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Visions du Réel

Alex Heeney / December 3, 2021

‘A story about finding home’: Jonas Poher Rasmussen on Flee

Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Flee, the multi-award-winning animated documentary, is now in US cinemas. Here’s why animation was the best way to tell this …

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Alex Heeney / May 13, 2021

Visions du Réel 2021 spotlights nonfiction films pushing the form forward

The 2021 Visions du Réel film festival featured boundary-pushing nonfiction films, with highlights including Sheltered and Les Guérisseurs. Read our Visions …

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Alex Heeney / May 13, 2021

Visions du Réel Review: Pauline Julier’s documentary Way Beyond goes inside CERN

Pauline Julier’s 60-minute documentary Way Beyond takes us inside CERN to follow the planning process for the Future Circular Collider. Read all of our …

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Alex Heeney / May 12, 2021

Visions du Réel Review: Captains of Za’atari

Ali El-Arabi’s Captains of Za’atari is a story of friendship and soccer between two Syrian refugees in Jordan. Read all of our Visions du Réel …

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Alex Heeney / May 12, 2021

Tomasz Wolski’s documentary 1970 mixes animation and archival

In his new documentary, 1970, Tomasz Wolski uses stop-motion animation and archival footage to illuminate telephone conversations between top communist …

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Alex Heeney / May 11, 2021

Visions du Réel Review: My Place is Here is an inside look at COVID-19 in an Italian hospital

Set in March 2020, Italy, Michele Aiello's My Place is Here offers a slice of life inside a hospital right after the worst stage of the pandemic. One …

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