This festival is a big joke, and the organizer an impostor. He is selling dream on his website. However, when you arrive in Cannes you just realize you’re been screwed up: Firstly the only poor persons that attended the festival were the filmmakers coming from far away for most of them (what a deception for them!). Secondly, concerning the screening, I can do a better projection with a better sound system with my old computer: it is just splitting in the face of filmmakers. And finally, the filmmakers were supposed to sell a piece their art work at an exhibition: there were no exhibition as you can imagine! Great!! SO: if you do not want to lose your time, your money, and your mind, just forget this festival! léa Around 8 years ago

This festival is a big joke, and the organizer an impostor. He is selling dream on his website. However, when you arrive in Cannes you just realize you’re been screwed up: Firstly the only poor persons that attended the festival were the filmmakers coming from far away for most of them (what a deception for them!). Secondly, concerning the screening, I can do a better projection with a better sound system with my old computer: it is just splitting in the face of filmmakers. And finally, the filmmakers were supposed to sell a piece their art work at an exhibition: there were no exhibition as you can imagine! Great!! SO: if you do not want to lose your time, your money, and your mind, just forget this festival! léa Around 8 years ago

Dear friends and critics. We recognize that this year the projection room of the Hotel Eden was not operational at the quality of sound and image. We searched with the staff of the hotel that was wrong and finally we realize that a cable connectivity was a flaw ... We are suing the hotel who is responsible for this, the AVIFF renting an auditorium in working order and the hotel to maintain it. We apologized repeatedly during sessions and looked again the problem that we did finally discover that at the end of the festival.
As director of this festival I accept the blame for this criticism and once again I want to say that we are sorry that this situation has nothing to do with any disrespect for artists / authors.

In our defense I should say that:
We have always been clear in our communication and have no connection with the Cannes Film Festival which is an old lady of 67 years and has no interest ( yet ) in our actions.
We do our best to develop young but independent festival in a difficult period for the city of Cannes belongs to the entire Cannes Film Festival and places are expensive and rare.
We have an interest that is to promote arthouse films and develop this share of video art on the market for contemporary art during the film festival
Finally, we are not a film festival with deep pockets and are working our best to make this enjoyable for all adventure. Thus we are getting better every year.

Also regarding the personal attacks I read your comments, I do not answer that if I see the trace of low regard you pay to people in general.

This AVIFF Cannes festival is a meeting place and discoveries. Let us preserve the meaning and accept some imperfections that make it even
christian Around 7 years ago