Documentary on show at Visions du Réel festival
The best of documentary will be presented at the 13th Visions du Réel International Film Festival (April 20-26) in Nyon.
The 2007 programme features some 130 films, including over 20 selected in international competition. France dominates with Alain Cavalier’s Lieux saints, Stéphane Breton’s Le monde extérieur, Bruno Ulmer’s Welcome Europa along with two Belgian co-productions, Cabale à Kaboul by Dan Alexe and Scènes de chasse au sanglier by Claudio Pazienza.
German documentary also features, with Gerd Kroske’s Kehraus Wieder, Volker Koepp’s Söhne and Florian Opitz’s The Big Sellout.
Swiss documentaries that will screen include Pierre-Yves Borgeaud’s Return to Gorée, Stefan Schwietert’s Heimatklänge and Lucie et maintenant by Simone Fürbringer, Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel.
Co-production Sonic Mirror by Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki and Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio’s The Sami will be flying the Finnish flag.
Other documentaries that will take part include Elegia del volo by Italian director Fabio Tanzarella and State Legislature by renowned US filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
Besides its international competition, the event includes several sidebars: Regards Neufs (first films), Tendances (reference films in cinéma du réel), Helvétiques (national selection), Investigations (film journalism), Ateliers (retrospectives and meetings devoted this year to France’s Claire Simon and Indonesia’s Leonard Retel Helmric), Fictions du Réel (films that mix genres), Reprocessing Reality (a cross between plastic arts and documentary) and other Special Screenings, including a tribute by Pierre Maillard to Swiss director Alain Tanner entitled: “Alain Tanner, pas comme si, comme ça”.
(Translated from French)
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