All Visions du Réel articles
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Reviews
‘The Vanishing Point’: How Iran’s 1979 revolution unleashed generational trauma in one family
Their memories become an act of resistance in Visions du Reel ‘Burning Lights’ winner
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‘The Prince Of Nanawa’, ‘The Vanishing Point’ lead Visions du Reel winners
‘The Prince Of Nanawa’ won the grand jury prize in the international competition.
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Ukrainian documentary takes top prize at Visions du Reel industry awards
Zoya Laktionova’s ’Ashes Settling In Layers On The Surface’ won €20,000.
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‘The Last Shore’ review: The aftermath of the tragic death of a Gambian migrant
Jean-Francois Ravagnan’s debut traces the impact of Pateh Sabally’s 2017 death in Venice
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‘Iron Winter’ review: Young Mongolian herdsmen drive into an extreme climate event
Australian co-pro tracks a lethal winter migration
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‘To The West, In Zapata’ review: Life on the extremes in pandemic-era Cuba
David Bim’s hypnotic black-and-white documentary debuts at Visions du Reel
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‘Flophouse America’ review: Poverty, addiction and one-room living wreak havoc on a child’s life
Close-quarters doc is a study of a family on the margins
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‘Shifting Baselines’ review: Behind the scenes at Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starbase
Boca Chica, Texas lives with the thrills and unquantifiable spills of the space race
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News
Asif Kapadia on the “dark, heavy” journey of getting dystopian doc ‘2073’ made – and seen
The Oscar-winning director discussed the struggles of making and distributing the film at a Visions du Reel masterclass
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Corneliu Porumboiu prepares to film in France later this year
The director’s next project will be an adventure with musical elements
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‘The Big Chief’ review: Close-up on controversial Red Army spy Leopold Trepper
‘1970’ director Tomasz Wolski deploys archive footage to document wartime double agent
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‘Blame’ review: Three Covid-19 scientists fall victim to truth-twisting narratives
Christian Frei’s alarming documentary opens Visions du Reel
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Features
“It’s a form of resistance,” says Visions du Réel’s Emilie Bujès of record submissions to 2025 edition
The documentary competition opens today in Switzerland with Christian Frei’s ‘Blame’.
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Visions du Reel title ‘To the West, in Zapata’ boarded for sales (exclusive)
Feature debut of Havana-based filmmaker David BIM.
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Visions du Reel unveils lineup, will open with pandemic documentary ‘Blame’
This year’s selections features 154 films from 57 countries.
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Visions du Réel 2025 industry line-up includes Sarvnik Kaur, Mariana Otero projects
VdR-Industry runs April 6-9.
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Corneliu Porumboiu to be special guest of Visions du Reel
The Romanian filmmaker is best known for ‘12:08 East Of Bucharest’.
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Raoul Peck to be guest of honour at Visions du Reel
Oscar-nominated Haitian filmmaker’s work includes I Am Not Your Negro and Ernest Cole: Lost and Found.
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Reviews
‘Rising Up At Night’: Visions du Reel Review
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the residents of Kinshasa fight to restore electricity to their beleaguered city
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‘The Landscape And The Fury’: Visions du Reel Review
The fragility of life in the Bosnia and Herzegovina borderlands is challenged by the arrival of refugees in this immersive Visions du Reel winner