WAITING FOR «Visions du Réel»

Emilie Bujès, Artistic Director: "This year, audiences will have the opportunity to delve into three unique and bold styles of filmmaking. The Guest of Honour for 2023, Lucrecia Martel, who until recently had made a name for herself in fiction, represents our artistic positioning that enjoys investigating the porous nature of the boundaries between genres. It will also be wonderful to have Céline Sciamma here to present her with the Award. The same goes for Alice Rohrwacher, who we have been hoping to have at the Festival for years and who is sure to win over the audience with a filmography coloured by magical realism. Together, these three women clearly represent an exciting and enthusiastic vision of contemporary filmmaking. Finally, it is so relevant and exciting to welcome Swiss director Jean-Stéphane Bron, who is an essential figure in the Swiss film industry and international non-fiction making."

The 2023 programme includes wide range of formats and genres. The 131 films selected from the 3,000 entries.

Emilie Bujès continues: "In terms of the countries represented, the 2023 International Feature Film Competition is particularly interesting and open, with films coming notably from Venezuela, Burkina Faso, South Korea and Thailand, whilst in the Burning Lights International Competition there are films from Costa Rica, Iran and China, amongst other countries…Visions du Réel aims to achieve a selection made up of personal and original films that are one of a kind, to go off the beaten track, but also to offer cinematographic colours and vocabularies that are as varied as possible, to embrace the world and filmmaking in all its diversity and complexity."