Argentinian filmmaker Clarisa Navas’ The Prince Of Nanawa was awarded the €21,000 grand jury prize on the Swiss documentary pageant Visions du Reel, whereas Irainian director Bani Koshnoudi’s The Vanishing Level gained the highest prize within the Burning Lights competitors.
Navas’ documentary follows a boy residing on the Paraguayan border throughout 10 years. The jury mentioned the movie used “confidence and humility” to straddle “autofiction, fiction and non-fiction resisting the grasp’s narrative”.
Within the Burning Lights competitors, Iranian filmmaker Koshnoudi gained the €10,500 jury prize for The Vanishing Level which sees a household break its silence on the execution of their cousin in 1988. The jury known as the movie “a daring and radical exploration of shared ache and collective resistance”.
Additional winners included Les Vies d’Andrès which gained the €16,000 jury prize within the nationwide competitors. Directed by Baptiste Janon and Belgian filmmaker Rémi Pons, the movie follows the lives of 4 truck drivers.
Visions du Reel inventive director Emilie Bujes mentioned: “The 154 movies introduced on the 2025 Competition provide a myriad prisms by means of which to discover modern documentary cinema and to find daring, private, and singular cinematic voices.
“I’m delighted to see that this 12 months’s awards mirror this ambition, notably together with movies created over prolonged durations of time.”
Visions du Reel winners 2025
Worldwide competitors
Grand jury prize
The Prince Of Nanawa, dir. Clarisa Navas
Particular jury prize
To Use A Mountain, dir. Casey Carter
Particular point out
Anamocot, dir. Marie Voignier
Burning Lights competitors
Jury prize
The Vanishing Level, dir. Bani Khoshnoudi
Particular jury award
To The West In Zapata, dir. David Bim
Particular point out
Fierté nationale: de Jéricho vers Gaza, dir, Sven Augustijnen
Nationwide competitors
Jury prize
Les Vies d’Andrès, dirs. Baptiste Janon and Rémi Pons
Particular jury award
Sediments, dir. Laura Coppens
Particular point out
Toute Ma Vie, dir. Matias Carlier