Lieu: Espace Jeunesse
Vernissage de l'Espace Jeunesse qui accueille les films de réalisateurs en herbe de 4 à 26 ans, projetés en continu durant toute la durée du Festival.
Small city, big story. In the Wichita Foothills rises a different Jerusalem, right in the heart of Oklahoma. For the past 88 years, the eastern pageant...
Le centre de psychiatrie légale est un établissement fermé de sécurité moyenne, avec un volet dédié à la réadaptation. On y trouve des services...
Photography appears here as a power- ful means of testifying to one of the most terrible periods in the history of Chile: the Pinochet...
In Parchim, in northern Germany, a former military airport attracts the interest of a Chinese investor. Mr Pang has big ideas: he imagines an airport...
Television spare parts follow each other and grow in number on an electronic soundtrack. From an installation made of materials found in the street,...
A large electronics store welcomes vendors and customers. Cameras are there to show that the company's slogans are not lies. A manipulation...
On the one hand, there is Murdochville, founded in Gaspésie in 1950 following the discovery of a large copper deposit. In 1970, it had over 5,000...
Throughout the 1980s, the young people of Geneva demanded spaces of political and cultural freedom. Their fight resulted in the creation of ‘l'Usine',...
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”...
During the shoot for Flying Over the Blue Field, Stonys and his team stayed in the Brištonas sanatorium. Here, fascinated, he filmed the bodies...
From his first film directed in 1989, Audrius laid the foundations of his documentary poetry: filming the life of humble people—here, a community...
Gates of the Lamb is an atypical film in the work of Audrius Stonys. Firstly, because it was initiated by a Lithuanian cleric, Gediminas Numgaudis, who...
Venue: Forum
Length: 90'
Free Admission
"Is the cinéma du réel a propaganda and war tool or a medium bringing people together?" With the participation of Ivo Kummer, Franziska Reck, Lionel Baier, Giona A. Nazzaro and Beat Glur.
The absurd and touching portrait of Erwin Valdebenito, an office worker whose daily life is one of routine and anonymity. But his obsession with...
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...
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...
In his previous film, Hoax Canular (VdR 2014), Dominic Gagnon revealed the obsessions of a western youth tempted by nihilism through a montage of ama-...
From the window of this apartment, we observe principally the vestiges of the Officine Meccaniche Reggiane company, a European rail industry empire,...
An account of a counter-memorial of Italian immigration to Switzerland in the 1960s is weaved through the memories of a woman whose accent suggests a...
Venue: Théâtre de Marens
Length: 110'
Official Festival Opening Ceremony followed by the screening of Presenting Princess Shaw. A Opening Night will then take place at the Village du Réel.
Drinks at the Bar du Réel (Rue des Marchandises) offered by Visions du Reel two main sponsors at the end of the ceremony.
A young woman who works during the day as a care assistant in a nursing home, transforms into Princess Shaw at night, and posts her a cappella songs on...
A young woman who works during the day as a care assistant in a nursing home, transforms into Princess Shaw at night, and posts her a cappella songs on...
Location: Bar du Réel
Free admission
Visions du Réel is more than just films: every evening the public is welcome in a cosy musical atmoshpere, tonight with Lady Black Sally.
Continuing its successful collaboration with Visions du Réel, the children's film club The Magic Lantern offers – with the precious support of...
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...
Lieu: Forum
Durée: 120'
A daily debate with filmmakers: the encounters and discussions between directors and their audience are among the highlights of the Festival.
Theme: "How to compose a narrative"
In Parchim, in northern Germany, a former military airport attracts the interest of a Chinese investor. Mr Pang has big ideas: he imagines an airport...
In an intimate quest undertaken with modesty, the filmmaker René Ballesteros and his sister seek to reconnect with their mother who disappeared...
From the window of this apartment, we observe principally the vestiges of the Officine Meccaniche Reggiane company, a European rail industry empire,...
“I am a star butterfly and I love baroque dancing”: Aurélia attends a Parisian psychiatric day hospital. With other patients of the same...
A mother conditioned by the culture of the country in which she was born, her depression, and her illness. A daughter, who takes care of her, but who...
On Santa Fé Street in Santiago in Chile, the director Carmen Castillo was injured and her companion killed while fighting in resistance to the Pinochet...
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...
In an isolated village in the Lithuanian countryside, an old woman faces the camera and recites a poem. Later, she will scale a vertiginous...
“Pain does not affect us only in the mourning experience that exposes us to Eternity but also through life itself which throws us into the course of...
