COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE ❷ ….………………………………..…………………………....…………...Genève, le 21 mars 2015 THE POET OPENS THE 10 ème EDITION OF THE FIFOG The FIFOG 2015 started yesterday Friday, March 20 at the Cinema : Function at the Maison des arts Grütli of Geneva. The opening was marked by the screening of the documentary film Earth absence , meeting with Adonis , by John Albert Jansen. Ensued the films Thousand and one Cairo and Not even any hurt , respectively by Jacques Siron , multimedia artist Genevan and Nadia El Fani, Tunisian activist. In his inauguration speech, the Artistic Director of FIFOG Tahar Houchi , bowed in memory of the victims of recent attacks at Bardo Museum in Tunis. ADONIS CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF FESTIVAL To mark this special day , the worldwide known poet Adonis has offered a poem to the spectators and shared with them the 10th anniversary cake. In the discussion wich followed the screening of which he is the protagonist, a rich and fruitful discussion was held with festival goers who listened with emotion. An occasion to celebrate the poet through his own language, love and freedom, that he considers as his homeland, and shares with FIFOG . GENEVE TAKES THE COLORS OF THE EAST For 10 days to come, from March 20 to 29 , Romandie will live with the colors of the East. More than 100 films and 80 guests are on show at the 2015 FIFOG . Besides this documentary weekend , more than 30 feature films and nearly 50 short films , organized in 12 Orient-Express are programmed at the festival. To report, programming FIFOG Classics , the jewels of Eastern cinema with the highlight of a tribute to Faten Hamama , the recently extinct Egyptian star , heroine of Our best days of Helmy Halim , alongside a certain ... Omar Sharif . Also , to celebrate the Swiss cinema, FIFOG offers several Swiss short films in the Competition participating to the SWISS MADE Competition. FIFOG 2015, FIGURES • 100 movies, short films and documentaries from Algeria, Belgium, Egypt, the United States, Jordan, Iran, Lebanon, France, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey, Switzerland and Syria; • 20 locations of projection: Cinémas du Grütli, Fonction: Cinéma, Ciné-Saussure, CinéVersoix, Lausanne, in neighbouring France and in the United Nations Office in Geneva. • 4 competitions for a Golden FIFOG and a Silver FIFOG for full-length feature films, short films, documentaries, shorts swiss films and Bayoumi Prize “Une Certaine Image”. • 2 School Awards involving the International School og Geneva and the Cycle d’Orientation de la Seymaz. The FIFOG celebrates its 10th anniversary at a time when barbarism threatens peace between East and West. While the ranks of obscurantist and racist groups are growing, the voices of wisdom and love remain inaudible. The FIFOG wants to amplify the sounds of those first victims. Dedicated to Love, the FIFOG responds to hatred with love, to violence with art, to barbarism with poetry. This guiding idea is concentrated in an arrangement of 100 impertinent and fresh works from East and West, accompanied by sixty guests. SER VICE PR ESSE Isabelle Fringuet-Paturle Tamina Wicky et Mariam Mussa +41 79 268 06 28 +41 77 419 57 17 [email protected] [email protected] FIFOG Tahar Houchi Directeur artistique +41 78 761 13 79 www.fifog.com 2015 Sofiane Bouchaïb Coordinateur général +41 79 278 19 07