The objective of Visions du Réel is to show the world as it is perceived, to break away from the mainstream. All the players of the brand Visions du Réel are mobilised to ensure a very high level of quality in their work and to contribute to the common good. The Festival offers a diversity of committed and inspired points of view whilst making it possible to correlate experiences, reflections and aspirations.

The pursuit of excellence, loyalty, tolerance, respect, honesty, and equity, these are the values that must not only influence our relations with others, but must also be found in the films programmed.

We are not just another international Festival. Situated in Nyon in Switzerland - geographically at the centre of Europe - we want to be a crossroads, a stopping place presenting real opportunities for new discoveries, encounters and discussions. We work in French, German and English. The Festival is an axis which provides a link between French and German-speaking cultures especially.

This is a requirement that must ensure and demonstrate the leadership, professionalism and high quality of our work. It must emerge at each decision and at every stage of the Festival´s development, ranging from programming and communication, to management and administration.

Since the beginning of the Festival´s history the professionals of the sector have known that we make sure all the conditions a right for them to feel comfortable and to enable them to work in Nyon (the focus is on the films and the quality of the networks).

However, such an event without the public would have no reason for being. We seek to communicate our project to a great number of spectators from all walks of life. The Festival also seeks to convince those who do not yet know us.

To show the world as it is experienced implies our paying special attention to awakening the senses of our audiences. Emotions and enjoyment, the stimulation of intelligence and curiosity, should be the driving force behind all our endeavours.

We wish to preserve our international stature and to reinforce our position as a « first choice », as an essential event for the professionals of the sector of cinema du réel in Europe, but also in other continents.

Our positioning
Visions du Réel is a unique international Festival providing an overview of the best of cinema du réel. It is the most important in French-speaking Switzerland, and as one of the three main festivals in Switzerland (along with Soleure and Locarno) to be recognised by the Confederation, it features among key international events.

Festival attendance is increasing every year and is varied: professionals of the film sector, journalists, school children, students, politicians, local entrepreneurs and many members of the ordinary public, curious and seeking a change from the mainstream, make themselves receptive to a perception of the world as it is experienced.

In Nyon the cinéma du réel is a cinema in its own right, a moving, intelligent, amusing, serious, and enriching spectacle.

Visions du Réel Nyon, international film Festival
« tension, risky, emotions, reflection, intuitive »