By Ben Croll After deciding to launch their 2020 edition online, the organizers of Visions du Réel had one month to create a new paradigm.
They weren’t starting from scratch, of course; the selection was already locked, and the necessary steps were clear enough. But all the while, the organizers seized the opportunity to rethink a few elements.
Without a printed catalogue or the logistical constraints of fixed screening times, the organizers thought of different ways to present the selected titles. “Every year, you hear from the public that they open the program and don’t know where to start,” says artistic director Emilie Bujès. “This year we thought we could create thematic groupings to offer a new way in.” And so the festival site
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