Switzerland’s Visions du Réel documentary pageant will display screen 14 movies, 13 of which can be world premieres, as a part of its official competitors strand at this yr’s pageant, which runs from April 4-13.
The pageant launched its full lineup this morning. The official competitors jury will function Hama Haruka, director of the Yamagata Worldwide Documentary Movie Pageant, American filmmaker Eliza Hittman (By no means, Not often, Generally, At all times), and Greek filmmaker Athiná-Rachél Tsangári (Harvest).
Competitors titles embody Anamocot by French artist Marie Voignier (NA China), Julien Elie (Shifting Baselines), and Little, Large and Far by Jem Cohen (Museum Hours). Scroll down for the complete lineup.
As beforehand introduced, Raoul Peck would be the pageant’s visitor of honor and can obtain the Prix d’Honneur on Monday 7 April, with a tribute by IDFA pageant director and producer Orwa Nyrabia, earlier than a screening of his newest movie Ernest Cole: Misplaced and Discovered. He may also give a masterclass alongside French journalist Elisabeth Lequeret. A retrospective of his documentary and hybrid work may also be screened on the pageant.
Elsewhere, British filmmaker and producer Asif Kapadia will function as a part of the VdR-Trade days with a masterclass. He may also display screen his movie Amy (2015). Hittman, Tsangári, Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani, and Berlinale programmer Michael Stütz may also give trade masterclasses.
Worldwide Function Movie Competitors:
● Anamocot by Marie Voignier, Cameroon/France, 2025, 91’, World premiere
● Aurora by João Vieira Torres, Brazil/Portugal/France, 2025, 129’, World premiere
● Iron Winter by Kasimir Burgess, Australia/Mongolia, 2025, 90’, World premiere
● Little, Large, and Far by Jem Cohen, Austria/USA, 2025, 122’, Worldwide premiere
● La Montagne d’or by Roland Edzard, Belgium/France, 2025, 85’, World premiere
● Niñxs by Kani Lapuerta, Mexico/Germany, 2025, 86’, World premiere
● Obscure Evening – “Ain’t I a Youngster“ by Sylvain George, Switzerland/France, 2025, 164’, World premiere
● Shifting Baselines by Julien Elie, Canada, 2025, 101’, World premiere
● Troopers of Gentle by Julian Vogel and Johannes Büttner, Germany, 2025, 108’, World premiere
● The Attachment by Mamadou Khouma Gueye, Senegal/Belgium/France, 2025, 76’, World premiere
● The Mountain Received’t Transfer by Petra Seliškar, Slovenia/North Macedonia/France, 2025, 94’, World premiere
● The Prince Of Nanawa by Clarisa Navas, Argentina/Paraguay/Colombia/Germany, 2025, 212’, World premiere
● To Use a Mountain by Casey Carter, USA, 2025, 99’, World premiere
● The place Two Oceans Meet by Lulu Scott, France/Belgium/South Africa, 2025, 75’, World premiere
