Ciné-Fête, a committed festival

“Ghosts” by Jonathan Millet. With Adam Bessa, Tawfeek Barhom, Julia Franz Richter, 2024. Hamid is a member of a secret organization tracking Syrian war criminals hiding in Europe. His quest leads him to Strasbourg on the trail of his former tormentor.

Based on true events.

“Dissidente” by Pier-Philippe Chevigny. With Ariane Castellanos, Marc-André Grondin, Nelson Coronado. 2024. In Richelieu, an industrial city in Quebec, Ariane is hired as a translator in a factory. She soon becomes aware of the deplorable working conditions imposed on Guatemalan workers. Torn, she undertakes at her own risk a daily resistance against the exploitation to which they are subjected.

“Varian Fry, visas for freedom” by Mathieu Verdeil.

This film traces the incredible destiny of American journalist Varian Fry, a little-known Righteous Among the Nations sent to Marseille during the Second World War with a list of over 200 artists, intellectuals, Jews and anti-Nazis to help them escape the Nazi regime. But how did this shadowy hero finally manage to save over 2,500 people from the Vichy regime, on their way from Marseille, which had become his base camp?

“Je suis été” by Catherine Monin Editions Quartett, June 2024.

“I’m leaning yes. I could tumble at any moment, yes, with all my being, yes. But I’m holding on, on the ridges I’m holding on. I’m at the peak of age, on the peak of the circumflex, at the very top. I don’t have life ahead of me see, but all around… There’s only a little room at the top. No sooner do you stumble there than you can break a pass, no sooner do you dance there than the air runs out, no sooner an echo than you’re off in an avalanche.”