Common thread - Our futures

Our futures: youth and global challenges

Through the festival's common thread, each year we invite a theme that runs through the entire edition, both in our programming and in our professional events. It's the way we've found to bring social issues to the festival, through the prism of film.

After looking at gender equality in cinema, the ecological transition and mental health last year, this year we'll be looking at the relationship that young people have with the future and its challenges.

We're delighted to welcome Salomé Saqué, who will accompany us throughout our reflections on this subject and throughout the festival. Salomé Saqué is a journalist specialising in youth issues, and the author of an investigative book on the subject entitled Sois jeune et tais-toi (Be Young and Be Quiet). She heads up the economics department at Blast, and works regularly with France Culture and France Inter.

She will be present at various Festival events:

- 14 December at 11.00 AM
   Bourg Saint Maurice - SOWO: Meet the artist and signing session. Free event on reservation.

- 16 December at 6.00 PM
   Arc 1800 - Centre Bernard Taillefer: Preview screening of the film Jouer avec le feu by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin followed by a film-debate in the presence of the actors and producers with Salomé Saqué.

- 18 December at 6.00 PM
   Bourg Saint Maurice - La Scène: Presentation of the Moving Mountains prize to Claude Barras for his film Sauvages, screened after the ceremony. After the screening, discussion on: ‘How can cinema, particularly animation, enable intergenerational exchange and generate collaboration on major ecological issues?’, with Claude Barras, Salomé Saqué and Jérémie Renier, actor and director, founding member of the CUT group (Cinéma uni pour la Transition).

The common thread in debate

It's become a ritual: offering a group of around fifteen people a long break in an isolated chalet reached by snowshoes, to reflect in depth on a theme linked to the year's theme: ‘Our futures: youth and the challenges of the world’.
Based on the observation that a great deal of thought has already been given over the last few years to getting to know, understanding and attracting young people (aged 15/30) to cinemas, the subject of this night will focus less on this distribution/exhibition aspect, but on the more upstream aspect of the stories and film content likely to interest them. Here is the list of participants:

- Salomé SAQUÉ: journalist, columnist (Blast France Inter) and writer
- Mélanie TOUBEAU: @LaManieducinéma, writer
- Jennifer LUFAU: game player and digital marketing expert, director of the ‘Afrogameuses’ association and editor of the blog Call me Jane Bond
- Jérémie RÉNIER: actor and founder of CUT - Cinéma Uni pour la Transition (United Cinema for Transition)
- Maxime MUSQUA: actor, comedian and podactor
- Laurent SLAMA: director of Paris est à nous, Années 20, A second Life (project selected at the WIP)
- Clara DIETRICH: audience development (particularly 15/25) for the ADRC - Agence pour le Développement Régional du Cinéma (Agency for the Regional Development of Cinema)
- Julien NEUVILLE: founder of Podcast Nouvelles Écoutes
- Justine CORRADO: production student at CinéFabrique
- Salomé ARRU: scriptwriting student at CinéFabrique
- Arthur KELLER: engineer, consultant / systemic risks and resilience
- Amanda BEAUVILLE DIOUF: student at Kourtrajme
- Valentin LASUYE: student at Kourtrajme
- Agathe RIEDINGER: director of the film Diamant brut (presented at the Arcs Film Festival)

Once again this year, the chalet night will be developed in partnership with the ADN media.

A common thread for all audiences

Programme for the general public and schools:

This common thread will be expressed through films linked to our theme: the specific problems of today's young people, their view of the world today, their vision of the future and how they are preparing for it, the different possible future scenarios.
We will be organising film debates around these films with film-makers and other people who can shed light on the subject. One will be aimed at the general public, and the other will focus more on schoolchildren, who will be involved in the discussions.

Of course, we will be particularly keen to involve young festival-goers, who make up almost a third of our audience. In-depth work is being done in advance of the festival with the school district of Bourg Saint Maurice, our privileged partner, to involve them and give them a special role in this edition.

May a wind of youth blow over our mountains!

A workshop for professionals:

Each year, a collective intelligence workshop was organised as part of the Industry Village, so that the producers, salespeople, distributors present could reflect together on a subject linked to the main theme.
Last year, the theme of the workshop was: ‘Mental health in cinema: an elephant under the (red) carpet? The specific issue of addictions’. The aim of the workshop was to break down the taboo surrounding this issue in the industry and find collective solutions to combat addiction in the film industry. To find out more about this experience, you can read the report on the workshop held in 2023 here.

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