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FESTIVAL OF CINEMA AND ARTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN "ARTE MARE"
From 2 October To 10 October
Cinema
20200 Bastia
04 95 58 85 50
Event date : - From 2 October To 10 October
Wheelchair friendly : Yes
Presentation
Arte Mare at the helm!
A festival is nothing like a court of law. If there is a ‘court’ at all, it is more like a school playground – with all due respect to André Cayatte, a barrister at the Paris Bar who, from 1950 onwards, put his filmmaking skills at the service of legal causes, declaring: ‘I want to turn the cinema into a court of appeal. ”
It must be said that justice is a recurring theme in cinema. The photogenic appeal of the steps leading up to a courthouse, a courtroom, and the robes worn by judges and lawyers is well established. For over a century, filmmakers have chosen the courtroom as their setting; legal cases have become screenplays, and figures from the legal world have been brought to life by film actors.
Courtroom dramas – some of which are major works – remind us of the importance of this institution in our lives. As for the seventh art, it explains, deciphers, analyses, exposes and encourages critical thinking – an ambition shared by the festival, which, for one week each year, acts as the registrar of Mediterranean cinema.
But Arte Mare has other strings to its bow: three competitions — Mediterranean feature films, Corsican films, and student films — like so many pending cases.
There are other highlights too: a wide-ranging programme of preview screenings, debates, talks, exhibitions, the Ulysses Prize, music and local bistronomy.
And no rules other than hospitality.
Michèle Corrotti
