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

Lionel Baier
Born	(1976-12-13) 13 December 1976 (age 45) Lausanne, Switzerland
Occupation	Film director
Years active	2003-present

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)), will premiere in the Director's Fortnight section at Cannes in 2022.[11]

Besides his work as a director and screenwriter, he teaches at écal, the Art School of Lausanne, which's film department he chaired from 2002-21.[12]

Filmography (selection)

• 2000: Celui au pasteur
• 2002: La Parade (notre histoire)
• 2004: Stupid Boy (Garçon stupide)
• 2006: Comme des voleurs
• 2008: Un autre homme
• 2011: La faute à Rousseau (co-directed)
• 2012: Émile de 1 à 5 (short film)
• 2013: Longwave (Les grandes ondes (à l'Ouest))
• 2015: Vanity (La vanité)
• 2018: Shock Waves: First Name: Mathieu (Ondes de choc – Prénom: Mathieu)
• 2022: Continental Drift (South) (La dérive des continents (au Sud))

References

External links

• Lionel Baier at IMDb

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