The International Women’s Film Festival (FIFF) is celebrating its anniversary. The event returns from March 24 to April 2 for its 45th edition. Organized each year in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), its aim is to promote the work of women in the film industry and to pay tribute to pioneers not necessarily known to the general public.
“Since its creation in 1979, the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival has been fighting to change the lives and future of women, in all professions in general, and in cinema in particular, once morest stereotypes, once morest erasing their history, forgetting their roles, for the equality and recognition of their rights”, develops Jackie Buet, the director of the festival, in the presentation of this anniversary edition, centered around the theme “La Fabrique de l’ ’emancipation’.
Preview, meetings and masterclass
On the program: previews, meetings or even masterclasses, organized in Paris or Créteil, either at the Maison des arts et de la culture, or at the La Lucarne cinemas and the Cinémas du Palais. Renowned female directors such as Rebecca Zlotowski and Coline Serreau will notably be present at the festival. Each year, the cinema highlights a Alex Reed of honor: for this 2023 edition, it is Agnès Jaoui. The actress and director will thus present a lesson in cinema. In addition, five films from his carte blanche will be shown.
The festival will also honor Annie Ernaux: the writer, Nobel Prize for Literature 2022, will be present on Thursday March 30 at the Maison des arts et de la culture for the broadcast of the documentary “Les Mots comme des pierre, Annie Ernaux writer by director Michelle Porte. At the same time, “The Super 8 Years”, a film directed by Annie Ernaux and her son David Ernaux-Briot and “L’Evénement” by Audrey Divan, an adaptation of the writer’s eponymous novel, will be shown at the La Lucarne cinema.
