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For the third consecutive year, Visions du Réel’s highest award went to a Swiss film: this evening in Nyon, Nicole Vögele received the Grand Prix 2024 in the international feature competition of the documentary festival.
The 41-year-old Swiss-German director and journalist was awarded for her film “The Landscape and the Fury”, which travels along the border between Bosnia and Croatia with bomb squads and migrant families.
It is a joy to see the work of a daring director, a Swiss one at that, who led to the creation of a great film rewarded, said Emilie Bujès, artistic director of Visions du Réel.
The jury, made up of producer Dora Bouchoucha, artistic director Carlo Chatrian and director Carmen Jaquier, explained that they were «struck by the approach of a film that conveys, touch after touch, the complexity of reality and allows spectators to question themselves about their place in the world.”
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