After having revealed what goes on behind the scenes in gold mining with Dirty Gold War, Daniel Schweizer tackles another issue that could tarnish...
Venue: Théâtre de Marens
Visions du Réel welcomes the photography exhibition developed by the UEFA which meets the children of the Za'atari camp in the cisjordanian desert.
In an isolated corner of Japan, a community of fisherwomen harmoniously preserve their traditions. Every day, the Ama-San free dive into the sea in...
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...
A film built on lies, assuming the end of the world on 21 December 2012 as the greatest of them. Conquering fear by manufacturing scares: that's...
Like many people his age, thirteen-year old Gabriele dreams of motorbikes. But this passion for speed finds itself thwarted by his switch into...
Anoosh and Arash are DJs of Tehran's underground house music scene. However, the fight for their right to party is very tough. In order to organise...
An account of a counter-memorial of Italian immigration to Switzerland in the 1960s is weaved through the memories of a woman whose accent suggests a...
Small city, big story. In the Wichita Foothills rises a different Jerusalem, right in the heart of Oklahoma. For the past 88 years, the eastern pageant...
Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia; gypsy enclave and birthplace of flamenco. They get together every day at the “Colegio”, a former school converted...
Shot in southern Hungary in one of the largest deer farms in Europe, Pulse films a paradox: the symbol of “wildlife” reduced to semi-servitude. From...
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 start of the film: we hear a nurse in the process of putting a man onto life support. Who is he? The name engraved on a headstone in the next...
From a Serbian family from Sarajevo who emigrated to the Netherlands at the beginning of the civil war in Yugoslavia, the filmmaker has followed...
A summer night, on the water's edge, hundreds of people, men and women, have gathered. It's Paris, on the banks of the Ourcq Canal, La Villette...
The portrait of Grisélidis Réal, a key figure in Geneva's recent history, is sketched out between Switzerland where an unusual life path bloomed and...
Urban gardeners in post-industrial Detroit, the native American activist Milo Yellow Hair and his agricultural project, the rebel gardener Maurice...
Venue: Théâtre de Marens
Length: 120'
Perspectives d'un Doc Award Ceremony which promotes creative documentary filmmaking in French-speaking Switzerland. The Ceremony will be followed by the screening of Wild Plants by Nicolas Humbert.
Venue: Théâtre de Grand-Champ
Length: 120'
Official Opening ceremony followed by the screening of Presenting Princess Shaw.
A young woman who works during the day as a care assistant in a nursing home, transforms into Princess Shaw at night, and posts her a cappella songs on...
A new world order, control systems, the financial markets, the collapse of the economy, survival, hatred of politics, the Bible and the Constitution,...
A man appears onscreen, announcing the end of the patriarchy and the coming of the matriarchy in the United States. Immediately afterwards comes a...
Three extraordinary jazzmen from Czechoslovakia, Laco Deczi (trumpet), Jan Jankeje (contrabass) and Lubo Tamškovič (saxophone) set off on their music...
Cédric is a farmer. Lila Ribi films him throughout the year in which he decides to radically change his working methods, abandoning conventional...
Audrius Stonys was able to direct this “flight” thanks to sophisticated filming techniques and specific sound delivery recreating the wind. The result...
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,...
During the Swedish-Lithuanian war 300 years ago, the bell of the Plateliai church was apparently dismantled and then left to sink at the centre of the...
Foreign Affairs is admittedly Pasha Rafiy's first film but his work as a pho- tographer has already revealed his attention to detail in the...
Venue: Théâtre de Grand-Champ
Length: from 21:30
Following the screening of Presenting Princess Shaw, the night will stay under the influence of the New Orleans. Enjoy a moment of music with the great Jazzin' Jazz Band.
Location: Bar du Réel
Free admission
Visions du Réel is more than just films: every evening the public is welcome in a cosy musical atmoshpere, tonight with DJ RudeBoys.
Location: La Parenthèse
Free price admission
Visions du Réel and La Parenthèse are coming together to give your more music! Tonight with It It Anita.
11th September, the memory of a loved one, a dog called Lolabelle... What are the stories? How are they told to us? Heart of a Dog is a film about...
A mother conditioned by the culture of the country in which she was born, her depression, and her illness. A daughter, who takes care of her, but who...
The portrait of Grisélidis Réal, a key figure in Geneva's recent history, is sketched out between Switzerland where an unusual life path bloomed and...
