Lhe final events of the Paralympic Games have barely finished and already other flames are being lit in Paris and the Ile-de-France region. From September 8 until the end of December, the Festival d’Automne will uphold the values of openness and universalism, no longer on the sports fields, but on the 62 Ile-de-France stages chosen to host this new edition of the major cultural event of the new school year.
True to its DNA, the 2024 Fall Festival aims to be the point of convergence between disciplines (music, theater, dance, cinema, visual arts, performance, etc.) and artists from all over the world (31 countries in total), some long-time regulars, others invited for the first time, old hands and young guard brought together in the same program. A “cohabitation of points of view”as summed up by Francesca Corona, the artistic director of the festival since 2022, for whom this edition is marked by questions around exile, the diaspora, social and historical justice, and more broadly by a “sharp complexity” in the way we weave stories about our world.
A documented theater
And who better than the Lebanese duo formed by Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué, exiled in Germany since 2013, to embody this multiple and tormented geopolitics, these stories and these diasporic journeys that are the substratum of many creators present at the festival? With a dozen shows on the program, including a creation around the minutes of the trial of Bertolt Brecht in the United States in 1947 (Four walls and a roof), The “portrait” that the festival dedicates to this couple of artists offers a unique opportunity to immerse oneself in a singular work, a documented theatre where narrative boundaries explode.
The autumn journey promises to be rich in discoveries and reunions. It will take on Lithuanian accents, with the visual artist Lina Lapelyte, poetic champion of “being together”; Iranian, with the choreographer Sorour Darabi and his first opera inspired by One Thousand and One Nights ; Thai, with the major retrospective offered to the filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Tunisian, with the invitation to the Dream City festival; Italian also, with the “portrait” dedicated to the composer Clara Iannotta, who also settled in Germany after having lived in France and the United States. “I lost my sense of belonging a little bit”she tells us. A leitmotif that many artists invited to the Festival d’Automne this year could take up and which perfectly symbolises the profound meaning of this edition with its doors resolutely wide open.
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