The 2017 edition of the Swiss film festival Visions du Réel in the city of Nyon was the last under the direction of Luciano Barisone. This year, the festival has once again shown that it has as one of its main tasks to give marginalized people, often helpless and left to themselves, an opportunity to be seen and respected. Individuals torn apart from theirs, with limited opportunities for communication and social well-being and ignored by the outside world, are offered an international platform where they can confirm their existence. This year it was Ziad Kalthoum's remarkable documentary Taste of Cement who won the award for best feature length documentary.
Intimate and magnificent. Taste of Cement is an audiovisual masterpiece that elegantly incorporates all these marginalized states. Talal Khoury's camera lingers on silent, motionless, introverted,. . .
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