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The Swiss festival dedicated to non-fiction films runs from April 4 to 13 in Nyon.
View Films by Strand:
- Burning Lights Competition
- Cláudia Varejão - Atelier
- Corneliu Porumboiu - Special Guest
- Highlights
- International Feature Film Competition
- Raoul Peck - Guest Of Honour
- Special Screenings
- Wide Angle
View previous years coverage of the Visions du Réel festival:
Visions du Réel Latest Reviews

Subject to depression and social anxiety, Paul has found refuge in serving women who invite him to clean their homes. By sharing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he combats loneliness and takes it one day at a time.

A filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.

A documentarian revisits Gaza where she encounters a young athlete leading her to embark on a journey through Gaza's devastated landscape.

Refugee women living in Portugal tell their stories.

A girl begins to question the world around her through her friendship with her gay best friend.

2013. A 15-year-old gymnast is torn between Switzerland - where she is training for the European Championship in preparation for the Olympics - and Ukraine, where her mother is a journalist, reporting on Euromaidan unrest.

Film noir sees a corrupt cop learn a whistling language to beat detection while trying to double-cross the mob.

Documentary about ex-footballer Laurentiu Ginghina's opinions on the game.

Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark on a brave, fraught journey across state lines to New York City.

Essay film based on James Baldwin's writing about the story of race in modern America.
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