Always innovative and committed, Visions du Réel in Nyon will be screening 174 films as part of its 49^th edition (13 to 21 April), coming from a whopping 53 different countries, with the marked presence of American, British and Eastern European productions (mainly the Ukraine and Serbia, which is the subject of a dedicated Focus).

Although Emilie Bujès' first edition kicks off in continuation of the work carried out over a long and fruitful period by her predecessor, Luciano Barisone, the festival's sections have been slightly reshaped in the image of the its new director. This year’s main development is the creation of the Burning Lights section, which hopes to open up the festival to experimentation in new cinematographic languages, putting a focus on the strong link between documentary and fiction. Among the sixteen films selected for this new section are the Swiss productions A Bright Light - Karen and the Process [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Emmanuelle Antille (a musical documentary on the mythical and mysterious singer Caren Dalton) and Sisters [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by the American and naturalised Swiss director Peter Entell.

European films are also very well-represented (most of them in world premiere), with the following films in international competition: the Swiss productions Genesis 2.0 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev (which premiered at Sundance) and Los fantasmas del Caribe [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], a Swiss, Colombian, French co-production by Felipe Monroy, who returns to Colombia for a no-holds-barred observation of his native country, A l’infini [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by the French director Edmond Carrère, Almost Nothing [+lee también:
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entrevista: Anna de Manincor
ficha de la película] (an Italo-French-Belgian co-production) by the Italian artist Anna de Manincor, who will be accompanied by her compatriot Luca Magi with Stories of the Half-Light [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Davis Simanis (co-produced by Latvia and the Czech Republic), Hombre en la llanura by Patricio Suárez (Spain and Argentina), Island of the Hungry Ghosts [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Gabrielle Brady (co-produced by Germany, the UK, Australia and the USA), My Father is My Mother’s Brother [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Ukrainian director Vadym Ilkov, Srbenka [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nebojša Slijepčević
ficha de la película] by Croatian director Nebojsa Slijepcevic, and, of course, the award-winning (Golden Bear and winner of Best Debut Film at Berlin) Touch Me Not [+lee también:
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entrevista: Adina Pintilie
ficha de la película] by theRomanian director Adina Pintilie.

The ten films in competition for the Audience Award in the Grand Angle section take us on various journeys. Among these are the Swedish film Silvana [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Christina Tsiobanelis, Mika Gustafson and Olivia Kastebring (the portrait of a feminist hip hop artist), Golden Dawn Girls [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Havard Bustnes (co-produced by Norway, Denmark and Finland), also about the world of women, with a particular focus on the members of an extreme right ideology, Over the Limit [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Marta Prus (Poland, Finland and Germany) and Time Trial [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by theEnglish director Finlay Pretsell, both of which focus on the dark side of the sporting world. Other European films include To Be Continued [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by theLatvian director Ivars Seleckis and Happy Winter [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by the Italian director Giovanni Totaro, both of which deal with tragicomedies in their respective societies.

The presence of the French director Claire Simon, who will be the Maître du Réel, completes a daring and innovative programme of the festival’s 49^th edition.