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Reviews
‘The Landscape And The Fury’: Visions du Reel Review
The fragility of life in the Bosnia and Herzegovina borderlands is challenged by the arrival of refugees in this immersive Visions du Reel winner
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News
Swiss doc ‘The Landscape And The Fury’ leads Visions du Réel 2024 winners
Further winners included Kamal Aljafari’s ‘A Fidai Film’ in Burning Lights.
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Visions du Réel 2024 presents industry prizes worth €50,000
The Iran-born French filmmaker Mehran Tamadon won €20,000 for ‘The Last Days Of The Hospital’.
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Features
“My films are cut through with the need to resist the violence of our times,” Alice Diop tells Visions du Reel audience
“My aim is to find the right format for the film I want to make,” said the French filmmaker of documentaries and ‘Saint Omer’.
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Features
12 documentary talents with first films at Visions du Réel
Screen profiles some of the up-and-coming directors with films at the Swiss documentary festival.
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Visions du Reel’s Emilie Bujès on why the festival is a platform for new documentary talent
The Swiss film festival runs in Nyon from April 12-21.
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‘Immortals’: CPH:DOX Review
Young Iraqis born after the 2003 US occupation try to carve out their own lives in a repressive Baghdad
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Mehran Tamadon, Tana Gilbert projects among Visions du Réel 2024 industry programme
29 projects to be pitched at Swiss documentary festival’s VdR-Industry section.
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‘Stray Bodies’: Thessaloniki Review
Elina Psykou explores how issues of IVF, abortion and euthanasia are treated differently across Europe
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‘Gloria!’: Berlin Review
A young woman finds her voice in an Italian musical institute at the turn of the 19th century
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Ted Hope, Beki Probst and Bobby Allen join Locarno’s new industry advisory board
Board is led by Nadia Dresti and aims to help festival navigate shifts in the indie cinema landscape
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Asif Kapadia to serve up Roger Federer documentary for Prime Video
The untitled film will chronicle the final 12 days of Federer’s tennis career.
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Features
Sophia Bösch on her Rotterdam premiere ‘Milk Teeth’: “I try to bring a female experience of the world to film”
Dystopian drama set in an isolated rural community is debut feature of the Swiss filmmaker.
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Cercamon boards Berlin Panorama title ‘Paradises Of Diane’, releases first trailer (exclusive)
The Swiss film is directed by Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassman.
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‘Milk Teeth’: Rotterdam Review
A child threatens the security of an isolated village in this atmospheric feature debut from Swiss director Sophia Bosch
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‘Reinas’: Sundance Review
Tender tale of two adolescent girls reconnecting with their father in turbulent 1990s Peru
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Features
30 European films to tempt festival directors in 2024
Including new features by Tom Tykwer, Paz Vega, Paolo Sorrentino, Cecilia Verheyden and Baltasar Kormakur.
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Heretic wraps production on ‘Novak’ starring Zlatko Burić and Ella Rumpf (exclusive)
Greek–Swiss co-production is feature debut of Harry Lagoussis
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‘Thunder’: Review
Switzerland’s Oscar entry is an assured debut exploring female sexual awakening in the summer of 1900
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Senegalese filmmaker Rokhaya Marieme Balde’s on themes of “resistance and cultural preservation” in her debut feature
Balde’s feature debut ‘Seeking Aline’ is participating in Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops.