Year 2024-2025 : INDIVIDUAL, GROUP, COMMUNITY

Editorial

Focus

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Last year

Editorial

Just 30 years ago, a new film education programme was launched in France to mark the first Century of cinema. Au commencement du Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse was the film Jeunes lumières, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995.

Over time, this programme has grown and been joined by other countries around the world. A unique network of partner organisations (archives, cinemas, associations, etc.) share in this adventure, based on a demanding and inspiring approach to film education. Over the past 30 years, thousands of films have been made by the tens of thousands of students who have attended the CCAJ's workshops, along with their teachers and the film practitioners who have accompanied them.

Once again this year, the workshops will bring together nearly 2,000 participants in 15 countries and 8 regions of France.
As we celebrate 130 years of cinema, let's hope that this great energy and the support we've received will enable the programme to continue to grow, while remaining youthful.

Focus

There are subjects at the heart of the world around us and our daily lives that can be explored particularly through the medium of cinema: this is the case of "individual, group, community", the theme chosen for this new edition of the CCAJ.

Cinema is an art that allows us to show both the group and the individuals that make it up, through the choices made in terms of cutting, the size of shots, framing and editing.

This relationship between the individual and the group is the basis of stories and testimonies that have been told throughout history and in all cinematographies, in the form of both fiction and documentary.

A group is a gathering of individuals at a given moment. This gathering is often random, between individuals who have not chosen it (a bus, a classroom, etc.), whereas a community is a group of individuals who share one or more values, common characteristics: a religion, a specific culture, a social class, etc.

Where we will be talking about crowds and solitude, integration and exclusion, oppression and solidarity, centre and periphery, rituals and laws...