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Barbet Schroeder, Rencontres Award 2024
Barbet Schroeder began his film career in 1958 as a journalist for Cahiers du cinéma. In 1963, Jean-Luc Godard hired him as an assistant on The Carabineers. The following year he founded his own production company, Les Films du Losange, and produced films by directors such as Rohmer, Rivette, Wenders and Fassbinder.
He made his first feature film, More, in Ibiza in 1969. In 1974 he began making documentaries, with General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait, followed by Koko: A Talking Gorilla in 1978. In 1987, his career took off in the United States with Barfly, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Three years later, Reversal of Fortune was nominated for 3 Academy Awards and 4 Golden Globes, winning Jeremy Irons both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Actor. He went on to direct a series of thrillers, including Single White Female (1992) and Kiss of Death (1995), before moving to Colombia to direct Our Lady of the Assassins (2000), which won an award at the Venice Film Festival.
After Murder by Numbers (2002), he directed the documentary Terror's Advocate (2007), which was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
He returned to Ibiza in 2015 to direct the drama Amnesia, and in Myanmar he made the final documentary in his trilogy: The Venerable W, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. Barbet Schroeder's films cover a wide range of genres, from documentary to thriller, indie to commercial, and appeal to a wide range of audiences. He has also appeared as an actor in a number of films including Mars Attacks!, Only the Night, Paris I Love You and The Darjeeling Limited. In 2023, Barbet Schroeder filmed his friend, the painter Ricardo Cavallo, in a documentary entitled Ricardo et la Peinture.
Barbet Schroeder was present at the Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne for a conversation the Capitole with Frédéric Maire, during which he received the Prix des Rencontres.
