Emilie Bujès to Step Down as Artistic Director of Documentary Film Festival Visions du Réel

She will then take over as director of Geneva Intl. Film Festival on Aug. 1, which will allow her to focus more on fiction films and series.

Bujès, who previously served as co-director and head of programming and industry for Visions du Réel, has served across nine editions of the festival. “My years with the Visions du Réel team, first as a member of the selection committee and then as artistic director, have been filled with challenges, encounters, cinematic discoveries, and joys—artistic, professional and personal,” she said.

Philippe Bischof, chairman of the foundation board of Visions du Réel, said, “We are extremely grateful for everything Emilie has brought to the festival. We very much look forward to celebrating this upcoming edition of the festival with her, which promises to be particularly compelling, and to bringing this significant chapter in the history of Visions du Réel to a close together.

“Her visionary, committed and bold work has laid a sound and solid foundation on which we can build to continue developing the festival and further enhance its reputation in the years to come. I would like to thank her for her unfailing dedication and wish her every success and happiness in her future projects.”

The position of director will shortly be advertised.