Visions du Réel

The Soviet Union is not dead – it’s alive and kicking in Magnitogorsk, an unsightly town that resembles a fake film set, but one populated by some very real people.

In the final part of his Sicilian trilogy, Michele Pennetta shows the economic/familial similarities between two marginalized characters sharing the sun-scorched island, a teenage boy and a young Nigerian immigrant.

Beautiful, experimental and boundary-testing documentary entertains with a strange double protagonist and a washed-up white whale.

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.

Shot from a Zurich window, the film inventively combines images of demolition and re-construction with reflections on the loss of loved-ones and the harsh treatment of newly-arrived migrants.

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.

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

Daniel Kemény’s Sòne is a visual and aural treat for the viewer, and a film which, for the director, marks an emotional return to the Italian village of his childhood.

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.

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.