International film festival of women of Creteil

The International film festival of Women of Creteil , called AFIFF , is a cinematographic festival created in 1978 and dedicated to the films whose realization is entrusted to women. Projections take place in particular with the Maison of Arts and the Culture of Creteil.

Genesis of the Festival

  • a Little history: the International film festival of Women was born in 1979 in a very unfavourable economic situation with the first attempts from the directors. For 30 years, it has supported the women in their first films and to the exit into the room. The number of the directors who then accounted for 2% in the profession in Europe is estimated today at 12% in Europe (15 to 20% in France).

We thus had the intuition of this opening, at the same time historical, artistic and sociological, which done the one of the exits into the room today. We are proud (E) S to have accompanied this phenomenon as of its beginnings and happy (its) by the recognition which the directors enjoy today, mainly in Europe.

The cinema of the women had to be invented in margin, it occupies the screens today. At the dawn of the 30e Festival in 2008, which can we say of the history of this festival and films of women, in whom we were very influential, in order to effectively define our project for the future in a technological context in full change?

We had left in the identity euphoria to research a cinema women, we passed gradually by several phases to arrive at a space “films of women” who implies a multiplicity of the glances, varied artistic currents, multiple identity research. Without giving up underlining the elements of what upset the cinema thanks to the contribution of the women (time, the bond very strong deprived public space/, time slowed down… etc), the discovered option, exploration, census propelled us in all the countries of the world through all the times in order to stress the importance of the women in the profession: at the same time quantitative and qualitative with the increasing arrival of the young generations and the women directors of the countries underprivileged or emigrated in Europe.

the delay in the census will never be filled but we succeeded in returning the visibility of the directors of each continent at the same time in space and time.

  • founders: Jackie Buet & Elisabeth Tréhard

  • members of the Board of directors: Ghaïss Jasser (President), Martine Aumaître (secretary), Dominique Fargeot (treasurer), Francoise Uneven, Jeanine Chauvet

  • the team: Jackie Buet (Direct), Christophe Bacon, Martine Delpon, Chiara Dacco, Frederique Royer, Sonia Bressler, #REDIRECT Gisele Abomo, Claire Lemaitre-Smith, Normalized Guevara, Roger Bourdeau, Nathalie Coutard.

Course of the Festival

the Festival during 10 days proposes a whole of films but also of devices which makes it possible each one to make its route according to its tastes, its desires. The grid posts nearly 150 films to see, to discover. The meetings at the House of Arts start at midday and finish about midnight and half. Three rooms uninterrupted, of the places of debates, the meetings…

  • the competition: each year, fifty unseen films are presented. With 10 feature films of fiction, 10 documentary feature films, 30 court-measurings.

  • Section set of themes or geographical: for 30 years, the festival has set up sections to make visible the work of the women in the cinema world. Each year a lighting is made on an area of the world, a country or around a trade.

  • Homages or freehand: they are winks, suprises made with directors that we follow since their beginning. Already several directors came: Ruth Beckermann, Reflected Nair, Maria Klonaris & Katerinia Thomadaki,

  • Stories to see: this section created by Sonia Bressler, within the team of the Festival, four years ago, makes it possible to be questioned around broad topics. This programming gathers in majority of documentary which raises and proposes to decipher the topicality. Already the concepts Of asylum, from exile, Of difference (S), the Utopias, the desires passed under the microscope of this inventive section and rebel.

  • Vidéos Women of Creteil: installation by Martine Delpon within the framework of the actions of district carried out near the women resulting from immigration. Each year, a training course of realization proceeds before the festival. The objective is to make it possible each one to carry out a one minute old film on a topic (like the ages, the receipts of kitchen, " insoumises"). All the films are then shown at the time of the festival in a special meeting which gathers Vidéos one Minute of the whole world.

  • Seed of Cinéphage: for more than 20 years, we have offered the possibility to the high-school pupils and to the schoolboys to discover the back of the decoration of the cinema. We propose to them to take part in the festival during the 10 days and not-stop. Workshops to them are proposed the morning (with an initiation with the trades of journalism, or realization, or initiation to a trade of the cinema: its, decoration, costume, etc), at the conclusion they must produce a film, a report, a newspaper, etc During 10 days, they discover the festival. Since 2005, initiation with the trades of journalism their is proposed. the College Guillaume Budé de Limeil Brévannes, takes part, each year, with the creation of Festimages, the Télé newspaper of the Festival. The class framed by their teachers: Sylvie Planchard, Jean-Philippe Jacquemin, Guillaume Poitrat, must carry out reports (to turn, assemble, find subjects, etc) for a diffusion with 20:00 - in premium time. the College Leon Blum of Creteil takes part with a class in the realization of the written daily newspaper of the festival. The every day the pupils are with the Festival, they carry out interviews, the installation of the newspaper, its impression like its diffusion at the same time in room and on Internet.

