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...
International Short Film Competition
In Southern Iran, in the province of Khuzestan, in a stark and mineral landscape, a woman breaks rocks off a cliff, using only the strength of her arms and a crowbar as a tool. She lives there, in a...
International Short Film Competition
The Teatr Wielki (The Grand Theatre) in Warsaw is the largest opera theatre in the world. But, what happens in the shadows of the Wielki Theater? While maestro Mariusz Trelinski sets the stage for...
International Short Film Competition
On the roofs of Sao Paulo or under the city's lights, the choreographies of three friends affirm that the revolution will come about through the body and the satisfaction of desires. By dancing in...
International Short Film Competition
At the end of 1930s, Ivan Besse, the projectionist of a small town in South Dakota, struck by how his fellow citi- zens appeared lost in the face of the Great Depression, decides to film them in the...
International Short Film Competition
What should you become, when you're already grown up? Sara Stäuble attempts to answer this question in seven surrealist paintings using a snail, a ladder, an aquarium, a table with- out guests and a...
International Short Film Competition
The River Po is the backbone of Italy: the plains it waters are the most fer- tile in the country. Rising at the foot of Mount Viso in the Cottian Alps, its course long served as a cardinal...
International Short Film Competition
It is not easy to be a white collar worker in a highly competitive world and tough working environment such as the post- modern Japanese capitalistic society. “Girls just want to have fun” (as the...
International Short Film Competition
Having crossed an alpine lake by boat, a man sets foot in a wild region. He walks, he listens to the noises of the forest and he observes the trees and rocks. He contemplates the landscape. He notices...
International Short Film Competition
With a camera, Manue wandered a while along the corridors of the psychiatric hospital where she stayed when she became “unscrewed”. The words that she pronounces in a warm and slightly husky voice, to...
International Short Film Competition
The diagonal void is the imaginary line linking the North-East to the South-West of France and crossing the regions with the country's lowest population density. A few fields sprinkled with electric...
International Short Film Competition
In a retirement home whose daily life is punctuated with trivia, the petulant Josebe, age 88, dwells on childhood memories. She looks back with nostalgia on many moments, from slow dances in her...
International Short Film Competition
Alessandra Celesia trained as an actor. It is this experience, on stage as well as in front of the camera, that enables her to guide her characters along life trajectories that are real and imaginary...
International Short Film Competition
Like a science-fiction film, He examines the surreal path of shop window dummies, from their design in a factory to a possible final use. Between the two lies a colourful Iranian society which seems...
International Short Film Competition
Blaise Harrison's films have a soul. Behind this filmmaker's beautiful work lies a reality that he breaks down and rebuilds by following a path, an inner rhythm: what we call a vision, an idea of the...
International Short Film Competition
The Autumn Festival of Dogo, one of the most violent religious festivals in Japan, takes place each year in the town of Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku. From the meticulous preparation to the...
International Short Film Competition
Sigmund Freud used to say, “The mind is like an iceberg, you only see the top of it”. Indeed. The problem is what lies beneath the surface and that cannot be perceived neither by the eye nor told by...
International Short Film Competition
Carmem Dametto is a psychiatrist. She has contributed to a more modern approach to psychiatry in Brazil. Despite her best efforts, the relationship with her daughter has always been difficult in the...