Meeting-screening "Can cinema still save the world"

Film presentation Fruit of a two-year investigation conducted between Liège and Carcassonne, this film meets those who make and defend engaged cinema. From De Costa-Gavras to Robert Guédiguian, passing through Stéphane Brizé, Maria de Medeiros or Thierry Michel, dozens of filmmakers and journalists provide an uncompromising assessment. This initiative is at the heart of major political issues. Faced with democratic and climate crises and the rise of nationalism, the cultural field is now imposing itself as the terrain of a deep ideological battle. Recent dynamics at work in France — like the Festival du Film Politique de Carcassonne, forced to reaffirm its financial and ideological independence in the face of the new orientations of a far-right municipality — directly echo Belgian realities. En Belgique as well, conservative offensives are multiplying to restrict critical spaces and weaken the associative fabric. If some doubt the power of cinema, others prove that films can change things. Everyone shares, however, a certainty: gathering citizens in the same room to think together is already an essential political act.