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Swiss Documentary Festival Visions du Réel Unveils Selection of 165 Films, Including 88 World Premieres
Visions du Réel has unveiled its program, with 10 first films in the main competition, cementing its reputation as a springboard for emerging talent.
“It’s a great honor to receive Jia Zhang-Ke – he hasn’t been travelling since Covid, so it feels very special for us that he is coming, just like Lucrecia Martel last year – someone who is so rare – it is a joy to have directors who are seen less often,” she told Variety. Such is the case of Ukraine’s Maria Stoianova with “Fragments of Ice” (VdR-Rough Cut Lab, 2022), which mixes archival footage of her figure skater father in Soviet times with pictures he shot in the West, or Nelson Makengo’s “Rising up at Night” (Works in Progress, 2023), a nocturnal fresco of the people of Kinshasa in search of light, which had its world premiere at the Berlinale. Besides Chatrian in the main competition jury are Swiss filmmaker Carmen Jaquier (“Thunder,” Switzerland’s pick for the 2023 Oscars) and producer Tunisian Dora Bouchoucha (“Satin Rouge,” “Body,” “Hedi”).
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