Bande à part Films at the Solothurn Film Festival 2026!
Bande à Part Films is proud to announce the selection of three feature films at the Solothurn Film Festival.
Le Chantier by Jean-Stéphane Bron, The Safe House by Lionel Baier, and Little by Little by Matias Carlier will be presented in the Panorama of Feature Films section.
This triple presence at the Solothurn Film Festival, a key event in Swiss cinema, highlights the richness and diversity of the perspectives offered by these filmmakers. We look forward to sharing these films with audiences and industry professionals at this year’s edition
Lionel Baier Film Retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québécoise!
Eight films by Lionel Baier are being showcased alongside The Safe House at Cinémania.
Thanks to the teams at the Cinémathèque québécoise, Swiss Films, and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Montreal for this great honor for Bande à Part Films!
LA LIGNE ON RTS!
LA LIGNE by Ursula Meier airs tonight, March 17, 2025, on RTS1 at 8:45 pm!
A great opportunity to discover—or rediscover—this film, which was presented in International Competition at the 2022 Berlinale.
THE SAFE HOUSE IS NOW IN SWISS AND FRENCH CINEMAS!
The Safe House by Lionel Baier will be released in French cinemas on March 19, 2025, and in Swiss cinemas on March 26, 2025!
Two Swiss preview screenings will take place in the presence of the director:
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March 13, 2025 at Cinéma Les Scala at 8:00 pm
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March 25, 2025 at Capitole, Lausanne at 8:30 pm (with the film team!)
Dog on Trial nominated for the Swiss Film Award!
Bande à part Films is proud to announce that Laetitia Dosch’s Dog on Trial has been nominated for the Swiss Film Award in the categories of Best Fiction Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Sound!
The Swiss Film Award ceremony will take place on March 21, 2025, in Geneva.
THE SAFE HOUSE by Lionel Baier at the Berlinale!
Bande à part Films is thrilled to announce that Lionel Baier’s film The Safe House has been selected for the International Competition at the Berlinale!
Congratulations to Lionel and to the Swiss, Luxembourgish, and French creative and technical teams!
The Line hits U.S. theaters tomorrow!
The Line will have its U.S. premiere at Metrograph on March 31, marking its U.S. release. On this occasion, Metrograph is also hosting a retrospective dedicated to Ursula Meier, titled Permeable Boundaries: The Films of Ursula Meier.
Ursula Meier’s “The Line” hits theaters January 11!
Discover the poster and trailer for THE LINE, the new film by Ursula Meier, starring Stéphanie Blanchoud, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Elli Spagnolo, India Hair, Benjamin Biolay, and Dali Benssalah.
Presented in the Official Competition at this year’s Berlinale, the film will be released in theaters on January 11, 2023!
Witnesses
Photographer and director David Nicolas Parel follows paramedics on their nocturnal journeys and questions, through what they are and what they see, the moods of society. Throughout this immersive journey, he seeks to understand how men save each others, repair themselves and how each one is in search of meaning in a world made more fragile than ever by a global pandemic.
“A dog in court” wins a SSA grant
The project by Laetitia Dosch wins one of the 3 SSA grants 2020 for the support of a first feature writing.
“Saving Night” wins a SSA grant
The documentary feature project by Lionel Baier wins one of the 3 SSA grants 2020 for the support of documentary projects development.
MOKA on RTS 2
Frédéric Mermoud’s thriller will be broadcast on Tuesday August 18 at 10:45 p.m. on RTS 2
PARTICLES nominated for the swiss film award !
Blaise Harrison’s film obtains a nomination in the category “Best fiction film”.
“Un autre homme” available in HD
Shot in 2008 in the Joux’s Valley and Lausanne, (re)discover now Lionel Baier’s film in a restored version and in HD (with eng. subtitles), on all the good platforms VOD
“Although he hasn’t got a clue about film, François writes reviews for a small local weekly in the Vallée de Joux. Rosa is a well-known critic working for a benchmark-setting daily. A kinky relationship develops between the two of them.”
CRIMINAL on Netflix – 3 episodes directed by Frédéric Mermoud
Particles – Swiss release
Discover Blaise Harrison’s film during special screenings in his presence, accompanied by Lionel Baier, producer:
29 aout – Genève, Cinélux, 20h30
1er septembre – La Chaux-de-Fonds, Cinépel, 10h00
1er septembre – Neuchâtel, Cinépel, 17h30
1er septembre – Fribourg, Rex, 20h40
3 septembre – Aubonne, Rex, 20h30
4 septembre – Lausanne, Capitole, 20h00 (With the main cast, followed by a concert show from Èlg)
12 septembre – Sainte-Croix, Royal. 20h00
13 septembre – Versoix, CinéVersoix, 20h30
26 septembre – Petit-Lancy, CinéSaussure, 19h00
From September 4th in all the good cinemas of French-speaking Switzerland.
Two evenings with “Bande à part” on TV
The Swiss-german-austrian channel 3Sat will broadcast Wednesday, July 31 at 22:25 Diary of my Mind, by Ursula Meier, followed by First Name : Mathieu, by Lionel Baier.
And on Thursday August 1st, Complices, by Frédéric Mermoud, at 10:25 pm.
“Particles” Swiss Premiere at the NIFFF
Movie by Blaise Harrison will premiere at the Neuchatêl International Fantastic Film Festival on July 8th !
Particles – France release
After its premiere at the Canne’s Director’s Fortnight, Blaise Harrison’s film is released this Wednesday, June 5 in French theaters.
The release in French-speaking Switzerland is scheduled for September 4th.