Two Festivals in Grenoble

After receiving awards for her films Horse of Mud and Sad Song of Touha at the Grenoble International Short Film Festival in 1973, the Egyptian documentary filmmaker Ateyyat Al-Abnoudy returns for the following edition to film behind the scenes. Deux festivals à Grenoble documents the organisation of the festival and the relation of its various stakeholders: organisers, filmmakers, publics. Made collaboratively in a workshop, the film is itself a document of attempts to demystify cinema and give it shape as another culture of outside of commercial and institutional frameworks. – EMAF