Under a new concept, this festival rubric has no intention of confronting the two spokespersons of two genders, concerning their respective approaches to the feminine in cinema or cinema in the feminine. It is much more oriented towards an interwoven vision, namely the entrenchment of a culture that goes beyond « Positive discrimination » which, by itself, cannot resolve the forms of conformism which inhibit feminine creativity among film directors, men and women alike.
According to C.-G. Jung and G. Bachelard, neither a woman can ignore the dialogue with her masculine side, nor a man with his feminine side. This is why our activity is supposed to trigger (if not to be a catalyst) actions and reactions that aim to free the individuals (men and women) who operate in the cinematographic space from the yoke of unfounded clichés and prejudices, all linked to the question of gender in a sort of attempt to go beyond what Bachelard calls “the difficult problem of putting and maintaining in each of the two partners the harmony of their double gender” (The Poetics of Reverie).
(1) For Jung, Animus is the masculine part lying within women. In other words, it is “the sum of the eternal masculine archetypal representations of women's collective imagination”
(2) Anima, is the same concept for men
This year, the choice fell on the Moroccan director Abdelhaï Laraki, for his experience in cinema and his contribution as part of a new generation of directors, along with the Italian producer Caroline Locardi and actress Amal Ayouch, through their perspectives on cinema.