Festival La Rochelle Cinéma (53e édition et 54e édition)

ongoing

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 91 000 over ten days. More than 25 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, by paying great attention to way the public and professionals are received. Throughout the year, in partnership with other organizations, the festival also implements a series of projects, online, in diverse locations and venues, that aim to support emerging European filmmakers, develop new audiences and improve film literacy among students, young people, inhabitants of outlying areas, prisoners and the hospitalized (many workshops, opportunities for contact with professionals and special film programmes). The festival develops a strategy to be environmentally-respectful and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.