Relocated since last year to the heart of the Latin Quarter in the Parisian theatres of L'Arlequin, Reflet Médicis and Saint-André des Arts, while the Centre Pompidou is being refurbished, the Cinéma du réel International Documentary Film Festival will hold its 48th edition from 21 to 28 March, offering a packed and diverse programme in line with the demanding editorial policy championed by general delegate and artistic director Catherine Bizern.

Thirty-seven films (including 16 feature films) will be screened in competition, including 20 world premieres, three international premieres and 14 French premieres. A jury has been assembled to judge the feature films, comprising Spanish filmmaker Jose Luis Guerín, his Congolese counterpart Alain Kassanda, French composer Félicia Atkinson, British-Japanese programmer Julian Ross (who works in Rotterdam, among other places) and American-French-Iranian filmmaker and visual artist Bani Khoshnoudi.

Among the feature films in competition, notable examples include Matter of Britain by English director Peter Treherne and London [+lee también:
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Also featured are five 100% French feature films: Blind Song by Stefano Canapa and Natacha Muslera, Back before 3 p.m. by Gaël Lépingle, I Crossed the Desert With a Gun in Hand by Laurence Garret, The Waterline by Olivier Zabat and From Here to the Apple Tree by Cyprien Ponson.

​​The pre-screenings section features films that were well received in Venice (Landmarks [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lucrecia Martel
ficha de la película] by Lucrecia Martel, which will pre-open the festival on 20 March – the Argentine filmmaker will meet the Parisian public on 27 March – and Remake by Ross McElwee), Berlin (Dao [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Ben Rivers), Sundance (To Hold a Mountain [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić) and San Sebastián (In-I in Motion by Juliette Binoche, who will be present at the screening on 28 March), as well as Eberhard as Seen by Amit Dutta, The Vanishing Point by Bani Khoshnoudi and Belleville Beats by Hugo Sobelman.

Cinéma du réel will also pay tribute to the late Frederick Wiseman and dedicate Focus sections to Scottish filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler and Palestinian director and artist Jumana Manna (who, in addition to her own work, will also present a selection of films about the daily lives of her compatriots). Not to mention the 13 short films in the First window programme, as well as the Popular front(s), Cinema is ours and Ecofeminism sections.

Finally, as part of the 13th edition of ParisDOC, the festival's professional section, Works-in-Progress will present six films in editing or post-production Ioanis Nuguet, Mahsa Karampour, Stéphanie Roland, Erik Nuding, Juan Manuel Sepúlveda and the duo Sara Rastegar - Simone Pozzi), nine projects in development on the First Contact menu, round tables at the Public Forum focusing on the subject of censorship, and Classic Documentary Film Rendez-vous.