"We Are One", a palliative film festival

Text by: Isabelle Chenu Follow

Twenty major film festivals that could not be held due to the coronavirus pandemic have agreed to participate in the "We Are One" initiative. This palliative film festival, organized online on YouTube until June 7, offers a free selection of around a hundred films at specific times.

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The idea was beautiful and the initiative commendable when in full containment twenty of the biggest film festivals in the world decided to join forces around the concept "We are one". A free online festival that offers a hundred films from selections from years past to be rediscovered on your computer at specific times like for an indoor session.

An altruistic approach

Few new features in this program and obviously no sensation that could bring us closer to the collective experience of a film festival and projections on a giant screen. Beyond twenty works of fiction, film buffs can discover documentaries, short films or old masterclasses with big names in the seventh art such as Alain Delon or Francis Ford Coppola. We Are One started from an altruistic approach initiated by Jane Rosenthal, founder of the New York festival of Tribeca, a film festival also born in adversity in order to revitalize the district of the twin towers after the attacks of September 11 2001.

A stopgap while waiting for the Mostra

As generous as the idea is, We Are One is a last resort, perhaps awaiting the glamor and the artistic proposal of the Venice Film Festival in reality next September.

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