“Another sucessful festival with a happy ending” according to VDR organisers

VDR 2012 Elastique Citrique

Photo above: This year Elastique Citrique, the Nyon circus school worked with Visions du Réel to provide entertainment for both film goers and the public. Visions du Réel 2012 ended with a closing ceremony at the Théatre de Marens on Friday night with film makers stepping up to the podium to receive prizes in the various [...]

Summing up Visions du Réel 2012

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Photo above: courtesy Visions du Réel from  the film “Sniegs” – “Snow Crazy”.  The Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon finishes today the 27th April with a prize giving ceremony at 19:30 at the Théatre de Marens in Nyon. The ceremony will then be followed by the screening of the film ”Vivan las Antipodas!” featuring the landscapes [...]

Film review of Tahrir – “On the ground, in your face, with the people as the revolution happens”

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  Photo above from Tahrir: courtesy Visions du Réel Film review from the Visions du Réel festival of  “Tahrir – Place de la Liberation” directed by Stefano Savona. Note: Although this film is not scheduled to be screened again in the official programme, a selection of prize winning films from the festival will be shown on Saturday 28 at the Salle [...]

Paléo tickets sell out in record time – Missed out on tickets?

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  Photo above – crowd at Paléo 2011.  There was a mad rush for Palèo tickets when they went on sale yesterday at midday and festival organisers announced that it took just 5.5 hours for all tickets to be sold-out. Concerts for the Sunday sold-out in 14 minutes, those for Thursday, Friday and Saturday in less than 45 [...]

Film tonight – “Reunion” – A fascinating insight into peace dialogue initiatives.

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“Reunion – Ti Ar Etter Krigen”  showing tonight at the Capitole 2, this film review is written by Suzy Nelson-Pollard. The international world premiere of « Reunion – ten years after the war » directed by Jon Haukeland, was shown yesterday at the Vision du Réel film festival and will be repeated again today at 18:00 at [...]

Forbidden Voices – A “must-see” film in Nyon

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The following film review of “Forbidden Voices” is written by Suzy Nelson-Pollard. Forbidden Voices will be shown on Monday 23rd April at 10:o0 am at the Salle Communale.   How much do you value the freedom of speech in your country? Are you free to post observations on Facebook, cries for change on Twitter, criticism on your blog? What does it [...]

“I’m not dead, only asleep” – film review from Visions d Réel 2012

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Here is the second film review  from Trish Thalman on the film  “No Estoy Muerto Solo Estoy Dormido”  (I’m not dead, only asleep) directed by J.S Lopez Maas. She says “this is an interesting insight into the Afro-Peruvians living in Peru and I encourage people to go and see it. It’s delightful with beautiful photography, wonderful people and opens a new perspective on [...]

” A compelling, historical and bittersweet film” by local filmmaker on Edgar Snow, U.S Journalist

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Photo above and below from  ”A Home Far Away” - courtesy Visions du Réel The second review on this site of a film to be shown at Visions du Réel 2012, has been written by Trish Thalman. Trish is originally from California and lives in Gland and has been reviewing films for this site for the previous two years. Read her personal footnote to [...]

Film festival starts today, free tickets for readers and first film review of “Virgin Tales”

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  The Visions du Réel Festival starts today in Nyon and we have two pairs of tickets up for grabs for film screenings for readers of this site.  Just email cnp at bluewin.ch with your name and telephone number by 22:00 on Friday 20th April.  Names will go into a hat and 2 lucky winners will be informed on Saturday a. m [...]

A multicoloured Paléo for 2012 from Sting, Bon Iver, the Cure, Garbage and Bloc Party to groups from the Middle East

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  Photo above of the Paléo Buddy App. A phone application with all the info on this year’s Paléo. “Paléo is going to be a multicoloured festival this year” revealed Daniel Rossellat in front of the multi coloured fesival poster at the 2012 Paléo press conference today the 17th April. This year the conference was held in the Globi Union [...]