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Sauve qui peut – sortie nationale

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

Sheffield DocFest 2025

Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, United Kingdom, June 2025, programmes two films presented as part of Cinéma du réel 2025:

Beldocs festival 2025

Beldocs Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, May 2025, programmes 7 films presented as part of Cinéma du réel 2025:

“Imago” awarded at Cannes Film Festival 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.

Death of Tomonari Nishikawa

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 …

First Assessment – 47th Cinéma du réel – March 2025

The 47th edition of Cinéma du réel recorded a total of 18,080 viewers who attended 141 screenings over the eight days of the festival. The average number of spectators per screening was 128. This year we programmed 118 different films and projects, including 37 films in competition. As a reminder, in 2024 the festival recorded …

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