Images (snow-covered roads, empty corridors, objects, TV programmes, inte- riors of houses or hotel rooms, etc.) are shown on a screen split into four,...
Car races, planes and airports, men and women waiting, an eagle in flight, a bison in the fog. Sustained music and silence. Analogical editing, without...
Venue: Aux Horizons (Avenue des Eules 9)
Length: 60'
The Protestant and Catholic Parishes of Nyon meet during Visions du Réel and invite the interreligious Jury at Aux Horizons.
Cédric is a farmer. Lila Ribi films him throughout the year in which he decides to radically change his working methods, abandoning conventional...
From a Serbian family from Sarajevo who emigrated to the Netherlands at the beginning of the civil war in Yugoslavia, the filmmaker has followed...
Lieu: Forum
Durée: 120'
A daily debate with filmmakers: the encounters and discussions between directors and their audience are among the highlights of the Festival.
Theme: "The usefulness of the development or pre-production phase"
In an isolated corner of Japan, a community of fisherwomen harmoniously preserve their traditions. Every day, the Ama-San free dive into the sea in...
Anoosh and Arash are DJs of Tehran's underground house music scene. However, the fight for their right to party is very tough. In order to organise...
Foreign Affairs is admittedly Pasha Rafiy's first film but his work as a pho- tographer has already revealed his attention to detail in the...
Throughout the 1980s, the young people of Geneva demanded spaces of political and cultural freedom. Their fight resulted in the creation of ‘l'Usine',...
A summer night, on the water's edge, hundreds of people, men and women, have gathered. It's Paris, on the banks of the Ourcq Canal, La Villette...
L'Esame di Xhodi (VdR 2008), the first feature-length film by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, focused on the temporary residents of the Art...
Urban gardeners in post-industrial Detroit, the native American activist Milo Yellow Hair and his agricultural project, the rebel gardener Maurice...
Like many people his age, thirteen-year old Gabriele dreams of motorbikes. But this passion for speed finds itself thwarted by his switch into...
“I am a star butterfly and I love baroque dancing”: Aurélia attends a Parisian psychiatric day hospital. With other patients of the same...
The first shot of the film is dazzling. Accompanied by distant cries of agita- tion, rockets burst into blinding light the obscurity of a dark...
Two boys spend their summer roaming the countryside. Empty roads, small woods. The sun shines lazily down on them, while each day brings new and...
On 11 March 2011, an earthquake and a tsunami near the Japanese coast caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima. In the days following the catastrophe,...
Mahmud, aged 29, was part of the rebel movements that fought against Bachar el-Assad's regime before seeing the rise in power of the Islamic State...
Venue: Village du Réel - Forum
Language: English
Until 17:30
Access: open to the public
Discover the editorial line of festivals from different parts of the world.
The relationship between two brothers, Markus and Lukas, observed in the minutest detail by their director mother, as much in its apparent everyday...
They belong to the generation born after the bloody separation of former Yugoslavia. Carmen Jaquier and Nagi Gianni filmed them on a promontory that...
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...
During the Second World War, a Lithuanian farmer found the bodies of three dead soldiers — two Russians and a German — near his house. Fearing...
Afghanistan is a country at the centre of a tragic contradiction. It is magnificent in its nature as well as tormented by its people's pain. Even...
Venue: Village du Réel - Forum
Until 19:30
Hosted by SODEC
Access: all accredited welcome
Join us for daily drinks to meet other professionals in a casual atmosphere.
At the foot of the Andes in Patagonia, Camilo Peña is an old gaucho suffering from an illness that is leading him resolutely to blindness. He...
After having revealed what goes on behind the scenes in gold mining with Dirty Gold War, Daniel Schweizer tackles another issue that could tarnish...
Marcel Schaffner was a Swiss painter born in Basel in 1931 and influenced by the post-war American movements, particularly abstract expressionism and...
Imagine that. The supreme military headquarters of the United States sum- mon their archenemy Michael Moore for a super-classified debriefing. The...
In comparing an old photograph of her great-grandmother, Genoveva, with her own photo and discussing it with her daughter—who has a strong resemblance...
This is Rocky Balboa. In real life. Karim Chakim is 38 years old. He is madly in love with his wife and children. Boxing is a tricky mistress but...
In the night and cold of the Icelandic winter, workers are organised around a trawler returning from deep-sea fishing whose holds are full of frozen...
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...
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...
“My anger protects me!” Sat in his car, with a long beard and dishevelled hair, Joetalk100 talks to the camera. He has just got out of prison. He...
