The 7th Cinéalma festival in Carros concludes with a very positive outcome: nearly 5,000 spectators including about 1,000 students.
Friendliness is always present and praised by both invited directors and spectators, with debates and exchanges continuing over tea or couscous.
As every year, the programming was varied, although there was a particular focus on Tunisia to reach out to this country in the midst of upheaval. The debate organized on culture and the Arab Spring informed us of the persistent difficulties and even the dangers that loom and spill over onto our festival attendance.
The public was also able to converse via the Internet with directors who could not be present at the festival, a new, more “eco-friendly” way of exchanging.
The word from Cathy Fafin, president of the Cinéaction association, which organizes the festival: “The festival extends through the various partners: the exhibition at the Carros International Center for Contemporary Art where you can witness the disappearance of the Virgin after her appearance in the film ‘The Virgin, the Copt and Me’ (audience award); also, you can find some of the films you missed in the shelves of the A. Verdet media library. For memory, cinema continues two Sundays per month with DK production and finally activities around cinema offered by our association: café-ciné, short film production, Cinémator next March, etc. I say therefore…see you very soon.”
