Visions du Réel offers a moment of suspended time in which to bridge human divides through the medium of cinema. This is the very role of a festival, and of culture more broadly, which, then as now, must be relentlessly promoted and defended, in Switzerland and elsewhere, precisely in the name of everything it helps to build, or deconstruct.
The programme of the 57th edition will be released on 25 March 2026.

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