Visions du Réel

Climber Adam Ondra, best in his field, is known for his fearless, record-breaking ascents. An intimate portrait explores his life beyond the headlines

The conflicts for water in Jordan’s deserts already happening today gives a pretaste of future disputes.

Ahmet, a champion boxer and professional soldier, starts taking acting lessons. On stage he comes face to face with his own internal battles.

Incredibly close and emotional, the film tells the stories of emancipation, love and struggle within a Turkish family.

This documentary-narrative film hybrid tells the story of two Sicilian underdogs in strong, neorealistic Cinemascope images.

The merciless fighting between militias in the region around Mount Lebanon ended in reprisals against civilians.

Taghi, an Afghan refugees living in Iran, faces the choice of staying in a country where he is not welcome or returning to a country he barely knows.

In Pahokee, a small town in the Florida Everglades, four teens experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school.

On the river Tetscha in the southern Urals, in the middle of nowhere between Europe and Asia, is the most radioactively contaminated area in the world

The director of a psychiatric clinic near Tehran gives patients the opportunity to marry each other, in a model project.

This moving portrait of a maternity hospital in Vienna provides a fascinating insight into the drama, pain, and beauty of being born into this world.

Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

Germany was once a torn country divided into East and West. Post-war architecture keeps the memory of this era alive.

The doc about the cult surrounding a Soviet physicist Boris Zolotov was awarded the ARTE documentary award.

During World War 2, 45,000 psychiatric patients died in French hospitals. Only one facility opposed the carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban.

A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.

The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the glacial ice of Colombia's highest mountain range - the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

A rough roller coaster ride with unique survivalists in a world full of challenges and beauty - from the sewers of Las Vergas to Mars.

Two shepherds and 800 sheep take on an extraordinary adventure full of challenges, in intimate contact with nature and the elements.

How can our society develop in the face of current social, economic and cultural challenges?

Three brothers embark on a search for traces left by their deceased brother, Jakob, who committed suicide.

Florence is trapped at an early age in a hotbed of cruelty. Sexually abused and raped within her own family, she runs away from home as a teenager.

The film is about love and hate, about right and wrong words. At its centre are Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, who met in post-war Vienna.

The testimonies of former Wehrmacht soldiers collected by Ruth Beckermann are still horrifying today.

A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.

Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.

“When the bombs fell, the first thing we did was run away. It was not until later that we realized we had not looked back.”

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CD’s, iPods, instruments?

A circus gives the street children of St. Petersburg hope and a chance for a better life.

Moussa has swapped his Kalashnikov for a guitar. The former freedom fighter is now a protest singer.

Dog fights and other blood sports are banned in most countries, but they still are practiced widely in alleyways and backyards around the world.

Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss mountains, 3 extraordinary vocal artists develop traditional yodelling into their own musical language.

An essayistic story about the last century of Soviet and post-Soviet electronic music - from Leon Theremin to Putin's Russia.

David Sievekind, young filmmaker, is in search of inspiration. He meets David Lynch, who assures him that the meditation TM is the key to success. But, ...

A fascinating document about the last Polish president not elected democratically.

THOSE WHO GO THOSE WHO STAY is Ruth Beckermann's meta-film - an analysis of her own cinematic works, a kind of progress report.

Two young immigrants from the Balkan are prepared to do almost anything to get a European passport, including a paid marriage.