Visions du Réel '21

In Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege Abdallah, Al-Khatib has composed a love song to a place that resists, with dignity, the atrocities of war.

US film director Raoul Walsh made close to 150 films, and Argentinean director/film professor Nicolás Zukerfeld has seen a great many of them, he tells BDE. But there was something that Walsh may or may not have said which became an obsession for Zukerfeld, and which he was determined to get to the bottom of…

A visually stunning, provocative and lyrical essay on modern warfare that raises philosophical and ethical questions about an inevitable future.

In advance of his 2021 VdR masterclass, Pietro Marcello spoke to Business Doc Europe about why, after his success with the Jack London adaptation Martin Eden, he returned to documentary with his new film, Per Lucio (For Lucio), about the maverick Italian musician and singer-songwriter, Lucio Dalla.

A mesmerizing visual essay on the impact of technology. It doesn’t judge but observes, and it poses questions which don’t necessarily need answering.

A smartly observed examination of what happens when political, social and financial imperatives collide, set against the controversial and polarizing backdrop of the area surrounding the World Trade Centre in Brussels North amid plans for its redevelopment.

The little girl is at the kitchen table looking with longing at her mother on a cellphone screen. The mother is far, far away and can’t come home. This is the situation shown in Russian director Anna Artemyeva’s poignant and intimate short, screening this week at Visions Du Réel and also selected for Hot Docs. BDE talks to the director.

One of Latin-America’s most fêted docmakers, Mexican-Salvadorian director Tatiana Huezo will be participating in a masterclass at Visions du Réel 22 April, speaking live from Mexico City. She set aside time in advance to talk to Business Doc Europe about how working on her latest film, a fiction, compares to the doc experience.

Co-director Lietje Bauwens calls herself and colleague Wouter De Raeve “artists with an activist motivation.” In their experimental and thought-provoking WTC,A Love Story they examine exactly where the balance of power lies between political and commercial interests as a major urban redevelopment project is undertaken in Brussels.

Five new Swiss docs-in-progress were presented this week during Visions du Réel Industry on subjects ranging from brilliant novelist Patricia Highsmith, to holding down a relationship during lockdown, to peacetime military manoeuvres by the Swiss army. Business Doc Europe reports.