Ursula Meier
Ursula Meier (born June 24, 1971 in Besançon ) is a French - Swiss film director and film actress .
Short biography
Career
Ursula Meier was born to a French mother and a German-Swiss father and grew up near Geneva . She has three older siblings. She attended a lycée there in Ferney-Voltaire and then studied directing at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, from 1990 to 1994 . Today Meier lives in the Louvain-la-Neuve district .
Career
Meier began her career in 1994 as a director of short films, including her debut À corps perdu . After four other short films, which she directed between 1999 and 2003, Meier dared to make her first feature film in 2008 with the film Home , which will be premiered in the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, and the Swiss Film Prize in the category Best in 2009 Feature Film and Best Screenplay won (together with Antoine Jaccoud). It was submitted for the European Film Awards 2008 , but not considered. In February 2009 Home was nominated for three Césars , but also got nothing. In mid-September 2009, the film was submitted as a Swiss entry for the Oscar 2010 in the category Best Foreign Language Film .
In 2012 Meier was invited to the Berlin International Film Festival for her feature film Winter Thief for the first time , where she received a special prize and a Silver Bear for her social drama. This film, too, was submitted as Switzerland's official entry for the 2013 Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category and in the same year won three Swiss film awards (film, screenplay, leading actor - Kacey Mottet Klein ). In the same year she was appointed to the competition jury of the 69th Venice International Film Festival .
In 2015 Meier shot the short film Kacey Mottet Klein, Naissance d'un acteur (English title: Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth of an Actor) about the actor Kacey Mottet Klein, with whom she had already worked as a child for Home and Winterdieb . This film was shown in the Generation section at the 2016 Berlinale . In 2017 she shot again with Klein. He is the main actor in her film Ondes de choc - Journal de ma tête (English title: Shock Waves - Diary of My Mind , German: Schockwellen - Diary of Death , first part of the four-part mini-series Ondes de choc / Schockwellen ), the 2018 was invited to the Berlinale , Panorama section. In the same year she was selected as jury president for the award of the Caméra d'Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival .
In addition to her work as a director, Meier has so far acted in three films, including the 2004 coming-of-age film drama Garçon stupide .
Filmography (selection)
- 2002: The Sprinter (Des épaules solides) , TV film
- 2008: Home , movie
- 2012: Winter Thief (L'enfant d'en haut) , movie
- 2014: Tišina Mujo , short film
- 2014: Les Ponts de Sarajevo , documentary film
- 2015: Kacey Mottet Klein, Naissance d'un acteur , short film
- 2017: Ondes de choc - Journal de ma tête / Schockwellen - Diary of Death , first part of the four-part mini-series Ondes de choc / Schockwellen (TV series)
Web links
- Ursula Meier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Ursula Meier at critic.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ SWISS FILMS: Ursula Meier. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Rico Bandle: " Süsser Wahnsinn ", Die Weltwoche , edition 30/2016
- ↑ “In Switzerland, people don't talk about poverty” , Migros Magazine , issue 16, April 16, 2012
- ↑ Home. Retrieved July 22, 2020 (French).
- ^ Cannes Film Festival: Jury Caméra d'Or. Retrieved July 22, 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meier, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-Swiss film director and film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Besançon , France |