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Swiss film director
Lionel Baier
Born (1975-12-13) 13 December 1975 (age 49)
Lausanne, Switzerland
OccupationFilm director
Years active2003–present

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

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.

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, 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. 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.

His films have been screened at various prestigious festivals: Vanity premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in the ACID section, and later screened in the Piazza Grande at the Locarno Film Festival. 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.

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.

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.

Filmography (selection)

Theatre

Director
  • 2022: : Foucault en Californie, based on the book by Simeon Wade, Théâtre de Vidy [fr], Lausanne.

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.

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