Visions du Réel - 54th edition opens!
- cinenigma1
- Apr 22, 2023
- 1 min read

The opening ceremony gathered a lot of professionals and viewers. On the screen - the world premiere of «Nightwatchers», a nocturnal account
of the daily life of the volunteers who help migrants at the tension-filled French-Italian border. The 54th edition will present 163 films – including 82 world premieres – and welcome more than 300 guests.
The opening weekend will focus on Swiss production, with the launch of the National Competition and the retrospective, dedicated to filmmaker Jean-Stéphane Bron.
Visions du Réel will welcome Italian director Alice Rohrwacher as a special guest, whose next film – «La Chimera» – will compete for the Palme d'Or at the next edition of the Cannes Film Festival. In addition to the ten-day retrospective, Alice Rohrwacher will give a Masterclass on Saturday 22 April, discussing her hybrid, dreamlike work with her audience.
Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, 2023 Guest of Honour, and Swiss director Jean-Stéphane Bron – who the 2023 Atelier is dedicated to – will also be holding masterclasses, on Tuesday 25 and Thursday 27 April respectively.
The National Competition takes centre stage at the opening weekend.
The festival's ten-day run will be punctuated by the National Competition and its diverse range of films. Humanity quests, utopias and dystopias, dramatic reportages, intimate stories, imaginative journeys, road movies.
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