At 4:00 p.m., find the “Bagarre dans la Discotheque” with Stéphanie Van Vyve and Gorian Delpâture. From 4:30 p.m., head to Namur and the 39th edition of the International Francophone Film Festival (FIFF), which takes place from September 27 to October 4. We talk about it with Pierre Lottin and Emmanuel Courcol, whose film “En fanfare” opens. The film will be released in theaters on December 4. Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns that he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a brother, Jimmy, a school canteen employee who plays the trombone in a marching band in the north of France. Apparently everything separates them, except the love of music. Detecting his brother’s exceptional musical abilities, Thibaut makes it his mission to repair the injustice of fate. Jimmy then begins to dream of another life… At 5:00 p.m., watch “Le 5:00 p.m. by Hélène Maquet”. Foreign literature with Gorian Delpâture: “Neighbors” by Diane Oliver (Buchet-Chastel). The book you hold in your hands is a collection of short stories, but don’t put it down yet, it has passed through sixty years of darkness before reaching you. A prodigy of American literature who died too soon at the age of twenty-two, Diane Oliver leaves us with this moving observation of finesse of various existences under the laws of Jim Crow in the 1960s. With a surprising modernity, the young author introduced into the heart of homes that face racism and segregation on a daily basis – a child who will be the first black student in a segregated school, a family taking refuge in the forest – ready to do anything to protect their son or even a young girl who participates in his first militant act. Today considered a Zora Neale Hurston or a feminine James Baldwin, Diane Oliver was rediscovered in 2022 and her work was published posthumously in several countries. Reading this unique work, one cannot help but be convinced that good literature is immortal. “Myriam Leroy doesn’t like nuance”.