Location: Bar du Réel
Free admission
Visions du Réel is more than just films.. Coming from Iran, Blade and Beard, the two main protagonists of Raving Iran, are going to make you dance all night long.
Lieu: Colombière Grande Salle
Language: English
Until 13:00
Access: registration required
A Students Meeting and a dedicated programme of festival and mar- ket activities offer students opportunities for networking, exchange and access to decision makers and experienced film professionals.
This is Rocky Balboa. In real life. Karim Chakim is 38 years old. He is madly in love with his wife and children. Boxing is a tricky mistress but...
This film retraces a little-known chapter of Chilean history for the first time: after their exile in Europe, militants of the Revolutionary Left...
A labourer, who is working on the construction of the largest prison in Uruguay, leads a double life. With a certain regularity, he crosses the bor-...
Lieu: Forum
Durée: 120'
A daily debate with filmmakers: the encounters and discussions between directors and their audience are among the highlights of the Festival.
Theme: "Sound design and music: when do they become matters of concern or reflection?"
Venue: Colombière DOCM Lab 1
Language: English
Until 12:30
Access: open to all accredited
Discover the editorial line of festivals from different parts of the world.
The first shot of the film is dazzling. Accompanied by distant cries of agita- tion, rockets burst into blinding light the obscurity of a dark...
L'Esame di Xhodi (VdR 2008), the first feature-length film by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, focused on the temporary residents of the Art...
Two boys spend their summer roaming the countryside. Empty roads, small woods. The sun shines lazily down on them, while each day brings new and...
At the foot of the Andes in Patagonia, Camilo Peña is an old gaucho suffering from an illness that is leading him resolutely to blindness. He...
Mr Nishida is an entomologist. He has a close bond to the natural environment. On a scientific expedition to the island of Yakushima, an island of...
Romania. Seven years in the life of a family of believers, struck by the illness of a little girl suffering from spina bifida pass before the...
At the La Borde psychiatric clinic, founded by Jean Oury, implementing the principles of institutional psychotherapy, the therapy is established...
Mahmud, aged 29, was part of the rebel movements that fought against Bachar el-Assad's regime before seeing the rise in power of the Islamic State...
On 11 March 2011, an earthquake and a tsunami near the Japanese coast caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima. In the days following the catastrophe,...
Venue: Village du Réel – Forum
Language: English
Until 17h30
Access: Open to DOCM accredited
Learn how to promote your films, find a sales agent, define a distribution strategy or get to know the basics of the film industry in individual meetings with our experts.
An inside look at the PKK Kurdish guerrillas. Between scenes of training and daily life, the speech reveals the intimate and political motivations of...
From 1942 until the end of the war, Brunhilde Pomsel worked as a stenographer for the Nazi regime's minister for propaganda Joseph Goebbels. The last...
Triokala the ancient Greek name for Caltabellotta, a little village in Southern Sicily. The “three beautiful things” to which its name refers are the...
Venue: Village du Réel – Forum
Language: English
Until17:30
Access: DOCM accredited welcome
Guest DOCM experts across distribution, sales and festival sectors are available for short individual meetings. 10 minutes meetings, booked on site.
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...
Sebastian and Joshua Ratha are brothers—by blood and in business. In Amsterdam, they have founded a financial start-up, “Arete Caerus”, a name worthy...
Marcel Schaffner was a Swiss painter born in Basel in 1931 and influenced by the post-war American movements, particularly abstract expressionism and...
Winter 2014. Edouard Philippe, a forty- year-old loyal to Alain Juppé, cam- paigned to keep his place as Mayor of Le Havre. Laurent Cibien, one of...
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...
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...
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...
Venue: Village du Réel - Forum
Until 19:30
Hosted by Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival & Czech Film Center
Access: all accredited welcome
Join us for daily drinks to meet other professionals in a casual atmosphere.
In the night and the fog of winter, a train crosses Eastern Europe, today. On board, human figures have become phantoms. The speech that accompanies...
In the 1970s, the three Le family sons were separated by History: one, appointed to be a diplomat, left South Vietnam for West Germany and moved to...
Afghanistan is a country at the centre of a tragic contradiction. It is magnificent in its nature as well as tormented by its people's pain. Even...
In 1931, Sergei Eisenstein travelled to Guanajuato in Mexico to shoot a film. Building on the huge success of his masterpiece Battleship Potemkin...
Venue: Théâtre de Marens
Length: 60'
Winner of the Prize Raiffeisen Maître du Réel lifetime achievement award this year: English director Peter Greenaway
It's summer once again. The machine of tourist entertainment starts grinding again. People coming from all over the world flood the Adriatic. On a...
