She was one of the revelations of the French team at the Paris Paralympic Games. Aurélie Aubert, Olympic boccia champion, will be visiting Moselle. She is expected on November 18, 2024 in Sarreguemines, on the occasion of the opening evening of the Different Looks project. An event set up with the international film festival on disability, the third edition of which will take place from November 18 to 22, 2024.
“The emotion will be there.” These words from Christine Carafa, deputy mayor in charge of prevention and public health during the presentation of the festival, do not obscure the educational and awareness-raising aspect of this event included in the “Different views” project carried out by the City as part of its youth policy, notably marked throughout the year by numerous initiatives in favor of the right to be different, diversity and awareness of disability. The festival created in 2016 rewards short and feature films dedicated to difference and disability in all its forms. Beyond its cinematographic context, this event is intended to be the expression of a real and great mobilization around the inclusion of people with disabilities.
“A change in the way we look at disability”
Christina Carafa, deputy mayor of Sarreguemines
In addition to Aurélie Aubert, other exchanges will be planned with health professionals and personalities from the world of disability including Michel Lo Monaco, Disability programming manager at the Louvre Museum, Georges Coudouel, from the Trisomie 21 Rhône and Métropole de Lyon during the closing of the event, on September 22 at the Casino des Faïenceries where demonstrations of wrestling, dancing and singing will be given by people with disabilities and will also offer the possibility.
1,600 students with the participation of those from the Franco-German high school in Sarrebrück, no less than 30 associations, the departmental adapted sports committee, the municipal youth council will be involved or have already participated in awareness-raising phases of which the festival is the outcome. “The aim remains to participate in a change in the way we view disability and the mentalities surrounding it. People with disabilities need healthy eyes. This is why we mainly target young people through actions as diverse as theater performances, singing and other sporting demonstrations and initiations,” explains Christine Carafa.
There remains the film festival itself. The eight short films and four feature films that make it up combine romantic comedies, philosophical tales, satires or dramas, cartoons (for children or adults), documentaries, fiction and even science fiction! Screenings are open free to the general public at the Forum cinemas, notably on Tuesday November 19 at 5 p.m. with the screening of the feature film “Sais-tu Why I Jump” by Jerry Rothwel (USA-United Kingdom), on November 21 at 8 p.m. with at programs the fiction feature film “Chuskit” by Priya Ramasubban (India).
Full program here
