La ligne
The Line | Die Linie

Stéphanie Blanchoud
La ligne | The Line | Die Linie by Ursula Meier
CHE, FRA, BEL 2022, Competition
© 2022 BANDITA FILMS / LES FILMS DE PIERRE / LES FILMS DU FLEUVE / ARTE FRANCE CINEMA / RTS / RTBF (Télévision belge) / VOO et BE TV

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
La ligne | The Line | Die Linie by Ursula Meier
CHE, FRA, BEL 2022, Competition
© 2022 BANDITA FILMS / LES FILMS DE PIERRE / LES FILMS DU FLEUVE / ARTE FRANCE CINEMA / RTS / RTBF (Télévision belge) / VOO et BE TV

Stéphanie Blanchoud
La ligne | The Line | Die Linie by Ursula Meier
CHE, FRA, BEL 2022, Competition
© 2022 BANDITA FILMS / LES FILMS DE PIERRE / LES FILMS DU FLEUVE / ARTE FRANCE CINEMA / RTS / RTBF (Télévision belge) / VOO et BE TV

Elli Spagnolo
La ligne | The Line | Die Linie by Ursula Meier
CHE, FRA, BEL 2022, Competition
© 2022 BANDITA FILMS / LES FILMS DE PIERRE / LES FILMS DU FLEUVE / ARTE FRANCE CINEMA / RTS / RTBF (Télévision belge) / VOO et BE TV
With
- Stéphanie Blanchoud (Margaret)
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Christina)
- Elli Spagnolo (Marion)
- Dali Benssalah (Hervé)
- India Hair (Louise)
- Benjamin Biolay (Julien)
- Eric Ruf (Serge)
- Thomas Wiesel (Claudio)
- Jean-François Stévenin (Fisherman)
- Louis Gence (Youri)
Crew
Director | Ursula Meier |
Screenplay | Stéphanie Blanchoud, Ursula Meier, Antoine Jaccoud |
Cinematography | Agnès Godard |
Editing | Nelly Quettier |
Music | Jean-François Assy, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Benjamin Biolay |
Sound Design | Etienne Curchod, Franco Piscopo |
Sound | Patrick Becker |
Production Design | Ivan Niclass |
Costumes | Anna Van Brée |
Make-Up | Kaatje Van Damme |
Casting | Aurélie Guichard |
Assistant Director | Sonia Rossier |
Production Manager | Nicolas Zen-Ruffinen |
Producers | Pauline Gygax, Max Karli |
Co-Producers | Marie-Ange Luciani, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson |
Associate Producers | Lionel Baier, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Ursula Meier, Frédéric Mermoud |
Co-Production |
Les Films de Pierre Paris Les Films du Fleuve Lüttich Arte France Cinéma Paris RTS Genf RTBF Brüssel VOO, BE TV Brüssel |
World sales
Memento International
Produced by
Bandita Films

Film Team
In the Berlinale Palast.
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Ursula Meier, Stéphanie Blanchoud
The director and two of her actors in the frenzy of the flashing lights.
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022

Elli Spagnolo, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Ursula Meier, Stéphanie Blanchoud
Welcome to Berlinale Palast.
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022

Ursula Meier
The director engrossed in conversation.
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022

India Hair, Elli Spagnolo, Benjamin Biolay, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Ursula Meier
The cast and the director (right) at the Red Carpet.
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022

India Hair, Benjamin Biolay, Elli Spagnolo
The actors sorted by colours.
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022

India Hair
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022
© Jens Koch

Elli Spagnolo
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022
© Jens Koch

Benjamin Biolay
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022

Stéphanie Blanchoud
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022
© Jens Koch

Ursula Meier
La ligne · Competition · Feb 11, 2022
© Jens Koch
India Hair, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Ursula Meier, Stéphanie Blanchoud, Benjamin Biolay, Elli Spagnolo
La ligne | The Line | Die Linie
Competition · Press Conference · Feb 11, 2022
Press Conference at full length
La ligne | The Line | Die Linie
Competition · Red Carpet · Feb 11, 2022
Ursula Meier

The French-Swiss filmmaker studied filmmaking in Belgium. She began her directing career with successful short films and documentaries. Her debut feature film, Home, premiered in the 2008 Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, was nominated for three César awards in 2009 and won prizes including the Swiss Film Prize for Best Fiction Film. Sister won the Special Award Silver Bear at the 2012 Berlinale. In 2018, Diary of my Mind, a TV film she made as part of the Shock Waves series inspired by Swiss news stories, screened in the Berlinale Panorama.
Filmography (selection)
1994 Le songe d’Isaac (Isaac’s Dream); short film 1998 Des heures sans sommeil (Sleepless); short film 2000 Autour de Pinget (About Pinget); documentary 2001 Tous à table (Table Manners); short film 2002 Pas les flics, pas les noirs, pas les blancs (Not the Cops, Not the Blacks, Not the Whites); documentary 2008 Home 2012 L’enfant d’en haut (Sister) 2014 Silence Mujo; segment of the episodic film “Bridges of Sarajevo” 2015 Kacey Mottet Klein, Naissance d’un acteur (Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth of an Actor); short film 2018 Ondes de choc – Journal de ma tête (Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind) 2021 La ligne (The Line)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022