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01/09/2013
We seek to promote the widest possible spectrum of documentary cinema: experimental films, essays, personal diaries, family films, films on current affairs and social issues, and films with classic or fragmented narrative approaches
Visions du Réel is an important “must-see” event for documentary films that usually takes place in April/May of each year. The festival opens its doors to a variety of interpretations of documentary films, or cinema du réel, with experimental films, essays, family films, major reports, historical inquiries, and epic or fragmentary stories. Originating in the trend for ciné-clubs, the Festival first came into being in 1969. At the end of the seventies, it reached its first stage of maturity. It was in Nyon that it became possible to discover the films produced in the countries of the Eastern bloc, as well as those from other parts of the world, without forgetting Swiss productions which have always been outstanding for their subject matter and aesthetic qualities. It was also in Nyon that the various struggles for independence found an echo : ranging from the Third World countries to the emancipation of women and even taking in sexual liberation.
The evolution of the Festival continued in 1995, when a new management was appointed. Renamed from then on « Visions du Réel », the event very quickly made a name for itself as one of the most important rendez-vous of this speciality cinema, both in Switzerland and on the international scene.
Alongside a programme planning which encourages meetings and dialogue between every form of cinema du réel (experimental films, essays, diaries, family films, major reports, historical inquiries, epic or fragmentary stories), events such as Etats des Lieux and their Workshops which welcome the illustrious names of cinema (Johan van der Keuken, Robert Kramer, Alexandre Sokourov, Robert Frank, Raymond Depardon or Frederick Wiseman) have become musts. As for Séances spéciales, or Special Sessions, these shed new enlightenment on a group of coherent films ("Corpus Chisti" and Arte, Les Hommes-livres et Memoriav, Steps for the Future and Atelier 02, etc.).
Film categories accepted
- Short films (30 min max)
- Medium length films (between 31 and 60 min)
- Feature length films (60 min +)
Films must have been produced during the 12 months preceding the Festival and presented as world, international or European premiere
Deadline for submission
- Usually from September till early October
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