Lionel Baier (* 13 December 1975 in Lausanne) is a Swiss filmmaker and lecturer at the Lausanne Film Academy. He grew up in a Protestant pastoral family in Lausanne and studied Film Science, French and Italian at the Lausanne University from 1995 to 1999. Since 2002, Lionel Baier is Chairman of the Film Department of the École cantonale d’art in Lausanne (ECAL). He is one of the co-founders of the Bande à part Films. Furthermore he is Vice-Chairman of the “Swiss Film Archive” and a member of the Board of Trustees of the “Vision du Réel International Film Festival” in Nyon.
In 2000 he made his first film “Celui au pasteur (ma vision personelle des choses)” a documentary about his father, a pastor. His second film “The Parade” documents on the first GayPride in the Catholic canton of Valais. Both movies were well received and made him nationally and internationally renowned. From 2003 he increasingly devoted himself to the feature film. His first work “Stupid Boy” was selected at the International Film Festival in Cannes in the category “Tous les cinéma du monde” to represent Swiss cinema. “Another Man” – his third feature film was chosen for the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival. Other feature films like “Stealth”, “Another Man” and “Low Cost” (shot with a mobile phone) attracted national and international attention at various festivals.
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