Lionel Baier

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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. [1]

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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

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