An exceptional program for two weekends dedicated to cinema…
From October 17 to 25, 2009, the Juliette-Gréco hall will raise its curtain for the Carros cinematic meetings with the 4th edition of the Cinéalma Festival, the soul of the Mediterranean.
Year after year, Cinéalma has carved a niche in the heart of the Azurean Seventh Art. An increasingly large audience eagerly awaits this week of discoveries, emotions, and sharing at the start of each season.
This 2009 edition, organized by the Carros town hall, Les Coteaux d’Azur, and the associations Festival TransMéditerranée and CinéActions, is very proud to have as patrons two women, talented actresses, charismatic figures of our Mediterranean: Ronit Elkabetz, the Israeli, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta, the Sicilian. Fanny Ardant, who has just confirmed with Cendres et Sang that she is also a great in directing, will honor us with her presence.
The 2009 program, demanding and diverse, offers the public the opportunity to discover new and quality films that, due to a lack of screens, often go unnoticed: more than twenty films from countries in the South and North of the Mediterranean and their migrations (Algeria, Spain, France, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Tunisia).
Many guests, filmmakers, actors and actresses, specialists, will meet the public, a true highlight of this festival. The spotlight will be on the cinemas of the Maghreb and the Near East, while several sessions will be dedicated to Italy, and particularly Sicily.
The films will be shown mainly during two long consecutive weekends (Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th / from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th October), a novelty in this event where young and old alike can find the typical “made in Cinéalma” atmosphere with its settings (including an exhibition of large-format paintings signed by André Marzuk), its barbecue, its school, college, and senior sessions, and the audience’s favorites awards at the closing!
Always supportive, Cinéalma will donate a symbolic participation of 1 euro per entry to the Farah Group Center, a network of daycares and kindergartens in the West Bank.
