One letter, 250 signatures – La Liberté

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FIFF » A letter signed by 250 people denounces the Decryption section.

The Décryptage section offered by the programming of the Friborg International Film Festival (FIFF) has not finished making people talk regarding it. After the feminist rebellion on social networks (LL of March 17), an open letter signed by 250 people, including personalities, artists, associations and collectives, denounces the “superficial nature” of this section, dedicated to films which might not be produced today.

In this letter entitled “Ok Boomer”, the choice of films and the lack of mediation are pinpointed. A way of doing things that “shocked”, can we read in a press release. And the group at the origin of this letter to reproach the lack of questioning of the festival. Finally, he regrets that the Grand trial of comedy held last Sunday was “nothing but grotesque amusement to the detriment of social minorities already torn enough daily