Lionel Baier

Cinema School

ECAL

BIOGRAPHIE

Switzerland Director, theater director, producer Lionel Baier was born in 1975 in Lausanne, Switzerland, to a Swiss-Polish family. In 1992, he began programming and co-managing the Rex Cinema in Aubonne, Switzerland. Between 1995 and 1999, he studied at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lausanne. From 2002 to 2021, Lionel Baier was the head of the cinema department at the Art School of Lausanne (ECAL). In 2009, he founded Bande à Part Films with Ursula Meier, Jean Stéphane Bron, and Frédéric Mermoud, and later in 2016, Bandita with Pauline Gygax and Max Karli. In September 2014, Lionel Baier received the Grand Prix of Culture from the Vaudois Foundation for Culture. This award honors a cultural figure who has enriched the country through impactful artistic work and a new approach. Lionel Baier is the director of more than 10 feature films presented at Cannes, Berlin, or Locarno, a theater director, but also the producer of films by Barbet Schroeder, Laetitia Dosch, and Blaise Harrison, among others. He is also the Vice-President of the foundation council of the Swiss Cinémathèque and of Visions du Réel (documentary film festival in Nyon), and a member of the board of La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène de Suisse romande. COURTS MÉTRAGES Director 1999: Mignon à croquer 2002: Mon père, c’est un lion (Jean Rouch pour mémoire) 2012: En onze 2010: Low Cost (Claude Jutra) 2010: Émile de 1 à 5 2007: Continuité nationale FEATURE FILMS Director 2000: Celui au pasteur (ma vision personnelle des choses) 2001: La Parade (notre histoire) 2004: Stupid Boy (Garçon stupide) 2006: Comme des voleurs (à l’est), Jury Special Prize - Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival (Germany) 2006 2008: Un autre homme 2010: Toulouse 2011: Bon vent Claude Goretta 2013: Longwave (Les Grandes Ondes (à l’ouest)) 2015: Vanity (La Vanité), Audience Award - Queer Lisboa Festival (Portugal) 2016 2017: First Name: Mathieu (Prénom : Mathieu) 2022: Continental Drift (South) (La dérive des continents (au sud))

FILMOGRAPHIE

2022 The Scent of Burning Time Production
2022 Daena Production
2022 Autoportrait: Seul dans le noir Production
2022 The Parade Production
2021 Le Collier de vénus Production
2021 Un amour comme il va Production, Sales
2021 Askêsis Production
2020 Bliss Production
2020 Ceux Qui Désirent Se Connaître Production
2020 Europa Production
2019 Alma Nel Branco Production
2018 Lirio-da-paz Production
2018 Ici le chemin des ânes Production
2018 Intercontinental I Production
2018 Hors Piste Production
2018 Garage Production
2017 Entre Nous Production
2017 Après les cimes Production
2017 Crépuscule Production
2017 Dancing Encounters Production
2017 Enbata Production
2017 Foulek Production
2017 Geschichten Eines Zwischenstopps Production
2017 La Historia Quebrada Production
2017 Les Intranquilles Production
2017 On casse le ciel on prend un bout Production
2017 Satán Production
2016 Lost Exile S Production
2016 La Sève Production
2016 Martien Production
2016 Albin Production
2016 Comme des loups Production
2016 Sott’Acqua Production
2016 Tonnerre de Brecht Production
2016 Low Production
2015 Mars Production, Sales
2015 Les Avalanches Production
2015 Caribou Production
2014 DIANE.jpeg Production
2014 Des gens trop sérieux Production
2014 Babyblond Production
2014 A briglie strette Production
2014 Abseits der Autobahn Production
2014 Eleonore Production
2014 Jour J I Production
2014 Le Miel est plus doux que le sang Production
2014 Parades Production
2014 Shabe Sher Production
2013 Petit Tom Production
2013 Frère et soeur Production
2013 La Vie en rose comme dans les films Production
2012 Au ras du sol Production
2012 Coup de soleil Production
2012 Robin Production
2012 Prisonnière Production
2011 Handschlag Production
2011 Retour à Mandima I Production
2010 Couloirs Sales
2010 Raphaël comme Geminiani Production, Sales
2010 Kwa heri Mandima I, EL, FP, S Production, Production, Production, Production, Sales, Sales, Sales, Sales
2010 Angela Production
2009 Kitsch Panorama Production, Sales
2009 Le Téméraire Production, Sales
2009 Goldwing Sales
2009 Les Faux-monnayeurs Director, Production, Sales
2008 La Visite Production, Sales
2008 Ad aeternum Production, Sales
2008 Hasta la vida Production, Sales
2008 La Délogeuse EL Production, Sales
2007 Burgdorf Production, Sales
2007 Bloody Valentine Production, Sales
2007 Clandestins Sales
2007 Avec ou sans regret Production, Sales
2007 Vetura Production, Sales
2006 Sale gosse Production
2006 Notre jardin Sales
2006 Les Hommes invisibles EL Production, Sales
2005 Romance mayonnaise EL Production
2004 Esther Production, Sales
2004 Spleen Production, Sales
2004 La Casse Production, Sales
2004 Comment je m'appelle Production, Sales
2004 Des bras trop courts Production, Sales
2002 Sophie Calle, près texte L, EL Production, Production
1999 Mignon à croquer Director, Referent