All Visions articles
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FeaturesVisions 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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Reviews‘Looking For Horses’: Visions du Reel Review
A solitary fisherman and a documentary filmmaker connect on a remote island in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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ReviewsTo Die Like A Man (Morrer Como Um Homen)
Dir. João Pedro Rodrigues. Portugal-France. 2009. 133 mins.
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ReviewsThe Secret Of Moonacre
Dir: Gabor Csupo. UK. 2008. 103mins.Gabor Csupo’schildren’s fantasyabout a plucky and resourceful 13-year-old girl on a magical quest to thwart an encroaching disaster is undermined by a sluggish blend of humour, disengaged characters and a stagnant narrative line. The script - adapted from Elizabeth Goudge’s The ...
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ReviewsUncertainty
Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel. US. 2008. 101 minsRegular collaborators McGehee and Siegel have hit what is called in baseball a double-a compliment, that—with Uncertainty. In the past, their provocative films have veered toward the academic, as with the study of amnesia in the modern Cain-and-Abel ...
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ReviewsKrabat
Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner. Germany. 2008. 120 mins.The beloved 1971 children’s book by Otfried Preussler finally reaches the screen in a live-action version courtesy of young German director Marco Kreuzpaintner - and the results are impressive. Set in an 18th century Europe ravaged by the plague, the ...
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ReviewsThe Sky Crawlers
Dir: Mamoru Oshii. Japan. 2008. 122mins.Mamoru Oshii’s most meditative feature-length animation to date tells the story of a group of genetically modified eternally-young fighter aces in a world where war has become a company-sponsored reality game. Like the Peter-Pan ‘Kildren’ that it depicts, The Sky Crawlers ...