A unique event
The Du Grain Dmoudre cinema festival is the only one of its kind in Europe produced with young people. Aged between 10 and 25, these youngsters come from the Le Havre region, and nurture ties with other young people from France and elsewhere in Europe.
The aim of these young people is to transmit their passion for cinema to a wide public both young people and adults, from every social background, cinema-lovers or not. They also wish to forge ties with other young people in this field.
The Du Grain Dmoudre festival is also a way to maintain exchanges with other young people.
Prepared throughout the year by a very motivated group of youngsters, the event is an important opportunity to discover previously unseen short and feature-length films in France and to rediscover European film heritage works. It also provides a basis for exchanges between film professionals and young Europeans in the Le Havre region, in Normandy and in Europe.
Many cinema professionals take part in the event every year directors, scriptwriters, actors, critics, technicians, cinema programmers, festival organisers and representatives from various organisations.
In the beginning
The Du Grain Dmoudre Film Festival was created in 2000 by 18 young people who have been exposed to cinema since the age of 6, in the framework of a close and ongoing partnership between the Mayville school in Gonfreville lOrcher and the independent cinema in Le Havre, the Eden-Le Volcan Scne nationale.
From the outset, the event has provided the opportunity to evaluate the impact of initiation to cinema and pictures on young spectators, on their imaginations, their social and cultural behavior, and their artistic activity. It has also laid the foundations for analysis of the role this education of image plays.
Throughout the Year
The Festival is actively prepared throughout the year by the young organisers and professionals. They develop their event and watch films on a Saturday afternoon and during the more intensive work periods of holiday school.
During the winter, spring and summer holidays, the young people meet for a week to get to know each other better, to learn (with hands-on workshops, film analysis, debates on cinema etc) and to actively prepare their festival (with screenings, choosing the feature-length and short films in competition, heritage films, the planning of the festival program, organisation and communication with public relations, editing the Canard Engrain newspaper etc).
The winter holiday school (from 20 to 25 February) gave them the chance to work on the theme they had chosen: the travel.
The spring workshop (from 18 to 22 April)and the summer school (from 3 to 9 July) will focus on the organisation of the festival and the participants will watch the films to choose them.
The young organisers produce the newspaper "Le Canard Engrain", via which they can share their passion and their musings on matters relating to film, image and sound.
They organise a scriptwriting competition every year (this year on the theme of the travel).
They make films.
This year, they are making a film on the theme of the travel.
THEME: THE TRAVEL
Each year, the young people choose a theme for the festival.
In 2006, they have chosen to explore the Travel. This is the theme of the screenwriting competition open to young Europeans aged 15 to 25.
2000 - Transmission
2001 - Young People and Europe
2002 - Otherness
2003 - Fear
2004 - Rebellion
2005 - Absurd
