Friendship: a different way of sharing?
Trials of the Century - season 4
Moderator: Nora Hamadi
With Alice Raybaud, journalist, and Céline Sciamma, writer, director, actress
With the participation of Mireille Jacotin, Head Curator of Heritage, in charge of the Public Life Department at Mucem.
In our imaginations, the passage to adulthood often relegates friendship to second place, well behind the loving couple. While couple and family models are evolving, friendship remains a less visible, less valued bond in our society.
And yet… For some years now, friendship has been increasingly asserted, and even contractualized, as a way of imagining new bonds of benevolence, solidarity and even struggle in the face of a world in crisis. Between friends, new ways of living, consuming, exchanging, making family, educating, growing old and militating together are being invented.
So, is friendship the future of bonding?
Nora Hamadi
Nora Hamadi © ARTE
Nora Hamadi, journalist, has been producer of the program “Sous les radars” on France Culture and the face of Arte’s European programs since September 2021. Since 2015, she has been co-editor-in-chief with Raphal Yem of Fumigène, littérature de rue, a magazine dedicated to current affairs as seen from working-class neighborhoods, and leads numerous popular education workshops on media and information, in schools, social centers and neighborhood centers. She chairs the Collectif ŒIL and ZEP, Zone d’expression prioritaire, two associations dedicated to bringing the voices and stories of the invisible into the public arena.
Alice Raybaud
Alice Raybaud 01© Charlotte Krebs
Alice Raybaud is a journalist with Le Monde, for whom she documents young people. Nos puissantes amitiés. Des liens politiques, des lieux de résistance (Editions La Découverte, January 2024) is her first book.
Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma graduated from La Fémis with a degree in screenwriting, and in 2007 directed her first film, La Naissance des pieuvres, based on her graduation film. Presented at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, the film won the Louis-Delluc prize for first feature. Her next film, Tomboy (2011), in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, was a great success with audiences and critics alike. In 2014, Céline Sciamma returned to Cannes with Bande de filles, presented at the Directors’ Fortnight. At the same time, she continues to work as a screenwriter, notably for Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, alias Para One, who has composed the music for all her films. She participated in the writing development of Fabrice Gobert’s series Les Revenants, co-wrote André Téchiné’s Quand on a 17 ans, and penned the screenplay for the animated film Ma vie de zucchini, revealed at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2016. Portrait de la jeune fille en feu won the screenplay prize at Cannes in 2019 and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. In 2021, Céline Sciamma signs Petite maman, a children’s film in which a girl befriends her mother, now a little girl again.
Moderator: Nora Hamadi
With Alice Raybaud, journalist, and Céline Sciamma, writer, director, actress
With the participation of Mireille Jacotin, Head Curator of Heritage, in charge of the Public Life Department at Mucem.
In our imaginations, the passage to adulthood often relegates friendship to second place, well behind the loving couple. While couple and family models are evolving, friendship remains a less visible, less valued bond in our society.
And yet… For some years now, friendship has been increasingly asserted, and even contractualized, as a way of imagining new bonds of benevolence, solidarity and even struggle in the face of a world in crisis. Between friends, new ways of living, consuming, exchanging, making family, educating, growing old and militating together are being invented.
So, is friendship the future of bonding?
Nora Hamadi
Nora Hamadi © ARTE
Nora Hamadi, journalist, has been producer of the program “Sous les radars” on France Culture and the face of Arte’s European programs since September 2021. Since 2015, she has been co-editor-in-chief with Raphal Yem of Fumigène, littérature de rue, a magazine dedicated to current affairs as seen from working-class neighborhoods, and leads numerous popular education workshops on media and information, in schools, social centers and neighborhood centers. She chairs the Collectif ŒIL and ZEP, Zone d’expression prioritaire, two associations dedicated to bringing the voices and stories of the invisible into the public arena.
Alice Raybaud
Alice Raybaud 01© Charlotte Krebs
Alice Raybaud is a journalist with Le Monde, for whom she documents young people. Nos puissantes amitiés. Des liens politiques, des lieux de résistance (Editions La Découverte, January 2024) is her first book.
Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma graduated from La Fémis with a degree in screenwriting, and in 2007 directed her first film, La Naissance des pieuvres, based on her graduation film. Presented at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, the film won the Louis-Delluc prize for first feature. Her next film, Tomboy (2011), in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, was a great success with audiences and critics alike. In 2014, Céline Sciamma returned to Cannes with Bande de filles, presented at the Directors’ Fortnight. At the same time, she continues to work as a screenwriter, notably for Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, alias Para One, who has composed the music for all her films. She participated in the writing development of Fabrice Gobert’s series Les Revenants, co-wrote André Téchiné’s Quand on a 17 ans, and penned the screenplay for the animated film Ma vie de zucchini, revealed at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2016. Portrait de la jeune fille en feu won the screenplay prize at Cannes in 2019 and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. In 2021, Céline Sciamma signs Petite maman, a children’s film in which a girl befriends her mother, now a little girl again.