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Visions du Réel · 2026

Visions du Réel 2026

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Bouchra

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This isn’t about rejection but about navigating the difficulties full acceptance bring.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
A New York-based filmmaker writes an autobiographical script about a fictional double, while also appearing in animated form as a coyote moving through a city of furry creatures.

(Country: Italy, Morocco, US; Year: 2025; Director: Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani; Writer: Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani; Stars: Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani)

Full review See: Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki on making animation Bouchra

Dao

A wedding in Paris and a ceremony in Guinea-Bissau are intertwined in this consideration of family and heritage.

(Country: France, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal; Year: 2026; Director: Alain Gomis; Writer: Alain Gomis; Stars: Katy Correa, Katy Correa, D'Johé Kouadio, Samir Guesmi, Mike Etienne, Nicolas Gomis, Fara Baco)

I Want Her Dead (Il quieto vivere)

A darkly comic and emotionally charged tale of a Southern Italian family on the verge of implosion.

(Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Gianluca Matarrese)

Tristan Forever

For 30 years, a doctor from Paris has maintained a friendship with a fisherman on Tristan da Cunha, the most isolated inhabited island in the world. Now he travels back one more time, with the plan to stay there for good.

(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Tobias Nölle)