A letter to my friends so we can learn to make movies together:
"I play"
You play.
We play
At the cinema
You think there is
One rule of the game
Because you are a child,
What he doesn't know yet,
That this is a game and that it is
For the elderly
Of which you are already a part
Because you forgot
That this is child's play
For the elderly
Of which you are already a part
Because you forgot
That this is child's play
What does it consist of?
There are several definitions
Here are two or three
See you later.
In the mirror of others
Let's forget and know
Fast and slow
The World And Yourself
Let's think and talk
Strange game
This is life.
~ Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
"Young European Cinema Meetings" is increasingly becoming a space for creativity and exploration of cinema, developing its year-round film education activities dedicated to young people. For the second year in a row, the festival successfully cooperates with the CinEd initiative - a program for European film education, thanks to which hundreds of Bulgarian children and young people are now exposed to classic and contemporary European films.
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Since September, "Meetings of Young European Cinema" is also the only partner from Bulgaria to take part in the project "Cinema, One Hundred Years of Youth", initiated and coordinated by the French National Film Library (Cinémathèque Française). Created in 1995, the program allows young people from 7 to 18 years old to live a unique experience in cinema, uniting theory and practice around a given theme.
This year, “Cinema, One Hundred Years of Youth” brings together 44 studios from 14 countries around the world, and the common theme for all is “The Game in Cinema”. The students who are joining the project from Bulgaria are the bright eleventh graders Karim, Megi, Tsveti, Gabi, Maria and Nadya from the “National Vocational High School of Photography and Printing”, together with their dedicated teacher Yoana Angelova, who showed interest in the film education programs of “Meetings” last year. “We are looking for exactly such teachers. We realize that everything depends on them – the initial enthusiasm, the trust gained by the students, the desire and the results,” share the coordinators of the program for Bulgaria – Vasilena Vasileva and Ralitsa Asenova.
Throughout the school year, the students work with the festival team and their mentor Vasilena Vasileva, watching films, discussing them and filming exercises that will gradually turn into a real short film. The film made during the workshop will be shown in Paris in June, when for three days children and young people from all over the world show their creativity, accompanied by teachers and mentors. For three days, the French Film Library becomes a place for meetings and cultural exchange. The Bulgarian students who will travel this year will also have the task of programmers and in this way, by watching the films of their peers from all over the world, they will select their own program of films, which will be shown during the fourth edition of the Meetings of Young European Cinema at the end of June, along with their own film.
