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Imminent submissions date of April 30 for doc projects eyeing up release September 2020 through to August 2021

The 2020 Visions du Réel Industry awards cover the Pitching du Réel, Docs in Progress, Rough Cut Lab and Opening Scenes events.

With professional activities set to kick off April 25, Visions du Réel’s co-head of Industry Gudula Meinzolt talks through this year’s online programme.

“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.

Not the first documentary by a bi-cultural director searching for her roots. But Their Algeria manages to deal with the matter in a light yet profound way, leaving you moved and informed.

A new doc on Stanley Kubrick uses, for the first time, the audio of interviews conducted by French critic Michel Ciment. The result serves as a good introduction to his oeuvre, with the ‘final room’ from 2001 working as a clever focus point.

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.

In her selection for Medium/Short Comp, Daria Yurkevich follows a family of three girls and their mother living within a rural community in Belarus… in the shadow of Chernobyl.