VdR–Industry Talks

In 2025, we invite you to expand your mind with a series of talks and masterclasses for filmmakers, producers and cinephiles alike. Open to all accreditation levels.

VdR–Industry Opening Talk: Masterclass With Asif Kapadia

VdR–Industry Talk: In Cinemas & Beyond – Documentary Distribution in Switzerland

VdR–Industry Talk: Self Distribution? You’ve Got This!

VdR–Industry Talk: Go West! Demystifying the North American Documentary Film Distribution Market

VdR–Industry Talk: Festival Pathways – Embracing the Unconventional

VdR–Industry Talk: Co-producing with France

VdR–Industry Talk: Welcome to the Exhibition

VdR–Industry Talk: France, the Holy Grail of Distribution?

Morning Talks 2025

Open to all, free-entry. See the Morning Talks on the 2025 schedule

Morning Talk 1: In pursuit of a collective character

Morning Talk 2: Scripting Reality or Real-life Scenarios

Morning Talk 3: Telling the minority realities against the ‘narratives’ of power

Morning Talk 4: New approaches to scientific realities

Morning Talk 5: « A Thousand Memories » : when cinema plays with time