Guests

  • Maren Ade studied production at the HFF Munich in 1998, before studying feature film direction. In 1999, she co-founded Komplizen Film with Janine Jackowski, with whom she co-produced her graduation film โ€œThe Forest for the Treesโ€ in 2003. The film received the Special Jury Award of the Sundance Film Festival 2005 and was nominated for the German Film Award the same year. The film was shown at numerous international festivals.
    Her second feature film โ€œEveryone Elseโ€ had its premiere in Competition at the Berlinale 2009 and was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Film and the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Birgit Minichmayr. โ€œEveryone Elseโ€ had cinematic runs in over 18 countries and received three nominations for the German Film Award. Her third feature film โ€œToni Erdmannโ€ celebrated its world premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2016. Since then, the film has won awards at numerous international festivals. โ€œToni Erdmannโ€ won the International Criticsโ€™ Award and FIPRESCI Grand Prix, the European and German Film Awards and was nominated for a Golden Globe, Cรฉsar, BAFTA and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. It was sold in over 100 countries worldwide.
    Maren Ade not only produces her own films, but also works as a producer for other productions.

    โ†’ Maren Adeโ€™s profile on โ€œKomplizen Filmโ€
    โ†’ โ€œKomplizen Filmโ€ website

    Portrait of producer Maren Ade

  • 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 ร‰cole cantonale dโ€™art in Lausanne (ECAL). He is one of the co-founders of the Bande ร  part Films. Furthermore he is Vice-Chairman of the โ€œSwiss Film Archiveโ€ and a member of the Board of Trustees of the โ€œVision du Rรฉel International Film Festivalโ€ in Nyon.
    In 2000 he made his first film โ€œCelui au pasteur (ma vision personelle des choses)โ€ a documentary about his father, a pastor. His second film โ€œThe Paradeโ€ 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 โ€œStupid Boyโ€ was selected at the International Film Festival in Cannes in the category โ€œTous les cinรฉma du mondeโ€ to represent Swiss cinema. โ€œAnother Manโ€ โ€“ his third feature film was chosen for the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival. Other feature films like โ€œStealthโ€, โ€œAnother Manโ€ and โ€œLow Costโ€ (shot with a mobile phone) attracted national and international attention at various festivals.

    โ†’ Lionel Baier on IMDb

    Portrait of Swiss director Lionel Baier

  • He is a freelance film director and screenwriter since 1986. He studied German literature/linguistics and history at the University of Zurich from 1981โ€“86. 
    He was first engaged as assistant producer at Theater an der Winkelwiese, Schauspielhaus Zรผrich, Schauspiel Kรถln. From 2008โ€“2018 he was Professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, Master of Arts in Film, Directing Fiction. From 2012โ€“2018 he was assigned as head of programme for the Master Film studies at the ZHdK.

    โ†’ Markus Imbodenโ€™s website (only in German)
    โ†’ Markus Imboden on IMDb with full filmography

    Portrait of director Markus Imboden

  • Cihan Inan is a Turkish-Swiss film and theatre director, screenwriter and dramaturge.
    While studying philosophy, German language and literature in Bern, he worked as a cinema projectionist and wrote film and theatre critics. In 1999 he worked  as an intern at the Theater Freiburg (D), where he successfully staged his first theatre piece. As a result he got offered a full contract as house director. In the following years he worked in the theatre of Graz, Bern and Zurich. In 2011 he shortly was employed as chief dramaturge at Theater Neumarkt in Zurich. Since 2017/18 he is in charge as acting director at the Konzert Theater Bern.
    His first film โ€œPelotudoโ€ (screenplay/direction), based on a Nick Cave novel, was lost under dramatic circumstances in 2003. His next film โ€œ180ยฐโ€ was released in 2010 and won international and national awards. In 2018 โ€œZone rougeโ€ (script/director) was released and shown at the cinema. His most current work is called โ€œLeopardโ€.
    He lives in Berlin and Bern.

    โ†’ Cihan Inan on IMDb

    Portrait of Cihan Inan

  • In 1990 Tobias Ineichen completed his film studies at HEAD in Geneva. He first made several internationally awarded short films and documentaries as well as TV commercials and TV series. In 2002 he made his first feature-length film: the TV thriller โ€œDilemmaโ€. He subsequently directed numerous feature films and crime scene episodes in Germany and Switzerland, including the award-winning Munich crime scene โ€œTatort โ€“ Schneetreibenโ€ (2005) as well as the award-winning television films โ€œSonjas Rรผckkehrโ€ (2006) and โ€œJimmieโ€ (2007). Among his more recent TV projects are four episodes of the Lucerne โ€œTatortโ€. In 2012 he directed his first feature film for cinema: โ€œClara and the Secret of the Bearsโ€. He lives in Zurich and Paris.

    โ†’ Tobias Ineichen on IMDb

    Portrait of Swiss director Tobias Ineichen

  • Andrea ล taka studied film at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her previous films โ€œHotel Belgradโ€ and โ€œYugodivasโ€ have brought her great recognition at festivals such as Locarno and Sundance and have won several awards. Her first feature film โ€œFrauleinโ€ won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and the Heart of Sarajevo. โ€œCure โ€“ The life of anotherโ€ won the Max Ophรผls Prize among others. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

    Portrait of Andrea ล taka