Director
Lionel Baier
Lionel Baier (1975) was head of the Cinema Department at ECAL from 2002 to 2021. Together with Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron and Frédéric Mermoud, he founded Bande à part Films in 2009. The production company merged with Rita Productions of Pauline Gygax and Max Karli in 2017 and has since been called Bandita Films. In 2014, Lionel Baier received the Grand Prize of the Fondation Vaudoise for his participation in the enrichment of the country through his important cultural work. He is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Cinemathèque and member of the Committee of Visions du Réel.
Filmography (selection)
- "Celui au pasteur" (2000)
- "Stupid boy" (2004)
- "Comme des voleurs" (2006)
- "Les grandes ondes (à l'Ouest)" (2013)
- "La vanité" (2015)
- "Shockwaves - The Mathieu Case" (2018)
- "Continental Drift (South)" (2022)