The Argentine film The Prince of Nanawa / El príncipe de Nanawa by Clarisa Navas has won the top Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Film Competition at the 2025 edition of the Visions du Réel documentary film festival in Switzerland. The award includes a cash prize of CHF 20,000 (approximately $24,500 USD).
The second feature by Navas, following her acclaimed 2020 debut One in a Thousand, is a co-production between Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, and Germany. Set on a bustling footbridge separating Argentina and Paraguay—where people traffic all kinds of goods in a mix of Guarani and Spanish—the film begins when the director meets nine-year-old Angel. Struck by his expressiveness and panache, she follows him home. Over the course of ten years, they create a film together, during which Angel must make life-defining choices about his future.
Additionally, the Cuban film To the West, in Zapata / Al oeste, en Zapata, directed by Spaniard David Bim, received the Special Jury Award in the Burning Lights Competition, which comes with a cash prize of CHF 5,000 (approximately $6,125 USD). The film follows Landi and Mercedes, who live in Cuba’s Zapata Swamp, a protected biosphere reserve. To feed their ailing child, Landi must secretly hunt crocodiles, often leaving his wife and son behind for days. Amid growing social unrest and a global pandemic, To the West, in Zapata captures a family's quiet struggle to survive through cycles of separation and reunion.
The 56th edition of Visions du Réel took place April 4–13 in Nyon, Switzerland.
