The return to cinema 2020, between hopes and uncertainties

Actress Radha Mitchelle at the Venice Film Festival, September 10, 2020. REUTERS / Guglielmo Mangiapane

By: Sophie Torlotin Follow

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This Saturday, we open the files of the reopening of the cinema: what about attendance in theaters since the reopening last June?

From production to exploitation, including filming and distribution, how are the sectors of the 7th art doing?

How do you adapt to a fluctuating global reality, by definition unpredictable?

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Is the Covid-19 pandemic turning all the cards down or is it above all a formidable accelerator of transformations already underway, with the explosion of streaming platforms?

In this context, what can festivals look like in a time of Covid: a somewhat desperate attempt to return to the world before?

Or the foreshadowing of what awaits us with virtual projections?

What festivals also look like in Covid time: Elisabeth returns from the

, the first major international festival to resume, and tells us what the Lido and its screens look like.

We will also go to India, China and Canada where the

has just opened

And then we receive in the studio two guests, privileged witnesses of the state of cinema:

, co-director of the distribution company

, and president of the union of independent distributors

And

, deputy editor-in-chief of the prestigious magazine

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