All Visions du Réel articles
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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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Reviews‘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
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NewsSwiss doc ‘The Landscape And The Fury’ leads Visions du Réel 2024 winners
Further winners included Kamal Aljafari’s ‘A Fidai Film’ in Burning Lights.
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NewsVisions du Réel 2024 presents industry prizes worth €50,000
The Iran-born French filmmaker Mehran Tamadon won €20,000 for ‘The Last Days Of The Hospital’.
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Reviews‘Billy’: Visions du Reel Review
Lawrence Cote-Collins tracks her friend Billy’s conviction for murder and his lifelong struggle with mental health
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Reviews‘My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts’: Visions du Reel Review
Syrian residents of Homs tentatively return to the war-ravaged city in the hopes of rebuilding their lives
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Features“My films are cut through with the need to resist the violence of our times,” Alice Diop tells Visions du Reel audience
“My aim is to find the right format for the film I want to make,” said the French filmmaker of documentaries and ‘Saint Omer’.
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Reviews‘My Father’s Diaries’: Visions du Reel Review
Filmmaker Ado Hasanovic revisits the Balkan War through his father’s archival video and diary footage
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Reviews‘Mother Vera’: Visions du Reel Review
A Belorusian convent is the setting for this unique UK-produced story of spiritual self-realisation
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Reviews‘Apple Cider Vinegar’: Visions du Reel Review
Inspired by her own illness, Sofie Benoot sets off to find direct connections between the human body and our planet
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Reviews‘Fragments Of Ice’: Visions du Reel Review
Home video footage of 1980s Ukraine rubs up against its present in Maria Stoianova’s family history
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Features12 documentary talents with first films at Visions du Réel
Screen profiles some of the up-and-coming directors with films at the Swiss documentary festival.
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NewsSquare Eyes boards Visions du Reel competition title ‘After The Snowmelt’ (exclusive)
The documentary centres on the case of two hikers who were trapped in a cave in the Himalaya for 47 days.
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NewsVisions du Réel unveils 2024 line-up with 88 world premieres
The international competition includes films from Sofie Benoot, Adrián Orr and Nicole Vögele.
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NewsMehran Tamadon, Tana Gilbert projects among Visions du Réel 2024 industry programme
29 projects to be pitched at Swiss documentary festival’s VdR-Industry section.
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NewsJia Zhangke to be honoured at Visions du Reel 2024
The Chinese filmmaker will deliver at masterclass at the upcoming documentary festival.
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Reviews‘While The Green Grass Grows’: Visions Du Reel Review
Grand Prix winner at Visions du Reel is part of an epic, personal project from director Peter Mettler
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NewsVisions du Réel awards top prize to ‘While The Green Grass Grows’
The Swiss documentary festival runs April 21-April 30.
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News“There cannot be just one narration style for a planet like this,” says Lucrecia Martel
The Argentinian filmmaker has been working on her docu-drama ‘Chocobar’ for 12 years.
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Reviews‘Machtat’: Visions du Reel Review
A trio of female wedding singers find freedom in their art in this involving Tunisian documentary