Saturday, March 22, 2025 will mark the PRINTONALE, the name now given for the past two years to the INTER+VALUE’s Spring “Conviviale”.

This year, it is organised in collaboration with the Aria Nova association, on the theme of ITALY.

It will begin in the morning with INTER+CAFÉ #7, the 7th meeting of the Book Club, held at La Rencontre Bookshop (Librairie La Rencontre), 8 rue Georges Charpak in Rennes (more details on the INTER+CAFÉ page or in the News section).

Participants will then gather at 1 p.m.

at the Maison Internationale de Rennes (MIR)

7 quai Chateaubriand – 2nd floor

for a

🍽️ SHARED LUNCH

inspired by Italian specialities brought by participants (everyone brings a food item, dish or drink).

Lunch will be followed by these cultural activities:

Open to all, free participation!

The film: Venice, 18th century. At the Sant'Ignazio Institute, both orphanage and conservatoire for young girls, everyone is buzzing about the imminent visit of the new Pope and the big concert to be given in his honour. Teresa, a quiet and solitary young maid, makes a special discovery that will revolutionise life at the conservatoire: a fortepiano.

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2.30 p.m.-3.30 p.m. – INTERCULTURAL GAMES with Sokha Bournak from the DUDIWAN association.

3.30-6 p.m. – Screening in the MIR (Maison Internationale de Rennes) – Auditorium of the film GLORIA! (2024, 106 min), a historical and musical drama by Margherita Vicario, followed by a discussion on Women’s position in Italian society.

6 p.m.-7 p.m. – ITALIAN APERITIVO.

Excerpt from a review by Cornelis Hähnel

(originally in German, translated into English via French)

[...] Presented in Competition at the latest Berlin Festival, this Italian-Swiss co-production is dedicated to (little-known) women composers whose fame and recognition have faded with time. Margherita Vicario, an Italian singer, composer and actress, tells this historical drama with a singular creative urgency as music gradually rises out of the everyday. Vicario gives us a glimpse of this as the clatter of domestic chores transforms into rhythmic flights in Teresa’s imagination. […]

The meeting place: La Ruche, 19 rue Louis Kérautret Botmel, Rennes.

The 2nd INTER+CLaC event will take place on Saturday, November 16, from 3 p.m. It will be preceded by a shared lunch from 12.30 p.m.

This event is part of FESTISOL 2024, which this year focuses on Environment and the Rights of Peoples.

This theme inspired both the choice of the British film being screened – The Emerald Forest by John Boorman (1985, 110 min) – as well as the title of this INTER+CLaC: Seeds Against Steel (Bulbes de terre contre bulldozers).

FESTISOL ••• PROGRAMME FOR 2024 IN RENNES

The film: Bill Markham is an American engineer who has come to build a hydroelectric dam on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. One day, one of his children, 7-year-old Tommy, is abducted near the construction site by an Indigenous tribe known as the Invisible People. Ten years later, the dam is complete, but Bill and his wife have never stopped searching for their son, without success.

Now known as Tomme, the boy has been raised by the tribe and embraced their way of life. As a young man, he must undergo a rite of passage to become an adult, which involves venturing alone into the forest in search of special stones whose clay grants the tribe their power of invisibility. The Invisible People, however, are under threat, both from a rival tribe – the Fierce People – and from the accelerating deforestation driven by the dam project…

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INTER+CLaC #2 • DETAILED INFORMATION

Tommy/Tomme, the young hero

Father and Son

The Emerald Forest - Review by Clément Costa, Écran large (French online media) 24/05/24

The Emerald Forest - Review by Sylvestre Picard, Première (French film magazine) 24/06/24

From 6.00 p.m., the event will wrap up with an AMAZONIAN & CARIBBEAN APÉRO.

Registration required: to help us organise the activities and apéro properly, please register by clicking this link before November 12.

This first session will focus on the theme: Democracy in Europe, 50 years after the Carnation Revolution.

It will begin with the screening of April Captains (Capitães de Abril), a Franco-Portuguese film by Maria de Medeiros, released in 2000 (2h03).

The film retraces the events of April 25, 1974 when a military uprising led by a group of junior officers – the captains – brought an end to Portugal’s long-standing Salazarist dictatorship (1933-1974) and its colonial war in Africa, while restoring democracy.

This peaceful uprising, known as the Carnation Revolution, left a lasting impression, not only in Portugal, where it took place, but also across Europe, where many followed this unusual revolution with great interest.

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The officers, heroes of the film

Maria de Medeiros,
actress and director

Saturday, October 5, 2024 will mark the AUTOMNALE, or the 2024 INTER+VALUE’s Autumn "Conviviale".

Following the General Assembly and a shared lunch, the very first INTER+CLaC of the 2024–2025 season will begin at 3 p.m., to launch the association's new cultural initiative, named INTER+(VALUE) Cap Langues et Cultures.

Each session will offer a space for discussion and debate on topics introduced by an exhibition, a theatre performance, a film, or another medium exploring current issues with an intercultural or international perspective.

Open to all, free participation!

From 6.00 p.m., the event will wrap up with a “convivial” drink.