The filmmaker Ursula Meier joins the International Jury 2014

Born in Besançon (France) in 1971, part Swiss part French, from 1990 to 1994 Ursula Meier studied film-making at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) in Belgium, graduating with “Great Distinction”. The success of Le songe d’Isaac, her end-of-course project, then of Des heures sans sommeil, Special Jury Prize in 1999 at the festival of Clermont-ferrand, enabled her to pursue an independent career, while at the same time working as assistant director on two films by Alain Tanner (Fourbi and Jonas et Lila, à demain).

Ursula Meier’s films, awarded in many international festivals, alternate between genre-blurring works of fiction (Tous à table Audience Prize, Research Prize and Press Prize in 2001 during the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival or Des épaules solides, a television film shot in video for the Arte series Masculin Féminin) and as strange and different documentaries as Autour de Pinget, Pas les flics, pas lesnoirs, pas les blancs).

In 2008, Ursula Meier presented her first fiction film for the cinema, Home, at the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week. The film was nominated for three César Awards in 2009 and garnered numerous prizes worldwide,

In 2009, together with filmmakers Lionel Baier, Jean-Stéphane Bron and Frédéric Mermoud, Ursula Meier set up Bande à part films in Lausanne (Switzerland). Completed in 2012 Sister received a Silver Bear – Special Award at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival as well as three Swiss Film Awards in 2013.

Ursula Meier in 1999 during the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival

Extract from Sister

Via SwissFilms