Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

Visions du Réel will pay tribute to one of the world's major filmmakers during its 50th edition. Werner Herzog will be awarded the Sesterce d'or Prix Rai eisen Maître du Réel. In partnership with...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog reunites with volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer — met on the shooting of   Encounters at the End of the World — for a scientific and metaphysical quest as close as...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

Back in the heyday of European exploitation cinema, when Italians made Westerns in Almería, when blind zombies rode out of tombs and black-gloved killers stalked beautiful women in their shower, Klaus...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

29 years after a plane crash in the Peruvian jungle, Werner Herzog returns to the site of the accident accompanied by the sole survivor, Juliane Koepke, who was 17 at the time. Determined to have her...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

German-American pilot Dieter Dengler—a Vietnam war veteran—lives with a constant desire to fly. Today retired, secluded in his house, facing the camera, he evokes the memories of a life: his...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

If “every film is a documentary about its own shooting” as per the axiom decreed by the critic and filmmaker Jacques Rivette, then  Fitzcarraldo  could definitely serve be an exception. Fiction,...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

The result of long wanderings of more than three years on the African continent,  Fata Morgana  accounts for the complex relationship that Werner Herzog maintains with the world and more precisely...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

Over a six-month period, Werner Herzog meets several times with 87-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev, the former President of the Soviet Union. They talk about politics, inevitably, about the six...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

During the austral summer, when the sun never sets, Werner Herzog heads to the South Pole to film the places as well as the people that have chosen to live there. Fascinated by the footage a diver...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

A group of astronauts orbits around the Earth without the possibility of getting home because the planet has become inhabitable. What happened while they were away? The causes of this catastrophe have...

Maître du Réel Werner Herzog

Timothy Treadwell lived among bears in a natural park in Alaska. Over 13 summers, until his fatal encounter with an aggressive grizzly, he filmed his adventure, in turn appearing as infantile,...