Lionel Baier

Lionel Baier
Born (1975-12-13) 13 December 1975 (age 48)
Lausanne, Switzerland
OccupationFilm director
Years active2003–present

Lionel Baier (born 13 December 1975 in Lausanne) is a Swiss film director.[1]

Career

Lionel Baier studied Art at University of Lausanne from 1995–98. In 2009, he co-founds the production company Bande à Part films, together with Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron and Frédéric Mermoud.[2][3]

Several of his films have been nominated for or awarded with the Swiss Film Award: Émile de 1 à 5 was nominated in the Best Short Film category in 2012,[4] Comme des voleurs was nominated for Best Feature Film in 2007, as was Longwave (Les grandes Ondes (à L'ouest)) in 2014 and Vanity (La vanité) in 2016; the latter two were also nominated for the Best Screenplay award, which Baier co-wrote with Julien Boussioux.[5][6] For their performance in Vanity, actor Patrick Lapp was awarded the prize for best male lead, as well as Ivan Georgiev for best supporting actor.[7]

His films have been screened at various prestigious festivals: Vanity premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in the ACID section,[8] and later screened in the Piazza Grande at the Locarno Film Festival.[9] In 2018, Shock Waves: First Name: Mathieu (Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu) was released, as part of the loose TV crime series Shock Waves (Ondes de choc), based on true stories. The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2018.[10]

His latest feature film, Continental Drift (South) (La dérive des continents (au Sud)), has premiere in the Director's Fortnight section at Cannes in 2022.[11]

Besides his work as a director and screenwriter, he teaches at École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ÉCAL) in Lausanne, which's film department he chaired from 2002–21.[12]

Filmography (selection)

Theatre

Director

References

  1. ^ "Lionel Baier". swissfilms. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  2. ^ "Lionel Baier". Les Films Pelléas (in French). Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  3. ^ "Zurich University of the Arts: Lionel Baier".
  4. ^ "Nominations for the Swiss Film Prize «Quartz 2012»". swissfilms. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  5. ^ "Nominees for 2014 Swiss Film Award announced". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  6. ^ "Swiss Film Awards 2016: Nominations".
  7. ^ "Die Gewinner des Schweizer Filmpreises 2016 stehen fest". www.schweizerkulturpreise.ch. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  8. ^ "L'ACID – La Vanité". Le site de l'ACID – Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  9. ^ "La Vanité". Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  10. ^ "Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu | Shock Waves – First Name: Mathieu". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  11. ^ "The Directors' Fortnight unveils its 2022 selection". Quinzaine des réalisateurs. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  12. ^ "Lionel Baier". swissfilms. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  13. ^ "Lionel Baier – Foucault en Californie". Théâtre de Vidy. Retrieved 3 December 2022.