A sandy beach at the ocean. Holidaymakers are beginning to converge, the lifeguard is carefully preparing his station. A Californian-style atmosphere...
Chur, a provincial life, between desire for freedom and deep despair. The film- maker follows a path going over the traces of a deceased friend, a...
Riace is a small village in Calabria. Once there were warriors roaming the land. Today it is a safe haven for refugees. A small community and its...
For its 30th birthday, La Fémis gives us access to “L'Enfer”. Like the restricted section in libraries, this short-film programme unveils the French...
Location: Bar du Réel
Free admission
Visions du Réel is more than just films: every evening the public is welcome in a cosy musical atmoshpere, tonight with Biiodisco.
From 1942 until the end of the war, Brunhilde Pomsel worked as a stenographer for the Nazi regime's minister for propaganda Joseph Goebbels. The last...
Triokala the ancient Greek name for Caltabellotta, a little village in Southern Sicily. The “three beautiful things” to which its name refers are the...
In the 1970s, the three Le family sons were separated by History: one, appointed to be a diplomat, left South Vietnam for West Germany and moved to...
Lieu: Forum
Durée: 120'
A daily debate with filmmakers: the encounters and discussions between directors and their audience are among the highlights of the Festival.
Theme: "When the cinematic apparatus reveals itself during the editing"
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...
Romania. Seven years in the life of a family of believers, struck by the illness of a little girl suffering from spina bifida pass before the...
In the night and the fog of winter, a train crosses Eastern Europe, today. On board, human figures have become phantoms. The speech that accompanies...
Erik Satie's work is at the heart of modern music. However, who was Satie? An elusive genius or a visionary misanthrope? The film tries to sketch an...
Deadlock is the second installment in the five-documentary film series dedicated to the Armenian diaspora by filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan. The...
Venue: Salle Communale
Length: 120'
As every year, Visions du Réel in collaboration with Pro Senectute is offering accompanied screenings for senior citizens. Followed by an afternoon snack, these screenings give the senior citizens the opportunity to meet the filmmaker as well as a member of the Festival's management team.
Derar Nseir and Mohamad Mehani are two truckers used to crossing borders, small towns and cities. Derar is Lebanese, Mohamad Egyptian. Derar transports...
Riace is a small village in Calabria. Once there were warriors roaming the land. Today it is a safe haven for refugees. A small community and its...
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...
Sebastian and Joshua Ratha are brothers—by blood and in business. In Amsterdam, they have founded a financial start-up, “Arete Caerus”, a name worthy...
Venue: Village du Réel – Forum
Language: English
Until 17h30
Access: DOCM accredited welcome
Learn how to promote your films, find a sales agent, define a distribution strategy or get to know the basics of the film industry in individual meetings with our experts.
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...
A sensual immersive visual trip in the world of magic, myth and nature in Indonesia. Ladya is working with a documentary crew who is searching for...
Venue: Village du Réel – Forum
Language: English
Until 17:30
Access: DOCM accredited welcome
Guest DOCM experts across distribution, sales and festival sectors are available for short individual meetings. 10 minutes meetings, booked on site.
Mr Nishida is an entomologist. He has a close bond to the natural environment. On a scientific expedition to the island of Yakushima, an island of...
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....
Lee and Opal live in Linefork, Kentucky, an impoverished rural area, legendary for the labour history and environmental devastation tied to the coal...
Venue: Colombière DOCM Lab II
Length: 90'
Language: French and German (simultaneous translation)
Free admission
An inside look at the PKK Kurdish guerrillas. Between scenes of training and daily life, the speech reveals the intimate and political motivations of...
Calais, the compulsory transit point for all refugees wishing to get to England, is a real hell. Between the waiting time spent in the miserable...
A wedding home movie, the only trace of past happiness, was saved from the flames that destroyed the house of a couple. Stonys follows here the...
Almost entirely composed of archives, Four Steps is Audrius Stonys' most literally ethnographic film. The reels shown do not come from official...
Venue: Village du Réel - Forum
Until 19:30
Hosted by Eurodoc
Access: all accredited welcome
Join us for daily drinks to meet other professionals in a casual atmosphere.
When Floh, armed with her accordion, starts one of her songs on the Grand-Place in Brussels, she does so with raucous energy. She has an impulse of...
In the mountains and lowlands of Kurdistan, young PKK guerilleras fight against the Islamic State. Immersed in their environment, the film shows...
