He spent his life with his head in the stars, observing galaxies to understand how the universe works. But at 85, astrophysicist Hubert Reeves is worried. Will man continue to damage this planet to the point of making it uninhabitable? He alerts us through a documentary La Terre vue du cœur, directed by Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, which has just been released on French, Canadian, Belgian and Swiss screens. (Rebroadcast from 07/12/2018)
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Cinema reflects society. It is its echo, vibration, even premonition. Louis-Julien Petit, the director of invisible, who knew how to combine successful popular comedies and social issues, understood this well. While his new feature film Squad released in theaters on March 23, he has decided to create with Camille Carteret, lawyer and film enthusiast, and Mathieu Petit Bonnefond, communication specialist, a new cinematographic meeting aimed at promoting committed cinema. The Tomorrow Film Festival will be held every year in Vierzon (Cher) as part of Ciné Lumière and will take place in 2022 from June 2 to 5.
Nine French films will be selected without distinction of production or distribution format and will illustrate the major challenges of our society (integration, fight once morest social and sexual discrimination, climate change). “While the subjects are vast, we made it a point of honor that the festival made no gender distinction, ExplainMathieu Petit Bonnefond, one of the organizers. The programming is completely decompartmentalized: we are open to feature-length fiction films, from the world of television, to cinema, via that of platforms. »
At the end of three days of competition, a jury will award six grand prizes including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, and Audience.
Strengthen civic awareness
Seeing the films and above all discussing them: this is what the three creators of this new festival are particularly keen on. “We want to create debate at the end of the films with the film crews, put subjects on the table to build a moment of exchange, mix everything in an intelligent way while strengthening citizen awareness”, continues Mathieu Petit Bonnefond. The importance given to enlightened discussions, a necessary counterpoint in an era prone to futile controversies, is in the vein of the cinema of Louis-Julien Petit.
In Discount(2015), his first feature film, the director depicted the difficult working conditions of employees of this type of sign, unscrupulous and underpaid subjugated, who decided to create a business with the unsold products of their store. In The Invisibles (2018), it explored the daily life of a reception center for homeless women condemned to close. His next movie Squad, is the portrait of a woman who dreams of running her own restaurant but finds herself forced to accept a job as a canteen in a hostel for young migrants.
Obviously, the cinema that will be put forward in this festival will be that “who wants to make things happen” and the one, humanist, which seeks to highlight professions and employees of which we speak only too little.Master classes in the presence of professionals from the audiovisual industry and a large casting open to all, organized in partnership with Arda (Association of artistic distribution managers) will also be on the program. Undoubtedly, this Film Festival of tomorrow will be that of the given word.
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School bullying claims hundreds of minor victims every year. A film, released in theaters this week in France, literally puts the viewer in the place of the helpless witness. It is a first Belgian feature film, selected at the last Cannes festival. His title : A world.
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The Franco-Chinese director Ye Ye presents her documentary, selected by the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2021, “H6, the people’s hospital”. Through the fates of 5 Chinese families in one of Shanghai’s largest hospitals, the film paints a portrait of China between traditional culture and modernity. The film will be released in French theaters on February 2, 2022.
It is a documentary full of pain and suffering, but also with solidarity, hope and humor. A film full of humanity above all which, through the crossed destinies of a handful of characters, paints a portrait of contemporary China.
There is this peasant couple whose husband broke his spine when he fell from a tree; this little girl whose hand was broken by a bus while she was playing in the street; this husband who comes every day to his wife’s bedside and who wonders if she still recognizes him. There is this middle-aged man who limps with his broken knee, but who continues to advance at all costs at his own pace. Or this young girl victim of a car accident, who does not know that her mother died while her father instills great waves of optimism in her by smiling at her, laughing and even singing poetic and full of hope.
In her first documentary for the cinema, the Franco-Chinese director Ye Ye takes us to the heart of Shanghai Number 6 Hospital. “H6, the people’s hospital”, will be Wednesday February 2, 2022 on French screens.
On the menu of this gourmet café :
– Amélie Beaucour met the filmmakers Diana Gaye and Valerie Osouf. The two directors and friends have chosen 125 favorite films screened since January 2022 and until the end of February 2022 at the Forum des images, in the Halles district, to discover the richness and diversity of the 7th African art.
– Direction Normandy with Isabelle Chenu to discover an extraordinary collection “Circuses and acrobats”. spouses Jeanne-Yvonne and Gérard Borg show some of their treasures in 4 exhibitions in Rouen and the surrounding area. Circus treasures collected from all over the world for more than 50 years.
– Marjorie Bertin makes us listen to the new album “Pwanga” by Lucia de Carvalho, an alchemist in love with fusions and world music, born in Luanda.