Projections Spéciales
One year of life in Lampedusa, the Sicilian island whose shores refugees from North Africa reach in desperate conditions. For all of them, Lampedusa is the gateway to Europe. Closer to Africa than to...
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...
Helvétiques
Cédric is a farmer. Lila Ribi films him throughout the year in which he decides to radically change his working methods, abandoning conventional agriculture in order to embark on an experiment in...
Grand Angle
Notably famous for their musical docu- mentaries, Donn Alan Pennebaker and his wife Chris Hegedus here explore, in the ‘cinéma direct' style that char- acterises them, the crusade led by the lawyer...
Grand Angle
Janne Suhonen and Antti Apunen, two cave divers, met Juan Reina in 2010, after the publication of their book relat- ing the exploration of the flooded caves under the city of Budapest. Convinced that...
Regard Neuf
Flanked by her phlegmatic sidekick, Dariko is the only outside broadcast journalist at a local Georgian television channel. With derisory resources, she races from one report to another to give an...
Regard Neuf
A collective fresco on the fringes of war: the town of Marioupol in Ukraine is resisting through weapons and its ferocious will to live. Day-to-day events are intertwined here with deeds of war,...
Helvétiques
Armed with a camera and plenty of reckless enthusiasm, two childhood friends decide to take on the adventure of spending the summer at an alpine pasture. The two plan mainly to revive their friendship...
Projections Spéciales
The sperm whale suddenly appears a few centimetres away from Leina Sato, while the free diver is swimming alone in the waters of Mauritius. The animal, deprived of central vision, cannot see her from...
International Feature Film Competition
In the Aysén region in Chilean Patagonia dwell a population of 90,000 isolated souls sharing the harsh landscapes of an area about the size of England. Here where beauty seems to be...
International Medium Length Competition
In a region steeped in history, a lost country: former Yugoslavia. Brankica lives the nomadic existence of sellers of entertainment and “dreams”, follow- ing the rhythm of the fairgrounds; a modest...
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...
Regard Neuf
Sélim Mourad traces the portrait of a family in which he is trying to find his place. The last descendant, losing his fertility, attracted to men, he is won- dering about filiation and confronts his...
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...
Helvétiques
In Pristina, everyone knows Kadri Batusha's house, a concrete and steel castle that arose without plans, archi- tects or permits, and shelters some 300 residents on the heights of the Kosovar capital....
Regard Neuf
At the La Borde psychiatric clinic, founded by Jean Oury, implementing the principles of institutional psychotherapy, the therapy is established around everyday gestures and living together, in the...
Regard Neuf
At its creation at the beginning of the 20th century, the role of the IBIS mari- time school was to take in orphans who had lost their fathers at sea, offering them a home and nautical training....
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 Medium Length Competition
Once there was a divided Germany. West and East. A land divided in two, lives that tried to catch a glimpse of what was beyond the wall. Recollections of that time linger in the shape of post- war...
Regard Neuf
In his previous short film, Flexing Muscles (VdR 2012), Charles Fairbanks took a trenchant and disillusioned look at the Mexican ‘luchadores', commodified poor imitators aping the popular heroes...