Visions du Réel
Visions du Réel is one of the most important international documentary film festivals . It takes place in Nyon in Switzerland and is the third largest film festival in the country and the largest in western Switzerland .
Originally founded in 1969, it has been held annually in April in its current form since 1995. In 2009, 40 years of “Documentaries in Nyon” and 15 years of Visions du Réel were celebrated.
history
In 1969 Moritz de Hadeln and his wife Erika de Hadeln founded the Nyon documentary film festival in Switzerland. Moritz de Hadeln was in charge of the festival until 1979 and Erika de Hadeln until 1994.
The film critic Jean Perret and his wife Gabriela Bussmann directed the festival from 1995 to 2010. They abolished the term documentary film in the festival program because it no longer does justice to today's diversity of forms in this genre and replaced it with the broader title Visions du Réel. In addition to the classic documentaries, other ways of expressing the cinema of reality are also represented at the film festival.
In 2010 - for the last time under the resigning festival management - over 160 films were shown. The Italian journalist and film critic Luciano Barisone has been running the festival since 2011 . He announced in August 2016 that he would be leaving after the 2017 edition.
In 2012, 110 films from 47 countries were shown. 25,000 paying guests were counted - 4,000 more than in the previous year. In 2016, 39,000 viewers were recorded.
Prices
In the international competition, the following three prizes - out of a total of 15 awarded - are the highest endowed:
- Swiss Post Grand Prix - Visions du Réel (CHF 20,000)
- SRG SSR idée suisse award (CHF 10,000)
- Audience award of the city of Nyon (CHF 10,000)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pierre François Besson: Images selected from millions. Swissinfo , April 23, 2009, accessed on January 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Susanne Brunner: Review of 16 years of “Visions du Réel”. Talk of the day. (No longer available online.) DRS 4 News , April 15, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 18, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Luciano Barisone is leaving Visions du Réel after 2017 , SWI swissinfo.ch, 7 August 2016
- ^ "Dutch autism documentary honored" - The number of visitors to the documentary film festival Visions du Réel is increasing again . NZZ Online, April 27, 2012.
