Nick Cunningham

“Seven short films. Seven influential directors from around the world. A portrait of the quarantine which tears down all borders,” boasts leading Greek festival of YouTube presentation.

In Le grand viveur, a film that proves that cinema is first and foremost a visual medium, Perla Sardella delivers a beautiful and elegiac (and ostensibly silent) portrait of a mysterious filmmaker from the past.

In Trio, selected for Medium/Short Competition we are reminded of what long school trips were really like, as well as the tough business of being an adolescent.

Details announced of selections in Public Pitch, Speed Meetings, Rough Cut Pitch, Doc Series Forum and Campus Barcelona categories.

2018 winner Mirror, Mirror on the Wall by Sascha Schöberl (pictured) to world-premiere in Vision du Réel’s Grand Angle.

The Netherlands presents four projects at Visions du Réel 2020, including Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum's The Ride, in Medium Length & Short Film Competition.

Valentin Merz Tanören’s Brothers – A Family Film is an intimate if ‘autofictional’ account of a relationship between two siblings who seem perennially at odds.

In times of global meltdown/lockdown (delete as appropriate), it’s a relief to watch a LOL doc, even if the subject is not a laughing matter. Rodrigo Muñoz discusses his short doc Le prix du bonheur.

On the eve of Visions du Réel 2020, Swiss Films Managing Director Catherine Ann Berger talks docs, disruption and the benefits that can be derived from the enforced switch to digital.

Czech producer Alice Tabery discusses her Traces of a Landscape (Int’l Medium and Short Comp), about an artist and the place he returns to again and again for inspiration.