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Simon Jaquemet (born 1978) is a Swiss filmmaker and AI artist.[1]
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Born | 1978 (age 45–46)[1] |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Jaquemet was born in Zurich and was raised on a farm near Basel. He studied filmmaking at Zurich University of the Arts.[2]
After directing a series of short films, Jaquemet's feature debut, the teenage drama film War, premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2014.[3] War won the Max Ophüls Award for Best Feature Film and was nominated for Best Feature at the 2015 Swiss Film Awards.[4][5]
Jaquemet's second feature film The Innocent, starring Judith Hofmann as a neuroscience researcher who struggles to reconcile her devout Christian faith with her employer's radical experiments on primates, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.[6] The film garnered Jaquemet a nomination in the Best Screenplay category at the 2019 Swiss Film Awards.[1]
In 2024, Jaquemet's science fiction thriller film Electric Child was selected to premiere at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.[7]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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2014 | War | [3] |
2018 | The Innocent | [6] |
2024 | Electric Child † | [7] |
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2015 | Swiss Film Awards | Best Feature Film | War | Nominated | [4] |
Max Ophüls Film Festival | Best Feature Film | Won | [5] | ||
2019 | Swiss Film Awards | Best Screenplay | The Innocent | Nominated | [1] |