Writer/Director, Sister
Nominated for: Best International Film
Ursula Meier was born on the 24th of June 1971 in Besancon, France. Of both Swiss and French origin, she studied Cinema Direction from 1990 to 1994 at the Institute of Broadcasting Arts (IAD) in Belgium. Thanks to her short movies’ success, she could concentrate on her own films, doing dramas and documentaries, working in the meantime as an assistant on two shootings for Alain Tanner. She was then picked up to take part at the Arte TV films collection “Little Camera” on the theme “Male/Female,” and directed Solid Shoulders in this frame.
In 2008, she directed her first feature film, Home, selected at the Critic’s week at the Cannes Film Festival, starring Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet and Kacey Mottet Klein — young Simon in Sister, who was then shooting for the first time.
