It’s a festival week ahead for the France Culture teams, and in particular its documentary division. The latter will be present both in Biarritz for the Fipadoc (International Documentary Film Festival) – open since January 24, it lasts until February 1, 2025 – and at Length of Waves, radio and film festival. listening, which takes place from January 29 to February 2 in Brest. A double opportunity to present the successes and ambitions of the public station and its new head of the dedicated division, Emmanuel Laurentin, appointed to this position in June 2024.
“Documentarian at heart” since his beginnings within the station, the creator and host, for twenty years, of the Factory of History details at Liberation the projects attached to his new responsibilities. With the idea of extending the successes of France Culture, like Feet on the ground or LSD, the do series