The curtain fell on Friday on the various competitions of the Kélibia Amateur International Film Festival. Pending the charts, the moviegoer is the big winner of this week of all screens.
Cinephile fever should fall back this evening after reading the charts and the closing evening of the thirty-sixth edition of the Kélibia Amateur International Film Festival.
For a week, the peaceful town of La Pointe du Cap Bon lived between the sweetness of the vacationers and the fever of the seventh art.
A gross estimate of frequenting the festival makes it possible to advance the overall figure of ten thousand spectators who returned to populate the outdoor theater. With more than a thousand spectators per evening, FIFAK was an undeniable public success.
In addition, it was by no means an audience in search of leisure and freshness but rather a connoisseur audience, living in tune with the festival and the seventh art.
FIFAK teaches us that when a festival offers a youth promotion platform, the latter interacts positively and provides massive support on the initiative.
This is the case in Kélibia, as part of a festival open to self -taught and students, a festival where each participant dreams of a springboard for the future and, sometimes, finds it.
It is not the slightest satisfaction of festival -goers to have seen nearly a hundred films in a week. Some – I am part – have kept the challenge of seeing all the films in competition, more than twenty hours of viewing.
At the end of the week, the feeling of satisfaction is coupled with the joy of having discovered many works that underline the current imagination of the Tunisian aspiring filmmakers. In addition, international competition is an interesting observatory for young people and also a source of inspiration for their future work.
This Saturday, while the festival jury puts the last hand at the various records and prepares its recommendations, the weather is pending. The moviemal fever is in dotted lines while waiting for the closing evening. The winners and disappointed will be side by side: the first will continue their momentum and the latter will seek to do better.
Joy and pain will coexist but will have as a session, the will to make better and make a place in the sun. The ambition, the love of art and the diversity of opinions will finally continue to form the base of the festival.
Tonight, the list will be known. This fact has all its importance, but the award -winning works should not make us forget the forest of initiatives, dreams and activism behind the trees in the foreground.
For my part, after a week of juror, I resume tomorrow, my criticism cap and will continue the writing of these notebooks until the end of the month, to share some lights and several favorites.
