For 2021, Cinéma du réel is proposing a singular, unifying, and enhanced form for this year’s one festival: CANALRÉEL. The festival will hold its 43rd edition from 12 to 21 March 2021. Now, its International and French competitions have announced their selections, including over 20 combined world premieres.

International Selection

• A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (dir. Shengze Zhu) – USA
• Armour (dir. Sandro Aguilar) – Portugal, Canada
• Citadel (dir. John Smith) – United Kingdom
• earthearthearth (dir. Daïchi Saïto) – Canada
• End of the Season (dir. Jason Evans) – USA *European Premiere (EP)
• Faraway My Shadow Wandered (dir. Liao Jiekai & Sudhee Liao) – Singapore, Japan *International Premiere (IP)
• Feast (dir. Tim Leyendekker) – Netherlands *IP
• Figure Minus Fact (dir. Mary Helena Clark) – USA
• The Filmmaker’s House (dir. Marc Isaacs) – United Kingdom
• Flowers Blooming in our Throats (dir. Eva Giolo) – Belgium, Italy
• FREIZEIT or: the opposite of doing nothing (FREIZEIT oder: das gegenteil von nichtstun) (dir. Caroline Pitzen) – Germany *IP
• The I and S of Lives (dir. Kevin Jerome Everson) – USA *World Premiere (WP)
• The Inheritance (dir. Ephraim Asili) – USA *EP
• Landscapes of Resistance (Pejzazi otpora) (dir. Marta Popivoda) – Serbia, Germany, France
• Odoriko (dir. Yoichiro Okutani) – Japan
• Patrick (dir. Luke Fowler) – United Kingdom *IP
• Delphine’s Prayers (Les Prières de Delphine) (dir. Rosine Mbakam) – Belgium, Cameroon *WP
• Rock Bottom Riser (dir. Fern Silva) – USA
• Sol de Campinas (dir. Jessica Sarah Rinland) – Argentina, Unted Kingdom
• Taming the Garden (dir. Salomé Jashi) – Georgia, Germany
• Tellurian Drama (dir. Riar Rizaldi) – Indonesia

French Selection

• Avant que le ciel n’apparaisse (dir. Denis Gheerbrant) – France
• Baleh-Baleh (dir. Pascale Bodet) – France
• Corps Samples (dir. Astrid de la Chapelle) – France
• Dear Hacker (dir. Alice Lenay) – France
• The Inventory Will Be Drawn up at 11 a.m. in the Presence of the Poet’s Wife (dir. Martin Verdet) – France
• A Floating World (dir. Jean-Claude Rousseau) – France
• Foedora (dir. Judith Abensour) – France
• Garage, Engines and Men (dir. Claire Simon) – France
• Glow of the Hyenas (dir. Nicolas Matos Ichaso) – France
• Hairy Heart (dir. Skander Mestiri) – France
• He Carries Evil Under His Armpit (dir. Marie Ward) – France
• Living with Imperfection (dir. Antoine Polin) – France
• Longing for an island (dir. Laetitia Farkas) – France
• Kindertotenlieder (dir. Virgil Vernier) – France
• A Memory of Archives (dir. Christophe Bisson) – France
• Nightvision (dir. Clara Claus) – France
• Random Patrol (dir. Yohan Guignard) – France
• Saxifrages, quatre nuits blanches (dir. Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval) – France
• Silabario (dir. Marine de Contes) – France
• Venice Beach, CA (dir. Marion Naccache) – France