Premiers Pas
Philbert Mbabazi is failing to talk to “the old people” about colonisation. This is when he meets an individual in Geneva who claims to be the son of Marshal Mobutu and has himself filmed clad in an...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Alone (a prize-winner at Visions du Réel in 2001) is a film whose power appears inversely proportional to the simplicity of its approach: a filmmaking team, which appears on screen several times,...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Audrius Stonys was able to direct this “flight” thanks to sophisticated filming techniques and specific sound delivery recreating the wind. The result invites us to enjoy, via images and sound, the...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Fedia draws calmly on his cigarette when the director asks him to comment on God, Heaven and Hell or the Big Bang, which two scholars are “describing” in front of the camera. It's the silence of the...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
During the shoot for Flying Over the Blue Field , Stonys and his team stayed in the Brištonas sanatorium. Here, fascinated, he filmed the bodies plunged into baths of mud, water or steam in this...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Accompanied by a dissonant violin, two old friends take up a traditional song evoking an aviator shot down during the war, who never came back to his beloved. Then a child goes down a cycle path,...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
In an isolated village in the Lithuanian countryside, an old woman faces the camera and recites a poem. Later, she will scale a vertiginous ladder up to the roof of a church, like this man who is...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
Alexander Oboladze, a Georgian, had an epiphany, which he compares to that of Paul on the road to Damascus. Ever since, he has spent his time, regardless of the season, wandering the small streets of...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
The film by which Audrius Stonys immediately received attention at the beginning of the 1990s is impossible to summarise, other than by speaking about the unique world of dreams or that of free...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
With Baltic Way , shot at the end of his film studies, Audrius Stonys seizes the first and irrepressible breath of freedom wafting across the places, bodies and views of his people during the...
Atelier Audrius Stonys
From his first film directed in 1989, Audrius laid the foundations of his documentary poetry: filming the life of humble people—here, a community centred around the figure of a priest—like a...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A large city, old people strolling, men and women at work, small children having fun in a park. In his first film, Gagnon captures the implacable movement of a life that flows along. “In the...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
Men, seen from afar, driven by the dynamics of work. The machine is no longer an extension of the bodies, of their strength. Man is now driven by the machine. The alienation of humanity is...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
A large electronics store welcomes vendors and customers. Cameras are there to show that the company's slogans are not lies. A manipulation transforms the recordings and instils doubt. “The people...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
Television spare parts follow each other and grow in number on an electronic soundtrack. From an installation made of materials found in the street, this film emphasises the end of an era, that of...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
With the screen split into four, clips of films and interviews with ordinary people, the film evokes the media story of Aurore Gagnon, the tragic heroine of a cult Quebec film. “I had a huge box of...
Atelier Dominic Gagnon
The filmmaker's daughter looks at herself on a computer screen, using it like a mirror. She is surprised to see the colour of her lips…A searing indication of the future generation's relationship with...
Premiers Pas
They belong to the generation born after the bloody separation of former Yugoslavia. Carmen Jaquier and Nagi Gianni filmed them on a promontory that overlooks the Kovači Muslim cemetery in...
Premiers Pas
On the heights of Sarajevo, in the fog, we discover men who are milling around an abandoned house. Who are they? What are they doing? What tracks are they busy trying to erase? In one movement, a slow...
International Short Film Competition
Two things, well known to Visions du Réel audience, form the terms of a perfect contradiction. The inhabitants of Latvia genuinely love alpine ski- ing, but their territory consists only of flat...