009, she worked as a production manager and researcher on the docu-drama ''The Manuscripts of Timbuktu'' by Zola Maseko and ''By Any Means Necessary'' by Ramadan Suleman. Claude continued to work and teach on African Cinema at two Johannesburg-based film schools: AFDA, The School for the Creative Economy (AFDA) and Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking. In 2011, she returned to France to achieve her documentary ''Noire ici, blanche là-bas''.<ref name= claude />
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Film !! Role !! Genre !! Ref. |- | 2000 || ''La fourchette'' <br> (The fork) || Script supervisor ||short film || |- | 2002 || ''Ko Bongisa Mutu'' <br> (Arrange Your Head) || Director, writer ||documentary || <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://africultures.com/personnes/|title=Personnes|website=Africultures|language=fr-FR|access-date=2019-11-16}}</ref> |- | 2000 || ''À fleur de peau'' <br> (On edge) || Continuity supervisor ||short film || <ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/45869/a-fleur-de-peau| title=À fleur de peau| publisher=Uni France| accessdate=7 October 2020}}</ref> |- | 2003 || ''Remue-ménage dans le tertiaire'' <br> (A stir in the tertiary sector) || Director, writer ||documentary || |- | 2004 || ''La parole est une fenêtre'' <br> (The word is a window) || Director, writer ||documentary || |- | 2004 || ''Défilé Célianthe'' <br> (Célianthe parade) || Director, writer ||documentary || |- | 2004 || ''La Canne musicale'' <br> (The Musical Cane) || Director, writer ||documentary || |- | 2005 || ''D’une fleur double et de quatre mille autres'' <br> (Of a Double-Headed Flower and 4,000) || Director, writer ||documentary || |- | 2005 || ''En prépa'' <br> (In preparation) || Director, writer ||documentary || |- | 2009 || ''The Manuscripts of Timbuktu'' || Production manager ||docu-drama || <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bde1b422e| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011220003/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bde1b422e| url-status=dead| archive-date=11 October 2020| title=Claude Haffner films| publisher=British Film Institute | accessdate=7 October 2020}}</ref> |- | 2009 || ''By Any Means Necessary'' || Production manager ||docu-drama || |- | 2010 || ''Ce soir (ou jamais!)'' <br> (Tonight or never!) || Actor: Self ||TV series || |- | 2011 || ''Noire ici, blanche là-bas'' <br> (Footprints of My Other) || Director, writer ||documentary || <ref>{{cite web | url=https://ifcinema.institutfrancais.com/en/movie?id=809cabc5-f9ad-5d1b-4bec-08a019fad6ae| title=Noire ici, blanche là-bas by Claude Haffner| publisher=Institut Francais | accessdate=7 October 2020}}</ref> |}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|1314527}}
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