In his previous short film, Flexing Muscles (VdR 2012), Charles Fairbanks took a trenchant and disillusioned look at the Mexican ‘luchadores',...
Venue: Colombière DOCM Lab 2
Until 22:30
Access: DOCM accredited welcome
Input, awards & fiesta! Attend the round table discussion 'Swiss TVs - Visions & Realities' and the Award ceremony for Focus Chile and Docs in Progress, and then take a break from all the busy activities: grab a glass of pisco sour and an empanada and go to meet other DOCM accredited professionals or dance on Latin American music.
The most closed-off country in the world, North Korea, is a country whose leaders would like us to believe is perfect. “The best country in the...
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...
At the La Borde psychiatric clinic, founded by Jean Oury, implementing the principles of institutional psychotherapy, the therapy is established...
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,...
The first row of the Stonys pantheon features timeless characters. This one could almost be the exception, having lived out a kind of saga. Because...
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...
Back in the village after his studies in town, Maofu is 20 years old and his ambition is to modernise his father's bee farm. However, the latter...
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) was founded in Prague in 1947. Influential filmmakers and screenwriters such as Miloš...
Location: Bar du Réel
Free admission
Visions du Réel is more than just films: every evening the public is welcome in a cosy musical atmoshpere, tonight with DJ Giona.
In the mountains and lowlands of Kurdistan, young PKK guerilleras fight against the Islamic State. Immersed in their environment, the film shows...
A sensual immersive visual trip in the world of magic, myth and nature in Indonesia. Ladya is working with a documentary crew who is searching for...
When Floh, armed with her accordion, starts one of her songs on the Grand-Place in Brussels, she does so with raucous energy. She has an impulse of...
Lieu: Forum
Durée: 120'
A daily debate with filmmakers: the encounters and discussions between directors and their audience are among the highlights of the Festival.
Theme: "The relationship between the filmmaker and the filmed subject"
Lee and Opal live in Linefork, Kentucky, an impoverished rural area, legendary for the labour history and environmental devastation tied to the coal...
Deadlock is the second installment in the five-documentary film series dedicated to the Armenian diaspora by filmmaker Harutyun Khachatryan. The...
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....
Tadmor is an infamous prison. Until 1946, it was used as barracks by the French military during its international mandate in Syria and Lebanon. In...
In a mountainous and arid region, Samir lives off oil smuggling. He trans- ports the merchandise on the back of a mule from his Algerian village to...
With its 37 million inhabitants, Chongqing is one of the largest agglom- erations in the world. This is where Sloth, Shrek, Yoyo, Shark and...
Erik Satie's work is at the heart of modern music. However, who was Satie? An elusive genius or a visionary misanthrope? The film tries to sketch an...
Derar Nseir and Mohamad Mehani are two truckers used to crossing borders, small towns and cities. Derar is Lebanese, Mohamad Egyptian. Derar transports...
A tireless traveller through space and time, Carlos Klein explores the confines of Patagonia with his first feature–length film, plunging the viewer...
Like his compatriots, applicants in search of a better life, who follow each other during the inaugural sequence of Not My Job before a finicky...
Back in the village after his studies in town, Maofu is 20 years old and his ambition is to modernise his father's bee farm. However, the latter...
Venue: Village du Réel – Forum
Language: English
Until 17:30
Access: DOCM accredited welcome
Guest DOCM experts across distribution, sales and festival sectors are available for short individual meetings. 10 minutes meetings, booked on site.
In a region steeped in history, a lost country: former Yugoslavia. Brankica lives the nomadic existence of sellers of entertainment and “dreams”,...
A story of the Siberian province. Girls passed directly on from orphanage to neuropsychiatric institutions are deprived of their rights as citizens: no...
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...
Notably famous for their musical docu- mentaries, Donn Alan Pennebaker and his wife Chris Hegedus here explore, in the ‘cinéma direct' style that...
Angelica has a sexual problem: a psychological and physical block. Through a video diary shared with two other girls, she tries to understand what is...
Flanked by her phlegmatic sidekick, Dariko is the only outside broadcast journalist at a local Georgian television channel. With derisory resources,...
Should we eat meat or not? Marijn, a journalist for a consumer programme and a young mother from Amsterdam, would like to stop. The ecological...
Venue: Village du Réel - Forum
Until 19:30
Hosted by Syndicat suisse film et vidéo
Access: all accredited welcome
Join us for daily drinks to meet other professionals in a casual atmosphere.
Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock High School is an alternative school for students at risk of dropping out. Directors...
What goes on behind the closed cur- tains of an itinerant circus? Director Luigi Cuomo takes us on journey to a world that is almost forgotten. Without...
The most closed-off country in the world, North Korea, is a country whose leaders would like us to believe is perfect. “The best country in the...
“In terms of politics, we haven't understood anything. But musically, I think we have understood something.” This phrase that Fatoumata Diawara...
Ibrahima, a Senegalese, takes on various small jobs in Tangiers while wait- ing to realise his dream of reaching the Old Continent. Agostinho, age...
“We use the strength of resilience pro- voked by six emotional states: bore- dom, sadness, solitude, anger, disgust and indifference.” The manifesto...
“The whole life of these societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of ‘spectacles'. All...
There is nothing left of the American dream on the Nine—a solemn destination, a resting place for those who have relinquished the dream. Modesto is a...
Calabria, the title of the new film by Pierre-François Sauter, designates a geographical space (a region in the south of Italy) that is as real as...
In his previous short film, Flexing Muscles (VdR 2012), Charles Fairbanks took a trenchant and disillusioned look at the Mexican ‘luchadores',...
Location: Bar du Réel
Free admission
Visions du Réel is more than just films: every evening the public is welcome in a cosy musical atmoshpere, tonight with The Burning Beggars.
In a mountainous and arid region, Samir lives off oil smuggling. He trans- ports the merchandise on the back of a mule from his Algerian village to...
Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock High School is an alternative school for students at risk of dropping out. Directors...
News offers a collage of images of the world and a specific and at times dis- turbing observation of society through fragments of reality that question...
Lieu: Forum
Durée: 120'
A daily debate with filmmakers: the encounters and discussions between directors and their audience are among the highlights of the Festival.
Theme: "Searching for common grounds where to reflect on documentary practice"
Flanked by her phlegmatic sidekick, Dariko is the only outside broadcast journalist at a local Georgian television channel. With derisory resources,...
In a region steeped in history, a lost country: former Yugoslavia. Brankica lives the nomadic existence of sellers of entertainment and “dreams”,...
Ibrahima, a Senegalese, takes on various small jobs in Tangiers while wait- ing to realise his dream of reaching the Old Continent. Agostinho, age...
A story of the Siberian province. Girls passed directly on from orphanage to neuropsychiatric institutions are deprived of their rights as citizens: no...
“When we talk of war, children count only in terms of statistics. What these innocent victims feel, how they behave, is rarely evoked.” (FB) Sarah...
Venue: Capitole
Length: 120'
As every year, Visions du Réel in collaboration with Pro Senectute is offering accompanied screenings for senior citizens. Followed by an afternoon snack, these screenings give the senior citizens the opportunity to meet the filmmaker as well as a member of the Festival's management team.
What goes on behind the closed cur- tains of an itinerant circus? Director Luigi Cuomo takes us on journey to a world that is almost forgotten. Without...
Moa Pillar, an electronic music artist, heads for the Caucasus in search of inspiration, and then to work with traditional Circassian musicians....
Calabria, the title of the new film by Pierre-François Sauter, designates a geographical space (a region in the south of Italy) that is as real as...
Thirteen dinners of a Chinese migrant worker's family over the course of fourteen months. The film portrays a series of random occurrences. Joys,...
With its 37 million inhabitants, Chongqing is one of the largest agglom- erations in the world. This is where Sloth, Shrek, Yoyo, Shark and...
Like his compatriots, applicants in search of a better life, who follow each other during the inaugural sequence of Not My Job before a finicky...
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...
Like an audiovisual fresco of the modern city – in this case, London – Sit and Watch adopts the form of “channel-hopping” revolving around different...
Tadmor is an infamous prison. Until 1946, it was used as barracks by the French military during its international mandate in Syria and Lebanon. In...
Un concours de chansons patriotiques dans des écoles primaires en Pologne. Histoires de bravoure et de sacrifice. De sang et de larmes. De courage...
Should we eat meat or not? Marijn, a journalist for a consumer programme and a young mother from Amsterdam, would like to stop. The ecological...
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,...
Venue: Usine à Gaz
Length: 120'
The Festival Reflex opened a short film competition for young people (aged 12 to 26) of Western Switzerland on the theme of 'Behind closed doors'. The awards ceremony is a unique occasion to meet these emerging talents.
Free entrance
There is nothing left of the American dream on the Nine—a solemn destination, a resting place for those who have relinquished the dream. Modesto is a...
