The future of cinema on both sides of the screen
The young audience is king at the festival Premiers Plans of Angers and the screenings are booked out, thanks to the enthusiasm of the young adolescents who make up the entire audiences. Young European cinema is on show with features in competition and the festival presents " features, European shorts, French shorts, student films, it’s very rich" the President of the Jury Radu Mihaileanu told Cineuropa. On the Jury six years ago, the director of Va, vis et deviens [+see also:
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As for the features in competition, she noted : "a tendency to talk about identities, immigration. I think these are problems for the world today and so interest the filmmaker, one can’t ignore it. And I am delighted that young filmmakers are taking them on. The cinema is, for me, a moral art. The positioning of the camera is a delicacy or indelicacy. There is a moment when we can’t have a close-up since it violates the intimacy of the character, or the capacity to understand the spectator". "Young filmmakers are not scatterbrained " Claude-Eric Poiroux, the director of the festival once said.
"I was a film professor. We started intense work with the schools, the foundation of Premiers Plans. Lots of people want to bring students. The desire just has to be activated. Once people saw we were choosing quality films, they were moved, surprised, more surprised and delighted than if they had watched a formula film. And that marks people." For the director of Europa Cinéma, which Claude-Eric Poiroux defines as "the circulation of films and the formation of audiences", the education of the image is " precisely the challenge for European cinema". And the political absence at a European level seems to him "scandalous" : The European commissioners talk about the education of the image, but it doesn’t exist ! I don’t think they even know the challenge exists. Cinema’s an art after all ! "
(Translated from French)
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