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Swiss Lionel Baier: ‘We Do Not Realize How Lucky We Are to Be Free in This City’

For his latest film, Swiss writer-director Lionel Baier adapted the novel "La Cache" (The Safe House) by Christophe Boltanski, an autobiographical comedy-drama about the author’s family when he was a child during the civil unrest in Paris in 1968. The film played in competition at the Berlin Film Festival where we spoke with Baier about politically charged times and his collaboration with the late French acting icon Michel Blanc.

Latin America Has Strong Showing at Berlin Film Festival

Each year, the Berlinale becomes a vital platform for showcasing the finest filmmaking from all over the world, including Latin America. Last year, La Cocina, from Mexican director Alfonso Ruizpalacios and starring Raúl Briones and Rooney Mara, embarked on an international tour after debuting there, winning awards at festivals such as Deauville, Havana and Philadelphia, in addition to a theatrical release in multiple markets, including the U.

Multi-Hyphenate Eva Victor Makes Sundance Splash with ‘Sorry, Baby’

The American independent-film scene faces no shortage of questions. Coming off a year of drastically reduced production, the ongoing fallout of the 2023 writers’ strike and the aftermath of the disastrous California wildfires to an business climate held in limbo by various potential mergers and acquisitions, there are doubts about the financial viability of outside-the-box, sometimes demanding stories that are not comfortably minted from Hollywood studio IP farms.