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Lionel Baier is a Swiss filmmaker. He studied Art at University of Lausanne from 1995–98. In 2009, he co-founded the production company Bande à Part films, together with Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron and Frédéric Mermoud.
Total trailers found: 47
01 January 2000
A film in the first person, in which the son casts a both tender and cruel gaze on his father, a minister in the canton of Vaud at the end of the 20th century.
13 November 2014
In a moment of anger in a grocery store in Lausanne, a father loses patience and disciplines his disobedient child.
24 August 2022
Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp.
05 June 2019
As winter sets in and P.A. sees the world shifting around him, he starts to observe strange phenomena in the environment.
02 September 2015
David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the time and the manner.
10 March 2004
This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do.
01 August 2011
Looking for a flat to rent, Benoit is staying temporarily at a hotel. Having seen that flats are more easily rented to couples than singles, Benoit comes up with the plan to have Jeanne, his neighbour, act as his girlfriend.
26 August 2021
Is it possible to replicate the human brain on a computer? To connect it to machines? Research aimed at understanding the functioning of our biological brain is being matched by spectacular progress in the development of artificial intelligence.
11 September 2024
April, an idealistic lawyer dedicated to lost causes, agrees to defend Cosmos, a dog that has bitten three people, leading to the first canine trial.
05 April 2017
A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.
29 August 2018
Competitive bodybuilder Léa Pearl is preparing to compete for the prestigious Miss Heaven title. Her coach, Al, a former bodybuilding star, hopes that, thanks to Léa, he will be back in the spotlight once again.
14 January 2009
Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague.
23 October 2021
Two imprisoned brothers, with no dreams or realities, seek a bit of air to breathe. What must die suffocates.
09 April 2019
A man releases a huge balloon in the dark night… In the south of France, two men lead us on a strange treasure hunt through crisscrossing roads, armed with GPSes and maps.
17 April 2020
Facing exorbitant fees for sessions with his therapist, Rodrigo Muñoz finds a great economical use of resources in this self–dramatization which portrays the account of his depression.
09 July 2019
How does it feel to be alive? Bloc B is the setting for nine encounters, somewhere in the satellite city “la Bourdonnette”, in the outskirts of Lausanne.
01 March 2020
Philippe, a depressed young man, feels quite oppressed in his flat since his roommate has a new girlfriend.
14 October 2021
Two men meet for a blind date in a dark apartment, according to an agreed arrangement. The lights come back on, Lucien and Anton confront their differences.
17 April 2020
Elena is the last one. Following her brother’s departure from Ticino, she remains alone with her mother in their large lakeside house.
08 November 2016
Two young boys have stolen some expensive scarves and are being pursued. To get out of town, they hijack a young lady’s vehicle.
07 April 2019
After the death of her father, Selina Weber seeks refuge in Pompei, a city still crossed by phantoms of those struck by the eruption of Vesuvius two thousand years ago.
01 January 1999
Each morning Laura B., a school teacher, pays great attention to the goings-on in the courtyard, watching attentively from her window as mothers drop their children off at the school, giving them a bag with something nice to eat for the 10 o'clock break.
12 November 2019
Leandre goes looking for a stranger named Tristan to give him some bad news about a mutual friend. However, when they meet, Leandre fails to deliver his message, which makes Tristan believe that they met by pure chance.
06 December 2014
A permission, an eternal return, it is in this suspended context, out of space and time, that the gathering of three young men happens, under the bright and suffocating lights of the bank district and the luxury boutiques of the city of Geneva, a symbol of a cold and radical social cleavage.
09 August 2013
A small town nestling in the middle of a snowy expanse. In a crowded hall, some musicians are warming up.
09 August 2011
August 1st, somewhere in the Aubonne countryside, Cécile and her ten-year-old daughter Marion have just acquired an old 1970’s Ford Taunus estate car.
19 March 2025
An eccentric family portrait set during the May 1968 protests in Paris. A nine-year-old boy stays with his grandparents and uncles while his parents protest.
18 December 2019
Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame.
07 June 2017
A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.
20 January 2012
Two young men are playing in a bathtub. Then a third and fourth slip in to join them. They are called Émile and they are looking for their “perfect mother” when a fifth man arrives, the Émile who reconciles them all.
01 October 2019
Adri and Beamo are two brothers who like to hang out and challenge each other. When Adri asks his little brother to enter an abandoned house and bring back an object, the latter will make a strange discovery that will haunt their night.
12 August 2011
Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a “travelling companion”, to adapt Serge Daney’s expression.
11 August 2013
It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries.
05 September 2023
A group of high school students meet to participate in the national parade with their school. A student, is bullied by the teacher because of her nationality.
12 August 2010
Since he is 9 years old, David Miller has known the date of the day he dies. As it nears, he meets those he cares about for the last time, obsessed by the idea of learning how to tie a tie and by the the fall into water of the Quebecker filmmaker Claude Jutra.
27 January 2018
On February 27, 2009, pupil Benjamin Feller commits a crime which he has meticulously described beforehand in a diary entry.
07 October 2006
Lionel is a happy gay man with a great career and an open-minded family that accepts his loyal lover, Serge.
19 October 2023
Ricardo and Painting is Barbet Schroeder's portrait of his friend the painter Ricardo Cavallo, who devoted his life to painting.
25 January 2018
Five days before D-Day, the day of the last voyage of the Order of Sirius, a sect nestled in the Vaudoise Alps, Switzerland.
04 March 2026
Noah a young teenager from Lausanne, is facing family conflicts and sometimes the law, but is driven by his passion for wheelies.
19 April 2026
The prison in Volterra, Tuscany, is home to a unique artistic practice: It is within these walls that Armando Punzo, shut away for three decades with men serving long sentences, has created his plays.
01 January 2002
Parades to demonstrate gay pride may be a well-established fact of life in cities such as Paris and Berlin – but this is not the case in Sion.
20 February 2018
Seventeen-year-old Mathieu Reymond lies brutally battered and raped in a field of reeds. It is only after his release from hospital that the memories come back, unannounced and fragmentary, but still so precise that regular meetings with two police officers not only allow the perpetrator’s identikit image to take shape, but also the chronology of the crime itself.
04 August 2021
After their house burns down, 18-year-old Sofia and her mother Carla have to live together in a small room at The Little Swallow Hotel.
