Visions du Réel

Festival Reviews

Visions du Réel’s Emilie Bujès: It’s all about the filmmaking

by Max Borg | Apr 21, 2024 | Festivals, Visions du Réel

Nestled on the shores of Lake Geneva, , Visions du Réel has developed into a small gem for documentary cinema, screening 128 films in its main programs.

Visions du Réel 2024: The Awards

by TheFilmVerdict | Apr 19, 2024 | Festivals, Visions du Réel

Atmospheric, compelling and timely, Swiss documentarian Nicole Vögele’s ‘The Landscape and the Fury’, about migrants trying to cross the Bosnia-Croatian border to reach Europe, won Visions du Réel’s top prize.

Mother Vera

by Carmen Gray | Apr 15, 2024 | Festivals, Visions du Réel

A nun weighs up the freedoms and limits of a Belarusian convent after heartbreak and heroin addiction in this sublime and sensorial debut feature doc.

The Landscape and the Fury

by Carmen Gray | Apr 14, 2024 | Festivals, Visions du Réel

The Balkan landscape is a witness to cycles of time and displacement in Nicole Vögele’s atmospheric, compelling and very human doc.

Kamay

by Carmen Gray | Apr 14, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Visions du Réel

Haunting and multi-layered, this is a stunning debut doc on death, female resistance and knowledge in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Fragments Of Ice

by Carmen Gray | Apr 13, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Visions du Réel

Maria Stoianova draws on her figure-skater father’s ‘80s and ‘90s VHS archive in a poignant debut doc on a Ukraine caught between the illusions of two systems.

Realm of Satan

by Carmen Gray | Apr 12, 2024 | Festivals, Nyon, Visions du Réel

Scott Cummings explores the Church of Satan through theatrical vignettes in his inventive, irreverent documentary portrait of a maligned American outsider culture.