CINEMA OF INCLUSION: BETWEEN VISION AND EDUCATION
ON FIRE. Traces of Resilient Imaginaries in a Shattered World

Isola Edipo and Giornate degli Autori, in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, dedicate the ninth edition of Cinema of Inclusion: Between Vision and Education to a reflection on the critical role of cinema in an increasingly fragmented world, with the participation of filmmakers Céline Sciamma, Caroline Poggi, and Jonathan Vinel.
This year’s edition will thus be marked by a rich plurality of artistic voices coming together to explore the role and transformative power of the visual arts in shaping a collective imaginary within a disintegrating world. The initiative stands at the intersection of artistic vision and educational purpose, reaffirming its role as a platform for critical reflection and cultural engagement.
At a time when traditional paradigms and interpretive frameworks are rapidly dissolving, the event turns to artists – tightrope walkers by nature, between differing realities – as essential guides in reconstructing a gaze capable of containing contradictions, paradoxes, boundaries, and diverse film languages. The dialogue between the different yet equally radical cinematic visions of Céline Sciamma, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel offers an opportunity to explore the contemporary paths film can take to face a real- ity inundated by image production and simultaneously deprived of coherent perspectives.

PANEL DISCUSSION

• A masterclass with Céline Sciamma, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel in conversation with Adele Tulli, including the screening of a selection of their work.
• An exploration of the works of Céline Sciamma, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel curated by Alessandro Del Re (Rete Cinema in Laguna), Marco Dalla Gassa (Ca’ Foscari), and Francesco Zucconi (IUAV).

SCREENINGS
Naissance des pieuvres
Céline Sciamma
France, 2007, 85'
Fifteen-year-old Marie is watching an exhibition of synchronized swimming and is fascinated by the best swimmer, the beautiful Floriane.

Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
France, 2014, 30'
Two friends. One commits suicide. The other doesn’t want to continue living either. But before he can go, he must take care of his brother’s future and find a family for him.

Comment ça va?
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
France, 2025, 31'
A group of animals live on a wild coastline and try to heal the ills caused by the contemporary world. A kind of rehab.

SPECIAL SCREENING
Best Secret Place
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
France, 2023, 61'
Within my walls, many people are taking a break. Waiting to live.
The film was commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

FILMMAKER
Céline Sciamma wrote and directed Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011), Girlhood (2014), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), and Petite Maman (2021). She regularly collaborates with other directors such as Claude Barras, on My Life as a Zucchini (2016), and lately Noémie Merlant on The Balconettes (2024). For the past few years, she has been visiting film schools and universities all over Europe. In 2023, she directed and produced the documentary short film This Is how a Child Becomes a Poet, shot in Patrizia Cavalli’s home and screened at Giornate degli Autori, for which she served as Jury President in 2022.

Caroline Poggi studied film editing at the University of Corsica and later graduated from Paris 8 University. Jonathan Vinel studied editing at La FÉMIS. They began as solo directors before co-directing, among others, Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompes, which won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 2014 Berlinale. Their first feature film, Jessica Forever (2018), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and later screened at Berlinale 2019. Their latest film, Eat the Night, was shown at the 2024 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, while, this year, La fille qui explose is part of the Venice Immersive Extended Reality (XR) section of the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

Adele Tulli is a film director and researcher, interested in experimentation in the field of creative documentary filmmaking and contemporary visual culture. Following an M.A. at Goldsmiths and a Ph.D at Roehampton University, she now teaches non-fiction and experimental cinema. Tulli’s works have been screened and exhibited at international events such as the Berlinale, the Locarno Film Festival, IDFA, and CPH:DOX; as well as institutions that include the Fondazione Prada (Milan), MAXXI Museum (Rome), Lincoln Center (New York), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London).