Dears friends,
The latest news is not encouraging; it looks like a flashback to spring 2020…
This time, however, we have masks and vaccines, so we hope that in 3 months we will be able to welcome you to La Rochelle for the 49th edition of the Fema.
After the empty road of 2020, we are delighted to reveal our poster for 2021, painted for the 31st year by Stanislas Bouvier. We are immensely grateful to him, especially in this moment of great fragility, for this enduring artistic and cinephile collaboration.
« As though suspended among the sinuous lines of a set flooded with light, the characters of the poster are arranged around a spiral whose design evokes the unrolling of a reel of film through the projector.
A visual metaphor of the cinema we celebrate at La Rochelle, this loop adorned with phantom figures draws inspiration from a shot in Roberto Rossellini’s Europe ‘51, starting point of a tragedy of passion inscribed at the heart of the Italian filmmaker’s Solitude Trilogy, between Stromboli and Journey to Italy. »
Stanislas Bouvier
This magnificent Roberto Rossellini's film will be shown as part of a major retrospective whose titles are listed on the site, as well as those of René Clément, Maurice Pialat, and Roberto Gavaldón
The complete program will be announced late May.
In the meantime, we hope that cultural centers and movie theaters will soon be able to reopen under the health regulations established on December 15, the previously planned reopening date.
We were at La Coursive last Sunday for a day of cultural activism. We encourage you to read the manifesto by the Acid and GNCR for a speedy reopening of movie theaters and to sign the petition supported by numerous filmmakers.
A bientôt,
The Fema La Rochelle team