|caption = Denis at the [[66th Venice International Film Festival]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|4|21|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Paris]], [[FranceFrancia]]
}}
'''Claire Denis''' (born 21 April 1948) is a [[FranceFrancia|French]] [[film director]] and Professor of Film at the [[European Graduate School]] in [[Saas-Fee]], Switzerland.<ref name="egs">{{cita web | url=http://www.egs.edu/faculty/claire-denis/biography/ | título=Claire Denis Faculty Page at [[European Graduate School]] (Biography, bibliography and video lectures) | editorial=[[European Graduate School]] | autor= | fechaacceso=27-10-2010}}</ref>
== Early life ==
Denis was born in Paris, [[FranceFrancia]], and raised in colonial Africa ([[Burkina Faso]], [[Somalia]], [[Senegal]] and [[Cameroon]]), where her father was a French civil servant.<ref>Hermione Eyre, "Claire Denis on filmmaking and feminism," ''Prospect'', June 21 2010, http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/06/loving-the-lost-and-monstrous/ </ref> She moved houses every two years because her father wanted them to know about geography. She used to watch the old damaged copies of war films sent from America when she was growing up in Africa. As an adolescent she loved to read. She would read all the required material in school, but would then sneak her mother's detective stories at night.<ref name="senses">{{cita noticia
