Festival La Rochelle Cinéma (49e édition et 50e édition)

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The Festival La Rochelle Cinema - International Film Festival (Fema), a non-competitive and non-specialised festival, screens each year 220 films of which most part are non national european films. Each edition, attendance figures are expected to reach 86 000 over ten days (in 2021, about 53 627 because of pandemic period). More than 22 MEDIA countries are represented. The programme is organised into retrospectives, tributes, discoveries, a section devoted to previously unseen films and previews, a section presenting restored films, a Nuit Blanche (an all-night, themed film marathon), children’s films, film-concerts and special events. The screenings are accompanied by a variety of master classes and interviews with film personalities. Additionally, events are organised throughout the festival for industry professionals. We aim to cultivate the spirit of conviviality, lauded by festival-goers in the surveys carried out by the festival (99% were satisfied with the atmosphere and 73% very satisfied in the last official survey), by paying great attention to way the public and professionals are received. Throughout the year, in partnership with other european festivals and organizations, the festival also implements a series of projects that aim to support emerging european filmmakers, develop new audiences and improve film literacy among students, young people, the inhabitants of outlying areas, prisoners and the sick (many workshops, opportunities for contact with professionals and special film programmes). The festival develops a strategic to be environmentally-respectful and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.