Switzerland’s Visions du Réel documentary festival will screen 14 films, 13 of which will be world premieres, as part of its official competition strand at this year’s festival, which runs from April 4-13.
The festival launched its full lineup this morning. The official competition jury will feature Hama Haruka, director of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, American filmmaker Eliza Hittman, and Greek filmmaker Athiná-Rachél Tsangári (Harvest).
Competition titles include Anamocot by French artist Marie Voignier (Na China), Julien Elie (Shifting Baselines), and Little, Big and Far by Jem Cohen (Museum Hours). Scroll down for the full lineup.
As previously announced, Raoul Peck will be the festival’s guest of honor and will receive the Prix d’Honneur on Monday 7 April, with a tribute by IDFA festival director and producer Orwa Nyrabia, before a screening of his latest film Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. He will...
The festival launched its full lineup this morning. The official competition jury will feature Hama Haruka, director of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, American filmmaker Eliza Hittman, and Greek filmmaker Athiná-Rachél Tsangári (Harvest).
Competition titles include Anamocot by French artist Marie Voignier (Na China), Julien Elie (Shifting Baselines), and Little, Big and Far by Jem Cohen (Museum Hours). Scroll down for the full lineup.
As previously announced, Raoul Peck will be the festival’s guest of honor and will receive the Prix d’Honneur on Monday 7 April, with a tribute by IDFA festival director and producer Orwa Nyrabia, before a screening of his latest film Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. He will...
- 3/12/2025
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Visions du Réel, one of Europe’s foremost documentary festivals, returns for a 56th edition with its most diverse lineup to date, featuring some 154 films from a record 57 countries.
Spanning the globe, from Mongolia to Australia, Cameroon to Lebanon, the selection underscores the festival’s rising stature as a truly international platform for documentary cinema and a key meeting point for industry professionals.
It features an impressive 88 world premieres by both newcomers and veterans, highlighting the festival’s commitment to discovery and diversity. First-time filmmakers also hold a strong presence, with 58 debut films.
Nearly half of the films are directed by men, with women helming 39%, and the rest credited to non-binary or collective efforts.
“Little, Big and Far”
“We are proud that our selection once again reflects an openness to the world,” said artistic director Emilie Bujès, adding that she was impressed by the record-breaking 3,437 entries.
The International Feature Film Competition will see 14 films,...
Spanning the globe, from Mongolia to Australia, Cameroon to Lebanon, the selection underscores the festival’s rising stature as a truly international platform for documentary cinema and a key meeting point for industry professionals.
It features an impressive 88 world premieres by both newcomers and veterans, highlighting the festival’s commitment to discovery and diversity. First-time filmmakers also hold a strong presence, with 58 debut films.
Nearly half of the films are directed by men, with women helming 39%, and the rest credited to non-binary or collective efforts.
“Little, Big and Far”
“We are proud that our selection once again reflects an openness to the world,” said artistic director Emilie Bujès, adding that she was impressed by the record-breaking 3,437 entries.
The International Feature Film Competition will see 14 films,...
- 3/12/2025
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Seven Portuguese titles will screen during the Berlinale, and a bevy of Portuguese producers are attending the European Film Market seeking co-producers and international sales agents for their projects.
Two Portuguese features will screen in the non-competitive Berlinale Forum dedicated to more avant-garde cinema. “The Portuguese Woman,” a historical drama by Rita Azevedo Gomes, is based on Robert Musil’s “Three Women,” adapted by Portuguese novelist, Agustina Bessa-Luis. The film premiered at Argentina’s Mar del Plata. It has an austere filmic style, based on static movements of the actors, thereby creating tableaux vivants.
“Serpentarius” is about a young man in search of his mother’s ghost in a post-disaster African landscape. Angolan-born Carlos Conceição’s shorts include “Goodnight Cinderella” and “Bad Bunny” which both played in Cannes’ Critics Week.
The Forum Expanded sidebar includes 40-minute experimental documentary “Fordlandia Malaise” by Susana de Sousa Dias, about failed utopia Fordlandia, established...
Two Portuguese features will screen in the non-competitive Berlinale Forum dedicated to more avant-garde cinema. “The Portuguese Woman,” a historical drama by Rita Azevedo Gomes, is based on Robert Musil’s “Three Women,” adapted by Portuguese novelist, Agustina Bessa-Luis. The film premiered at Argentina’s Mar del Plata. It has an austere filmic style, based on static movements of the actors, thereby creating tableaux vivants.
“Serpentarius” is about a young man in search of his mother’s ghost in a post-disaster African landscape. Angolan-born Carlos Conceição’s shorts include “Goodnight Cinderella” and “Bad Bunny” which both played in Cannes’ Critics Week.
The Forum Expanded sidebar includes 40-minute experimental documentary “Fordlandia Malaise” by Susana de Sousa Dias, about failed utopia Fordlandia, established...
- 2/9/2019
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
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