Béla Baptiste

Directing

Béla Baptiste

Born 1988-03-17 · Berlin, Germany

Born in Berlin and raised in Paris in a theater family, he moved to Vienna and earned an MFA in Film Directing from the Filmakademie Wien, where Michael Haneke taught. He currently works between New York and Paris.

Acting credits

Silence poster
7.1

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Silence

2016

Merge poster
5.7

In a future where technology feels more human than ever, people confront love, loss, and identity as the boundaries between man and machine disappear.

Merge

2025

Angst poster
5.0

When fear no longer exists, Bobby is here to provide you with some primal instinct. In a our real world, which is always in turmoil, we take drugs to gain relief and peace. But in this fictional world of total peace, we take drugs to experience turmoil, so we can be more human again.

Angst

2021

Concrete Whisper poster
NR

A medieval saga and the surreal game in a chat group gradually give shape to a creature that makes its tracks through the big city. As the plot develops, the urban environment increasingly gains significance, with social and political themes influencing the progress of the story.

Concrete Whisper

2024

The Dead and the Living poster
4.6

The personal journey of young Sita is not only an expedition into her family's burdened past during World War 2. It is also a journey to the abyss of modern European society, a trip which takes her from Berlin to Romania via Vienna and Warsaw - about losing one's homeland and discovering oneself, about hope and responsibility.

The Dead and the Living

2012

After Love poster
2.0

A cinematic menage-a-trois between a photographer, a rentboy and a transsexual call girl.

After Love

2015

Profilers: Gaze Into the Abyss poster
6.5

Documentary about the work of 6 criminal profilers around the world.

Profilers: Gaze Into the Abyss

2014

Lilly Schönauer: Liebe mit Familienanschluss poster
3.5

The divorced Johanna wants to contract with her new friend Klaus, as she completely unexpectedly met her great ex-love Walter again. Twenty years ago, the renowned professor of literature emigrated to the USA and for the first time returned to his homeland. At that time Johanna had taken on an affair with Walter and still does not know whether her daughter Marie, with whom she subsequently became pregnant, is from him or her former husband. When Marie falls in love with Walter's son Tom, it's high time to find out.

Lilly Schönauer: Liebe mit Familienanschluss

2013

Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren poster
4.6

In order to be able to marry the princess, the miller boy Hans has to find his way to hell. If he fails to steal three golden hairs from the devil, all is lost.

Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren

2009

Behind the camera

Merge poster
5.7

In a future where technology feels more human than ever, people confront love, loss, and identity as the boundaries between man and machine disappear.

Merge

2025

Merge poster
5.7

In a future where technology feels more human than ever, people confront love, loss, and identity as the boundaries between man and machine disappear.

Merge

2025

No artwork available
NR

This 360° visual experience tells four interwoven stories that unfold simultaneously, inviting the viewer to decide where to look.

Vanishing Point

2018

No artwork available
NR

This 360° visual experience tells four interwoven stories that unfold simultaneously, inviting the viewer to decide where to look.

Vanishing Point

2018

No artwork available
NR

A woman's kindness toward a stranger becomes a struggle for control when he follows her into her apartment and later returns violently through the window. A phone call links past and present in this reenactment of a true story about fear, survival, resilience and forgiveness.

Belleville

2025

The Obelisk poster
NR

While fighting for survival in the wilds of the Northeast, a drifter unites with a mysterious veteran to expose the truth of America’s demise.

The Obelisk

2026

The Obelisk poster
NR

While fighting for survival in the wilds of the Northeast, a drifter unites with a mysterious veteran to expose the truth of America’s demise.

The Obelisk

2026

The Obelisk poster
NR

While fighting for survival in the wilds of the Northeast, a drifter unites with a mysterious veteran to expose the truth of America’s demise.

The Obelisk

2026

No artwork available
NR

An Austrian short film presented in a single continuous take.

By the Way

No artwork available
NR

An Austrian short film presented in a single continuous take.

By the Way

No artwork available
NR

An Austrian short film presented in a single continuous take.

By the Way

Angst poster
5.0

When fear no longer exists, Bobby is here to provide you with some primal instinct. In a our real world, which is always in turmoil, we take drugs to gain relief and peace. But in this fictional world of total peace, we take drugs to experience turmoil, so we can be more human again.

Angst

2021

No artwork available
NR

Picture this: you’re about to watch a video on YouTube, but first, you have to sit through a forced advertisement. This ad introduces La Langue – a fictional toothbrush that mimics the movements of a human tongue. This bizarre yet meticulously designed product is presented as an essential item for personal hygiene.

La Langue

No artwork available
NR

A young man is walking back home when a construction worker addresses him. He needs his help to take the measurements of the floor. Cooperatively, the young man follows him to the construction site.

Frühlings Erwachen

2012

Percht poster
NR

It's Christmas season in a small town somewhere in the Austrian countryside. Following tradition, the young local men parade in daemon-like masks to chase away the winter...

Percht

2018

Percht poster
NR

It's Christmas season in a small town somewhere in the Austrian countryside. Following tradition, the young local men parade in daemon-like masks to chase away the winter...

Percht

2018

I Watch Her Sleep poster
NR

Based on Philippe Garbit's short story “Je la regarde dormir,” a woman is accused of a cruel crime by a man who claims to be her friend. After many sleepless hours, the boundaries between madness and reality begin to blur, and at her last supper the man becomes the judge of life and death.

I Watch Her Sleep

2017

I Watch Her Sleep poster
NR

Based on Philippe Garbit's short story “Je la regarde dormir,” a woman is accused of a cruel crime by a man who claims to be her friend. After many sleepless hours, the boundaries between madness and reality begin to blur, and at her last supper the man becomes the judge of life and death.

I Watch Her Sleep

2017

No artwork available
NR

A New Yorker searching for the world's best beer takes a series of wrong turns through Hamburg and Vienna before reaching a happy ending in Murau.

Pale as Ale

2019

No artwork available
NR

A New Yorker searching for the world's best beer takes a series of wrong turns through Hamburg and Vienna before reaching a happy ending in Murau.

Pale as Ale

2019

No artwork available
NR

A New Yorker searching for the world's best beer takes a series of wrong turns through Hamburg and Vienna before reaching a happy ending in Murau.

Pale as Ale

2019

The Dutchman's Pipe poster
NR

Two detectives have been called to the mansion of Mrs. Deroche. She has gone missing and so has her 17th century heirloom: The Dutchman's Pipe. Their only suspect is the young Austrian appraiser, Peter Zenk, who has never watched the sound of music.

The Dutchman's Pipe

The Dutchman's Pipe poster
NR

Two detectives have been called to the mansion of Mrs. Deroche. She has gone missing and so has her 17th century heirloom: The Dutchman's Pipe. Their only suspect is the young Austrian appraiser, Peter Zenk, who has never watched the sound of music.

The Dutchman's Pipe

What's in Your Bag? poster
NR

In a world caught between banality and brutality, “What’s in Your Bag?” embodies our complicity in the spectacle of surveillance. It offers us a stark reflection of our willingness to look – and, perhaps, our inability to stop.

What's in Your Bag?

2025