Docs on the Spot

Visions du Réel (5-13 April) is celebrating its 50th year under the banner of freedom and openness, which have characterized the Festival since its beginnings. It is under this banner, focused both on memory and on the future, that the Festival unveils its programme. For its 50th edition, the International Film Festival Nyon has selected 169 films, from 58 countries, including 102 that will be presented as world or international premieres. A number that shows the pioneering role of the Festival when it is a question of discovering new works of filmmaking.

Visions du Réel has selected 15 powerful works for its International Feature Film Competition, almost all of which are presented as world premieres. For Emilie Bujès, this selection inspires the feeling that “documentary filmmaking, in a definition as large and open as possible, is an inspired, determined and major cinematographic language”.

Without forgetting

- The Sesterce d’or Prix Raiffeisen Maître du Réel to Werner Herzog, who will honor the Festival with his presence for three whole days. The homage dedicated to Werner Herzog includes no fewer than 14 films, several of which will be presented by the director himself.

- The two Ateliers devoted to Tariq Teguia and the duo of Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti, between poetry and politics.