During 10 days, we thus try to sensitize the public and the young people with a significant, new, different cinematography. We set up and show our workshops in order to make become aware that a festival they are not only ten days of festivities, it is also a year of work and reflection. It is as for this reason as we set up a Resource center IRIS, accessible to the year.

Places of the Festival

  • the House of Arts and the Culture : Place Salvador Allende 94000 Creteil. It accommodates the competition, the great appointments, the meetings, the forums (with the personalities)… Subway: Creteil Prefecture/Site:

  • the cinema the Attic window : Meetings: 14:30, 16:30, 18:30, 21:00/the Attic window accommodate also the school ones for meetings in morning

MJC of the Mount Mesly 100, rue Juliette Savar - 94000 Creteil Tel.: 01 45 13 17 00 Subway: Creteil Prefecture/Site:

  • cinemas of the Palate : its three rooms organize previews. The meetings of 20:30 are followed of a debate. Shopping mall of the Palate - 40, allée Parmentier - Creteil. Tel. 08 92 68 91 23

Subway: Creteil University/Site:

  • to have information on the Festival, throughout the year, telephone to us to the 01 49 80 38 98 or look at our Internet site: or our blog: '

Editions

Next edition

  • the 30e edition of the festival will be held of the March 14th with the March 23rd 2008. Anniversaire obliges! We will enjoy films of yesterday with today on the whole of the continents, with in premium a continent surprised! Guests of honor, of the guest (E) S prestigious (/ses) are awaited (E) S, for an edition which is announced high colors. Obviously, the competition will be always present. It will gather 50 unseen films chosen throughout the world.

Preceding editions

  • the 29e edition of the festival was held of the 23 at April 1st 2007. This edition was rich meetings, installations of bridges thrown between banks and the cultures. We have to question with mischievousness the Désirs under all their forms. We tasted the British Cinéma together. A genuine salted sweetened candy which gave us desire for recrossing the English Channel. Charlotte Rampling, made us the honor return and share with us the revival of his career. Noëlle Châtelet, Daniel Vigne, Loïc Magneron, Philippe Grandrieux, Laura Benson, Marylin Alasset, Maryse Wolinski, made us the immense joy of taking part in the Large Jury.

  • the 28e edition of the festival was held of the 10 with the March 19th 2006. With more than 140 films come from the four corners from the world, the Festival 2006 is placed under the sign of the Utopies. Plural, they are in the center of our reflection, in image and out-field, in order to question our companies and to measure what they are able to invent so that finally occurs a better world. Jane Birkin made us the immense pleasure of joining us. Philippe Collin, Marie-France Pisier, Biyouna, Bruno Delloye, Marie Rivière, Jacqueline Victor, Mylène Bresson orchestrated the large Jury.

  • the 27e edition of the festival was held of the 11 with the March 20th 2005. Ten films of feature-length films of fiction, ten documentary feature-length films and thirty short films were in competition. In addition to fifty films in competition, more than 300 films were projected at the time of a festival attracting over ten days more than 30.000 spectators. To note the announced presence of Simone Veil at the time of the diffusion of film except competition: “One century with female”, portrait of Simone Veil. Presence also announced for ten Asian directors, and French actresses Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Julie Gayet.

Iris - Resource center

Information center and documentation dedicated to the history of the cinema and the women, Iris has been registered like tool of memory in a step of valorization and diffusion of the international inheritance cinematographic discovered and updated by the International film festival of Women of Creteil for 28 years.

  • Iris is a pluriculturel place of information, consultation, edition, of diffusion, exchanges and of confrontation on the image of the women. Its role is to place at the disposal the unit of its documentary resources and to make the them available to greatest number thanks to the most advanced technologies.

  • Iris has a media library (12000 films in VHS, umatic or beta), files paper (20000 film files registered with the festival with photographs, files of directors, film files) and of a library (publications of the festival and catalogs of almost 300 other festivals of the world since 1985).

  • Iris manages its funds using a data-processing professional database (4D). These funds enriched permanently propose services adapted to all the requests.

