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Cover-Up will open the festival
The 57th edition of the festival runs from April 17 to 26. Special guests at this year's festival are Kelly Reichardt, Laura Poitras, Sergei Loznitsa and Meriem Bennani. The festival will open with Poitras' lastest film Cover Up.
View Films by Strand:
- Borderlight
- Burning Lights Competition
- Doc Alliance Selection
- Grand Angle
- Guest Of Honour Kelly Reichardt
- Highlights
- International Feature Film Competition
- Special Guest Sergei Loznitsa
- Special Screenings
View previous years coverage of the Visions du Réel festival:
Visions du Réel Latest Reviews
Observes a man torn between criminal heritage, familial duty and a search for moral clarity.
After envisioning a near future in which climate change disrupts lives and relationships in Don’t Let the Sun, Zünd seeks out that same dystopia in the real world.
Filmed during one night in July 2025 by forty filmmakers and hundreds of citizens, The Illusion of a Quiet Night paints a vast collective portrait of war-torn Ukraine.
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape.
In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.
In a quiet corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plots his first major heist. But when things go south, his life is turned upside down.
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Life in Ukraine under the shadow of war.
A forensic reconstruction of the trial of 15 people which took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators.
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