The five day festival took place for the first time on April 27th – May 1st, 2017 at the historic Kino BABYLON in the Mitte district of Berlin. The program offered a selection of 9 first or second feature films which have been presented at the most prestigious festivals all around the world and have yet never screened in Berlin. The first edition of Visionär focused on the following countries: Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Georgia, Iran, Italy, Poland, South Korea, The Netherlands.