IndieLisboa will be presenting inside its Emerging Cinema section a special focus composed by films from a distinct and close group of filmmakers: Ursula Meier, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Frédéric Mermoud and Lionel Baier, four Swiss directors that have established the collective Bande à part Films.
These directors are on the verge of a wider international acclaim, especially since Ursula Meier’s L’Enfant d’En Haut was awarded at the Berlinale, but other circumstances adjoin this significant choice. Throughout the years IndieLisboa has been selecting more films from ECAL (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne). This new generation of Swiss directors has been feed by the cinema taught by their fathers, a guidance that not only strengthens but blossoms a cinematic production claiming to be seen.
Ursula Meier and Lionel Baier are among the program guests, the latter responsible for a special screening of ECAL’s short films.
The presentation of this program is made possible by the support of Swiss Films and the Switzerland Embassy in Lisbon.
Program
Garçon stupide, by Lionel Baier, 2004, France, Switzerland
Comme des voleurs (à l’est), by Lionel Baier, 2006, Switzerland
Un autre homme, by Lionel Baier, 2008, Switzerland
Toulouse, 2011, Switzerland + Low Cost, 2010, Switzerland, by Lionel Baier
Les épaules solides, 2002, France, Belgium, Switzerland + Tous à table, 2001, Belgium, Switzerland, by Ursula Meier
Mon frére se marie, 2006, France, Switzerland, by Jean-Stéphane Bron
Complices, 2009, Switzerland, France + Son jour à elle, 1998, Switzerland, by Frédéric Mermoud
Screening of ECAL short films selected by Lionel Baier