Raphaël Pillosio’s film “Les Mots qu’elles eurent un jour (The Words Women Spoke One Day)”, presented in competition during Cinéma du réel 2024, Cnap Award for French film and Special mention of the Ciné+ Young Jury Award, is released in theatres in France on Wednesday 11 June 2025. Distributor: JHR Films
Alexe Poukine’s film “Sauve qui peut”, presented in competition during the 2024 edition of Cinéma du réel, and awarded the Prix des Jeunes – Ciné+ and a special mention of the Prix des Bibliothèques, is released in French cinemas on Wednesday June 4, 2025. Distributor: Singularis Films
Côté Court Film Festival, Pantin, France, June 2025, programmes 4 films presented as part of the last editions of Cinéma du réel:
Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, United Kingdom, June 2025, programmes two films presented as part of Cinéma du réel 2025:
Beldocs Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, May 2025, programmes 7 films presented as part of Cinéma du réel 2025:
Déni Oumar Pitsaev’s film “Imago”, presented as part of ParisDOC’s Works-in-progress, Cinéma du réel 2025, was programmed at the Semaine de la Critique, Festival de Cannes 2025, where it won the Prix French Touch du Jury. It also won the Œil d’or Prix du documentaire Cannes 2025 awarded by Scam.
Documenta Madrid Film Festival, Spain, May 2025, programmes 4 films presented as part of Cinéma du réel 2025:
It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa on April 20, 2025. The author of some twenty masterful experimental films, and a professor at Binghamton University, United States, Tomonari Nishikawa was at Cinéma du Réel in March 2024 to present the last of them, Light, Noise, Smoke and …
