Lionel Baier Movies

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...

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...

Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a “travelling...

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...

Two young boys have stolen some expensive scarves and are being pursued. To get out of town, they hijack a young lady’s vehicle. She ends up...

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...

Ricardo and Painting is Barbet Schroeder's portrait of his friend the painter Ricardo Cavallo, who devoted his life to painting. From Buenos Aires to...

Philippe, a depressed young man, feels quite oppressed in his flat since his roommate has a new girlfriend. Irritated by her, Philippe destroys the...

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...

A small town nestling in the middle of a snowy expanse. In a crowded hall, some musicians are warming up. Cacophony. The conductor calls for silence....

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...

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...

Two imprisoned brothers, with no dreams or realities, seek a bit of air to breathe. What must die suffocates. What wishes to live hopes. A tunnel...

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. Sofia...

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...

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...

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...

How does it feel to be alive? Bloc B is the setting for nine encounters, somewhere in the satellite city “la Bourdonnette”, in the...