As Switzerland’s international documentary film festival Visions du Réel is about to wrap up, its artistic director Emilie Bujès, who’s been running the show since 2017 and was part of the selection committee for several years before that, toldShe was very pleased to note that many of the 163 screenings were packed – “even the retrospectives!” – and she was delighted to have two women filmmakers among her guests.
Maybe we need to rethink how festivals can contribute more. I truly believe – maybe it’s an ideological way of thinking – that people have forgotten how great it is to go to the cinema, and I hope festivals are contributing to change that: you attend a screening that’s packed, and you have this experience of watching films with people in a dark space without your phone, and it’s a really different experience.
For example, I want to watch Peter Mettler’s seven films in a cinema, I want to be in a room with people that fall asleep and eat and spend 10 hours together, I think this would be an amazing experience. Those are films that have a limited potential in terms of audience, so we should make sure that we reach them by all means possible.
Of course, we were not happy when they came closer to us [in March], but the profiles of our festivals are not the same. It’s more interesting for us to nurture this different identity. First, we are smaller, so basically Nyon becomes the festival: everybody hangs out together for those industry days, and it’s different to being in a big, cool city like Copenhagen.
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