In Abidjan, the “Go” live in “fresh girl ghettos”, outside the territories of professional prostitution. Aged from 10 to 24 years, illiterate,...
Venue: Village du Réel - Forum
Until 19:30
Hosted by Les Vins de Nyon
Access: all accredited welcome
Join us for daily drinks to meet other professionals in a casual atmosphere.
“In terms of politics, we haven't understood anything. But musically, I think we have understood something.” This phrase that Fatoumata Diawara...
The relationship between two brothers, Markus and Lukas, observed in the minutest detail by their director mother, as much in its apparent everyday...
The streets of Santiago in the middle of the night, filled with crowds, the sounds of parties, flashing lights. It's New Year's Eve: men, women,...
In this family road movie, a mother and daughter set off together in search of one of their beloved ones: the sister for the mother and the biological...
In the turmoil following the Iranian revolution that changed not only the political history of Iran but also of the world, pictures of Khomeini and...
The island of Socotra, located off the coast of Somalia, was long a legendary territory and more recently a strategic place in international politics....
Childhood, the carefree life on a Swiss farm. There are the gestures of children and those of adults. There are games and work. The warmth of the home...
Venue: Théâtre de Grand-Champ
Length: from 21:30
Following the screening of Mali Blues, the night stays under the influence of West Coast Africa. Enjoy a moment of music with the fabulous Onirical Band and their great jazzy beninese compositions.
Location: Bar du Réel
Free admission
Visions du Réel is more than just films: every evening the public is welcome in a cosy musical atmoshpere, tonight with DJ Edwee.
Location: La Parenthèse
Free price admission
Visions du Réel and La Parenthèse are coming together to give your more music! Tonight with Basia Bulat.
They are seven, eight and nine years old. Lala, Kalulah and Muhabat recently arrived in Belgium from Afghanistan. Margaux Dauby films this space, very...
Thirteen dinners of a Chinese migrant worker's family over the course of fourteen months. The film portrays a series of random occurrences. Joys,...
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...
Lieu: Forum
Durée: 120'
A daily debate with filmmakers: the encounters and discussions between directors and their audience are among the highlights of the Festival.
Theme: "The role of the producer"
The island of Socotra, located off the coast of Somalia, was long a legendary territory and more recently a strategic place in international politics....
The first image is reminiscent of a black-and-white postcard, similar to those found in flea markets: we see Valparaiso, Chile's second city and a...
“I'm a good person”: this is the affirmation, bordering on justification, with which Jorgelino Vergara introduces himself to camera. As an...
In Abidjan, the “Go” live in “fresh girl ghettos”, outside the territories of professional prostitution. Aged from 10 to 24 years, illiterate,...
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,...
Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia; gypsy enclave and birthplace of flamenco. They get together every day at the “Colegio”, a former school converted...
Calais, the compulsory transit point for all refugees wishing to get to England, is a real hell. Between the waiting time spent in the miserable...
Venue: Forum
Length: 60'
In 1308, the workers for the Duomo of Siena commissioned from Duccio di Buoninsegna a monumental Madonna in Majesty featuring saints and, on the...
Venue: Théâtre de Marens
Length: 135'
Awards ceremony and screening of the movie The Journey. The night will continue in l'Usine à Gaz for the closing party.
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,...
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,...
Venue: Usine à Gaz
Free admission
Closing party with Admiral Fallow et DJ Phil.
With the generous support of La Mobilière
In a retirement home whose daily life is punctuated with trivia, the petulant Josebe, age 88, dwells on childhood memories. She looks back with...
Like an audiovisual fresco of the modern city – in this case, London – Sit and Watch adopts the form of “channel-hopping” revolving around different...
Flanked by her phlegmatic sidekick, Dariko is the only outside broadcast journalist at a local Georgian television channel. With derisory resources,...
Flanked by her phlegmatic sidekick, Dariko is the only outside broadcast journalist at a local Georgian television channel. With derisory resources,...
Tadmor is an infamous prison. Until 1946, it was used as barracks by the French military during its international mandate in Syria and Lebanon. In...
A young woman who works during the day as a care assistant in a nursing home, transforms into Princess Shaw at night, and posts her a cappella songs on...
A young woman who works during the day as a care assistant in a nursing home, transforms into Princess Shaw at night, and posts her a cappella songs on...
Thirteen dinners of a Chinese migrant worker's family over the course of fourteen months. The film portrays a series of random occurrences. Joys,...