Five of the winning films screened throughout the day on Saturday 29th April in Nyon The closing ceremony of Visions du Réel took place tonight, Friday the 28th April. The winners of the prizes in the various film categories were announced and the festival has officially come to a close. However, if any readers missed the opportunity to […]
The People of Pine Ridge, South Dakota – Film Thursday 27th April 2017
When director Dan Girmus chose to make a documentary about the people of Pine Ridge in South Dakota, he was determined not to go down the clichéd route by focussing purely on the fact that Pine Ridge (one of the 326 territories returned to the Native American communities in the United States), is also known as one of […]
Recording the Sonic Footprint of the Rainforest – Film – Dusk Chorus
There was a long round of well-deserved applause in the Capitole cinema in Nyon on Tuesday night after the world premiere screening of the film Dusk Chorus – Based on Fragments of Extinction, produced by Alessandro D’Emilia and Nika Saravanja. This film was a “coup de coeur” for the Living in Nyon editor and was also much […]
China’s Van Goghs – Reproducing famous art works – Film Thursday 27th in Nyon
China’s Van Goghs – Screening on Thursday 27th April at the Théâtre de Marens in Nyon at 18:30 In 1989 in the village of Dafen in China there were 20 painters/workers copying oil paintings and making reproductions of famous artworks. Today there are over 10,000. One of these painters is Xiaoyong Zhao who specialises in […]
Life as a young female car mechanic in Burkina Faso – Film Ouaga Girls
Ouaga Girls – directed by Theresa Traore Dahlberg, screening Wednesday 26th at 19:00 at the Théâtre de Marens in Nyon and Thursday 27th at 20:30 at the Théâtre de Grand Champ in Gland. Every year the Visions du Réel documentary film festival brings the world to Nyon and in this documentary, the viewer is transported to the […]