  • Iris is an open space bound for many people:

Cinema festivals, cinemas, video libraries, media libraries, libraries, centers of files, universities, researchers, female associations, artistic, cultural and social, MJC, media, town halls, ministries, embassies, work's councils, schools, training centres…

ITS ACTIVITIES

- council in programming and organization - research of having the right and localization of the copies - documentation on the films (synopsis, photographs…) - search for addresses - use potential of the French subtitles (system-electronics DUNE) - catalogs existing of the festivals

Of the editions

Currently available:

- " Films of Women - six generations of réalisatrices" , 1999,15€ - " The epopee of the women in the 7th art, in Europe" , 1996, - " 20 years of feminist theories on the cinéma" , 1993, Cinémaction, - Catalogs of the festival of 1982 with 2007,3€

In preparation:

- A video collection (in 2000) of films preceded since 1985 - A dictionary of the European directors on paper and CD-ROM - The programs sets of themes of the center on video K7 and CD-ROM

Of the Video productions:

- Lessons of cinema: they are lessons recorded during the Festival. Each year, Jackie Buet, the director and creative of the Festival, carries out discussions with the whole of the directors present at the festival. All are filmed, that thus gives a splendid vision of the realization. In our files we have lessons of directors known as others ignored. Catherine Breillat, Mirjam Kubescha, Agnes Varda, Marie Mandy, Ruth Beckermann, Reflected Nair, Laetitia Masson, Margarethe von Trotta, Dominique Blanc, Carine Alder, Collectif Amber…

Contacts IRIS/AFIFF : Chiara Dacco, person in charge of the center - Such: 33 1 49 80 38 98 - Tuesday to Thursday of 10:00 - 13:00 and 14:00 - 17:00/Subway: Line 8, terminus Creteil prefecture House of Arts (entered of the artists, 1st left stage)

Prize list

Grand Prix of the Jury

  • 2005 : Sepet of Yasmin Ahmad (Malaysia)
  • 2006: Sévigné of Marta Balletbò-coll (Spain)
  • 2007: How is Your Fish Today ? of Xiaolu Guo (China/Great Britain)

Price AFJ/Price ACRIF Docs-High-school pupils

  • 2005 : Prostitution bag sloret ( Prostitution behind the veil ) of Nahid Persson (Denmark)

  • In 2006 the price becomes Prix ACRIF Docs-High-school pupils

Price of the Public Better feature-length film fiction

  • 2005 : Brødre ( Brothers / Brothers ) of Susanne Bier (Denmark)
  • 2006: Both of Lissett Bracellos (the United States, Peru)
  • 2007: Shot The Messenger of Ngozi Onwurah (Great Britain)

Price of the Public Better documentary feature-length film

  • 2005 : Prostitution bag sloret ( Prostitution behind the veil ) of Nahid Persson (Denmark)
  • 2006: Zero dismantles off separation It Flanders (Canada)
  • 2007: Resistencia of Lucinda Torre (Spain)

Price of the Public Better French short film

  • 2005 : the Leopard never moves without its spots of Hélèna Klotz (France)
  • 2006: princesses of the track of Marie Hélia (France)
  • 2007: the Walk of Marina de Van (France)

Price of the Public Better foreign short film

Price Channel +

  • 2005 : Hoi May/Hello Maya of Claudia Lorenz (Swiss)
  • 2006: Stalk of Leigh Hodgkinson (the United Kingdom)
  • 2007: The selected films passed all on the chain

Price of Beaumarchais Association

  • 2005 : the currents of Sofia Norlin (France)
  • 2006: Featherweight of Nolwenn Lemesle (France)
  • 2007: National of Alix Barbey (France/Germany)

Price of the jury Granulates of Cinéphage

  • 2005 : … ing , film of fiction of Eon-Hee Lee (South Korea)
  • 2006: Frozen Angels , documentary of Frauke Sandig and Erik Black (Germany, E. - U.) and a special mention with Lili and the baobab tree of Chantal Richard (France)
  • 2007: Shot The Messenger of Ngozi Onwurah (Great Britain)

Price ACRIF Docs-High-school pupils

This price replaces that of the AFJ, it from now on is allotted by a jury of high-school pupils

  • 2006 : Oyun of Roble Esmer (Turkey) special mention with Balordi of Mirjam Kubescha (Italy/Germany)

  • 2007: Enemy off Happiness of Eva Mulvad (Denmark) special mention with Dialogs in the Dark of Melek Taylan (Turkey)

Price of the jury Paris XII

  • 2005 : Mercy of Candida Scott-Knight (the United Kingdom) (2004)
  • 2006: has Song for Rebecca of Norah McGettigan (Poland)
  • 2007: Embrace Me of Kim Hye-Jee (Poland)

Price of the scenario the Manuscript

  • 2005 : Alliances of Dye stick Bismuth (France)
  • 2006: Chronic bakers of Claudine Bourbigot (France)
  • 2007: Ciao, children! of Solange Sogalen (France)

External bonds

  • Official site of the festival
  • the blog of the Festival
  • Vidéos Women of Creteil

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