Visions du Réel

A harrowing one-hour seven-minute documentary that went criminally underreported by film journalists when it premiered at the Berlinale, and whose images have every right to become iconic.

Documentaries from Switzerland feature at DOK.fest Munich, both in the festival line-up and within the Marketplace presentations. Swiss Docs Catherine Ann Berger also reflects on the recent online Visions du Réel.

Best feature to Punta Sacra (Italy), Jury prize to Finnish doc Anerca, Breath of Life.

Visions du Réel Artistic Director Emilie Bujès reflects on the leading Swiss doc event, held online in 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Yeon Park orders a unique present for her father’s birthday, a time travel machine. Her short film describes her fascination for the device, and his subsequent reaction to it.

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

At Visions du Réel, Canadian/Swiss filmmaker Peter Mettler discussed films, time and flying (and all of its inherent contradictions), during a fascinating and entertaining 2-hour online address.

In My Own Landscapes Antoine Chapon has created a film about one man’s form of escapism, a virtual world he helped create to prepare soldiers for the horrors of war.

All of it is love: it's beautiful, it's painful, it's enviable and it's what we live for and through. And it is what this film is undeniably made of.

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.