Visions du Réel has released the program for its 55th edition. The official selection consists of 165 films from 50 different countries, with gender parity for the second year running. There are 88 world premieres and 14 international premieres among the 128 new films.
“The 128 new films selected this year once again offer our audience the opportunity to immerse themselves in the most contemporary of cinema, through a rich and varied range of forms, approaches, devices and subjective viewpoints, and an array of excerpts from real stories and narratives. The program, which is largely composed of films discovered from the 3300 films that were submitted – representing an increase in submissions of more than 10% this year – reaffirms the ambition of Visions du Réel to help support the emergence of new talents. For instance, the International Feature Film Competition alone includes ten debuts in its selection of fifteen films. Lastly, we are continuing to relentlessly strive towards gender parity, which, as was the case in 2023, we have once again achieved this year.” – Emilie Bujès, Artistic Director of the Festival.
International Feature Film Competition
The Jury for the International Feature Film Competition, comprising the outgoing artistic director of the Berlinale Carlo Chatrian, Swiss filmmaker Carmen Jaquier (director of Thunder, which premiered at TIFF and San Sebastian International Film Festival 2022 before becoming Switzerland’s pick for the 2023 Oscars) and producer Dora Bouchoucha (whose films include Hedi and Dear Son by Mohamed Ben Attia, and Foreign Body by Raja Amari)
Apple Cider Vinegar
by Sofie Benoot
Belgium/Netherlands
World Premiere
Fragments of Ice
by Maria Stoianova
Ukraine/Norway,
World Premiere
Far West
by Pierre-François Sauter
Switzerland/Portugal
World Premiere
In Limbo
by Alina Maksimenko
Poland
World Premiere
Kamay
by Ilyas Yourish and Shahrokh Bikaran
Afghanistan/Germany/Belgium/France
World Premiere
My Memory Is Full of Ghosts
by Anas Zawahri
Syria
World Premiere
Mother Vera
by Cécile Embleton and Alys Tomlinson
United Kingdom
World Premiere
Okurimono
by Laurence Lévesque
Canada, 2024
World Premiere
Rising Up at Night
by Nelson Makengo
Germany/Belgium/Burkina /Faso/Qatar/Democratic Republic of the Congo
International Premiere
The Landscape and the Fury
by Nicole Vögele
Switzerland
World Premiere
The Song of Others
by Vadim Jendreyko
Switzerland
World Premiere
The Return of the Projectionist
by Orkhan Aghazadeh
Germany/France
World Premiere
To Our Friends
by Adrián Orr
Spain/Portugal
World Premiere
Where the Trees Bear Meat
by Alexis Franco
Argentina/Spain/United States
World Premiere
We Are Inside
by Farah Kassem
Lebanon/Qatar/Denmark
World Premiere
To see all of the films at the 55th edition of Visions du Réel, click here
Festival takes place 12 – 21 April 2024
