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A festival to what end? To share with the public today’s cinemas. Yes, the cinema harbors a plural, a plurality of forms, formats, lengths, approaches and gazes. A unique moment when directors from all over the world rub nourish our present with all they have. If FIDMarseille’s roots are in the documentary, it is to remember realities are our ground, without forgetting that this soil propagates many different worlds and even more ways of bearing witness to them. And if this testimony is a necessity, an urgency, it is with the conscience that we must find the courage, the precision, the joyful conviction too, to make heard and seen, that in the name of which it moves forward. Unexpected, daring, pertinent, rebellious, as surprising as our world knows how to be, this is the kind of cinema that the FID is excited to champion.

The 24th edition of FIDMarseille will take place from July 2 to 8, 2013 in more than 10 locations in Marseille, cinemas, theatres, galleries, outside screenings and will present about 150 films, for the most part premieres, in a rich program made up of the official selection (international competition, national competition, competition of first films), parallel programming, round tables, exhibitions, concerts. The 5th edition of FIDLab, international platform for support to coproduction, will be held July 4-5, 2013.