Projections Spéciales

The adventures of a hotel-restaurant in Alba (Italy) that integrates people with disabilities in their working staff. An exceptional human adventure. Event offered by Mémoire Vive. Free admission.

Projections Spéciales

A competition for people aged 12 to 26, this year on the subject of female/male. These films are presented in the Espaces Jeunesse and visitors vote to award the Prix du public. Award ceremony and screening of the films. Free admission.

Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages

In 2009, the bodies of dozens of migrants, who had been trying to reach Europe via the Canary Islands, were washed up by ocean currents onto a beach in Mauritania. Among these bodies was that of a young white woman. Intrigued by this incident,...

Projections Spéciales

For a long time, the Bernese musician Stephan Eicher has suspected that he has Yenish roots, although the subject was never addressed by his parents. Together with his brother Erich Eicher, lawyer and also musician, and accompanied by the...

Atelier Gianfranco Rosi

Jacopo Quadri : « method editing » at Visions du Réel Jacopo Quadri is the most prominent Italian editor working today. Stepping in the footsteps of legendary professionals such as Eraldo da Roma, Mario Serandrei, Kim Arcalli and Nino...

Atelier Stéphane Breton

Ethnologist and a man of words and images, Stéphane Breton encourages in his Masterclass to think about the art of looking at those who live in places, from New Guinea to the streets of Paris, forgotten by the world.

Maître du Réel

Alain Cavalier, French filmmaker with a remarkable career, whose films crossed the border between fiction and documentary, shares his work methods in a Masterclass.

Projections Spéciales

Some adventures seem to have been invented so that they can be brought to the screen. The crazy bet of going around the world on board a plane powered only by solar energy is one of them. 43,000 kilometres across five continents and two oceans,...

Projections Spéciales

After having already celebrated its 30 th birthday at Visions du Réel, the Association Plans-Fixes will once again be blowing out candles, 40 this time, at the Festival this year, and will take the opportunity to present two portraits. In...

Projections Spéciales

After having already celebrated its 30 th birthday at Visions du Réel, the Association Plans-Fixes will once again be blowing out candles, 40 this time, at the Festival this year, and will take the opportunity to present two portraits. Gil...

Projections Spéciales

Animated documentary filmmaking is booming. Some consider it to be a genre intended for adults. Under the title Ani doc doc , a programme of twelve short films, carefully selected by La Lanterne Magique film club for children, fully intends...

Grand Angle

After a successful dancing decade, Bobbi Jene Smith decides to abandon her starring role with the celebrated based in Tel Aviv Batsheva Dance Company to go back to the United States and focus on her solo career. Resolute to make a name for...

Doc Alliance Selection

The film captures the moment when refugees from Syria are trying to reach Europe crossing through Greece. Stopped at the border between Macedonia and Greece, the Syrians had to face once again fear and rejection while trying to understand how to...

Doc Alliance Selection

At the nursery school in Nesodden, near Oslo, learning is supposed to be fun, first and foremost, but also devoid of imperatives of tangible success. Standing out from many institutions of the same type, the kindergarten, surrounded by a forest,...

Maître du Réel

“A surly, clever and sensitive cobbler, Léon Maghazadjan has been repairing shoes in his district for 47 years. He’s a star. With one hint after another, he announces his forthcoming retirement. Desolation ensues.” (A. Cavalier) Léon is more...

Maître du Réel

“Bernard Crombey is an actor. On stage, he plays the role he wrote himself, of a man unjustly accused of having abused a little girl, whereas he wanted to protect her from the violence of her parents. I’ve been filming him for eleven years, from...

Maître du Réel

“In the morning, Philippe Labro, with his team around a table, prepares his four interviews for that afternoon. An actor, a writer, a theatre actor, and a boxer. Each is filmed in the studio in a single 28-minute take with tracking shots and...

Maître du Réel

“Guillaume Delcourt, 34 years old, supported by his wife Jasmine, is such a talented baker that there are queues outside his premises. But the bakery and the cake shop are narrow. Guillaume is looking for a bigger location to blossom, to turn...

Maître du Réel

“Daniel Isoppo writes short texts that he plays in theatre himself. He also acts in films. In his youth, he was a filmmaker. Every day, in cafés, he plays Rapido grids and also enthusiastically indulges in the many scratch cards offered by the...

Maître du Réel

“For fifteen years, I’ve been filming Jacqueline Pouliquen each time that, heading off on holiday to La Baule, she passes by Chalonnes to open the house of her beloved parents who are no longer there. Cupboards, wardrobes, drawers, everything is...