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Lionel Baier
Lionel Baier (born 13 December 1975 in Lausanne) is a Swiss film director. 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. 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, ''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. 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. His films have been screened at various prestigious festivals: ''Vanity'' premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longwave (film)
''Longwave'' (french: Les Grandes Ondes (à l'ouest), pt, As Ondas de Abril) is a 2013 Swiss-French-Portuguese comedy-drama film directed by Lionel Baier. The film's principal cast are Valérie Donzelli, Michel Vuillermoz, Patrick Lapp, and Francisco Belard. Plot The film is set in 1974, based on a true story about a Swiss production team working for Radio Suisse Romande, who are assigned to produce a puff piece in Portugal but instead witness the Carnation Revolution. Release The film débuted at the 2013 Locarno Film Festival. The US premiere of ''Longwave'' was at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 10, 2014. The distributor in France is Happiness Distribution, and in Switzerland is Pathé; the film has also been sold to Zeta Films for distribution in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Paraguay. Reception The reviewer for ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lausanne
Lausanne ( , , , ) ; it, Losanna; rm, Losanna. is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French speaking canton of Vaud. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located northeast of Geneva, the nearest major city. The municipality of Lausanne has a population of about 140,000, making it the List of cities in Switzerland, fourth largest city in Switzerland after Basel, Geneva, and Zurich, with the entire agglomeration area having about 420,000 inhabitants (as of January 2019). The metropolitan area of Lausanne-Geneva (including Vevey-Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains, Valais and foreign parts), commonly designated as ''Lake Geneva region, Arc lémanique'' was over 1.3 million inhabitants in 2017 and is the fastest growing in Switzerland. Initially a Celtic and Roman settlement on the shores of the lake, Lausanne became a town at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1976 Births
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ** The United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continental Drift (South)
''Continental Drift (South)'' (french: La dérive des continents (au sud)) is a 2022 Swiss-French comedy-drama film written by Lionel Baier and Laurent Larivière, directed by Baier and starring Isabelle Carré and Théodore Pellerin. Cast *Isabelle Carré as Nathalie Adler *Théodore Pellerin as Albert Adler * Ursina Lardi as Ute Lerner *Ivan Georgiev as Timotei Bacalov Release The film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in May 2022. Reception Allan Hunter of ''Screen International ''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business. ...'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Pleasantly entertaining, Continental Drift has a busy plot that finds easy solutions to complex issues and turns towards the sentimental..." Alex Heeney of ''Seventh Row'' said, "Lionel Baier’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stupid Boy (film)
''Stupid Boy'' (french: Garçon stupide) is a 2004 film directed by Lionel Baier.Wesley Morris"Search for life's meaning defines 'Garçon'" ''Boston Globe'', February 24, 2006. Plot This French language film tells the story of 20-year-old Loic, who works by day in a chocolate factory, and by night cruises the internet for sex with older men. His life is a series of pointless anonymous sexual encounters until he meets one man who appears to be interested in him for himself, and not just his body. Loic's journey to self-awareness is told through a series of episodic events, such as the suicide of his best friend, his growing infatuation with a local team's soccer star, a car accident and subsequent hospitalisation which uncomfortably reunites him with his parents. At the end of the film he realizes that he can be his own person and he recites a list of things he will never do in order to fit in and belong. Cast * Pierre Chatagny as Loïc * Natacha Koutchoumov as Marie *Rui Pedro A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
École Cantonale D'art De Lausanne
The École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) is a university of art and design located in the Renens suburb of Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded in 1821 and is affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO). The designer Alexis Georgacopoulos is the director of ECAL. Studies ECAL offers a foundation year, bachelor's, master's, and master's in advanced studies degrees in different fields. Foundation year Bachelor * Visual Arts * Cinema * Graphic Design * Industrial Design * Media & Interaction Design * Photography Master * Visual Arts * Film Studies, in collaboration with the Haute Ecole d'Art et Design (HEAD) in Geneva * Product Design * Photography * Type Design * HES-So Innokick (Integrated Innovation for Product & Business Development) Master of Advanced Studies * Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship * Design Research in Digital Innovation Notable alumni Graduates of ECAL include: * Fabrice Aragno, Swiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directors' Fortnight
The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films .... It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festival as an act of solidarity with striking workers. The Directors' Fortnight showcases a programme of shorts and feature films and documentaries worldwide. Artistic directors Programming is overseen by an artistic director. The current artistic director is Paolo Moretti who has programmed Director's Fortnight since 2018. * – 1969–1999 * – 1999–2003 * Olivier Père – 2004–2009 * Frédéric Boyer – 2009–2011 * – 2012–2018 * – 2018– Awards *Art Cinema Award *SACD Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locarno Festival
The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, short, avant-garde, and retrospective programs. The Piazza Grande section is held in an open-air venue that seats 8,000 spectators. The top prize of the festival is the Golden Leopard, awarded to the best film in the International Competition. Other awards include the Leopard of Honour for career achievement, and the Prix du Public, the public choice award. History The Festival del film Locarno kicked off on 23 August 1946, at the Grand Hotel of Locarno with the screening of the movie ''O sole mio'' by Giacomo Gentilomo. The first edition was organized in less than three months with a line-up of fifteen movies, mainly American and Italian, among which was '' Rome, Open City'' directed by Roberto Rossellini, '' And Then There Were None'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shock Waves (TV Series)
''Shock Waves'' (french: Ondes de choc) is a Swiss television drama anthology series, broadcast by Radio Télévision Suisse in 2018.Thomas Sotinel"TV – « Ondes de choc » : tétralogie sanglante chez les Helvètes" ''Le Monde'', July 20, 2018. The series consisted of four television films dramatizing true crime stories from European history. The episodes premiered theatrically at the Solothurn Film Festival in February 2018, and two episodes of the series, ''Diary of My Mind'' and ''First Name: Mathieu'', received theatrical screenings in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, prior to their television premieres in July. All four episodes were later screened at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival. Episodes ) , DirectedBy = Lionel Baier , WrittenBy = Lionel Baier , OriginalAirDate = , ShortSummary = Based on the real life case of serial killer Michel Peiry, teenager Mathieu (Maxime Gorbatchevsky) copes with being the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switzerland
; rm, citad federala, links=no). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, St. Gallen a.o.). , coordinates = , largest_city = Zurich , official_languages = , englishmotto = "One for all, all for one" , religion_year = 2022 , religion_ref = , religion = , demonym = , german: link=no, Schweizer/Schweizerin, french: link=no, Suisse/Suissesse, it, svizzero/svizzera or , rm, Svizzer/Svizra , government_type = Federal assembly-independent directorial republic , leader_title1 = Federal Council , leader_name1 = , leader_title2 = , leader_name2 = Viktor Rossi , legislature = Federal Assembly , upper_house = Counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
