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...
Helvétiques
Marcel Schaffner was a Swiss painter born in Basel in 1931 and influenced by the post-war American movements, particularly abstract expressionism and Color Field. In this documentary portrait made...
International Feature Film Competition
In the mountains and lowlands of Kurdistan, young PKK guerilleras fight against the Islamic State. Immersed in their environment, the film shows us, in an emotional manner, the...
International Feature Film Competition
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 he steps in the ring again. Maybe for...
International Feature Film Competition
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 Bonn with his children. He has never returned to his...
International Feature Film Competition
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 search of seaweed, crustaceans and shellfish that...
International Feature Film Competition
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 Academy of Tirana. Those of the...
Helvétiques
Ibrahima, a Senegalese, takes on various small jobs in Tangiers while wait- ing to realise his dream of reaching the Old Continent. Agostinho, age 57, has spent his life fishing on his boat. But...
Regard Neuf
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 city that lies in California's Central Valley, a...
International Feature Film Competition
Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock High School is an alternative school for students at risk of dropping out. Directors Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe ( Lost in La Mancha ...
International Feature Film Competition
A story of the Siberian province. Girls passed directly on from orphanage to neuropsychiatric institutions are deprived of their rights as citizens: no freedom, no work, and no family. The path to...
Grand Angle
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 the legends talk of an earthly...
Premiers Pas
Andrei squats in the ruins of the former Barcelona casino on La Rabassada. Having become the unlikely keeper of a building that condensed the Catalan bourgeoisie's dreams at the start of the 20th...
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...
Regard Neuf
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 fish. There are 20,000 crates of 25kg to unload in...
Regard Neuf
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 environment of the personalities whose portraits he takes....
Helvétiques
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 and then also fighting them. But after ISIS attacked...
Helvétiques
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 basin and it has been like this for many years. People...