the film festival created by Aurélie Cardin places the suburbs at the top of the bill

Aurélie Cardin grew up in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), a suburban town where she lived until she was 40 years old. Not finding enough of her suburbs at the cinema, it is one day when her teacher takes her class to see a film, that she has the click. The film takes place in Aubervilliers and makes him think of his own family history.

But isn’t representing the suburbs in the cinema a risk of assimilating it to the ghetto? Aurélie Cardin replies that her desire is precisely to show that “yes, I’m from the suburbs, but I’m going to prove to you that I have talent, that I can access major world prizes but on the other hand, I’m going to be proud of where I come from”. Aurélie Cardin also talks about the difficulty of wanting to exercise an artistic profession when you come from the suburbs and points out the gap between society and social reality. Cinébanlieue, “It’s to tell the new generation, look there are technicians, scriptwriters… who look like you. Things are moving forward, even if they are still moving too slowly for me”, confides Aurélie Cardin.