Jean Rouch Festival
The Jean Rouch Festival
The Comité du film ethnographique has been organizing the Jean Rouch International Festival in Paris for 40 years. Initiated by filmmaker and ethnologist Jean Rouch (1917-2004), this event is a unique opportunity in France to screen documentaries that reveal the social and cultural evolution of human societies and man's relationship with the environment. Around 26 films in competition from every continent, 8 prizes awarded, tributes to ethnological documentary filmmakers, themed screenings and debates. The Festival is a lively place for discovery, encounters, reflection, collaboration and debate between filmmakers, scientists, production professionals and the general public.
Inalco, a natural partner
Since 2012, Inalco has been associated with the Jean Rouch Festival. Inalco analyzes the movements of the world and societies through its training and research in history, geography, politics, economics, political science and sociology. However, this mapping would be incomplete without ethnology, a discipline that is essential to understanding societies, particularly when it produces or relies on the first-hand sources that are films.
The Prix Mondes en regards
The Inalco jury, made up of a student, a teacher and a staff member, takes part each year in the international competition of the Festival Jean Rouch. On this occasion, it awards the Prix Mondes en regards from among the films in competition, in connection with Inalco's cultural areas and disciplines. The prize is endowed with 1,000 euros for French translation and subtitling of the winning film. The winning film is then screened the same year in the Inalco auditorium.
Films awarded by the Inalco jury since 2012
The Regards comparés selection
Since 2012, in November, Inalco has hosted the "Regards comparés" selection around a special theme. Regards comparés" is a four-day program of documentary films and debates, produced jointly by the Comité du film ethnographique and teachers at Inalco.
Consult the program of previous editions
The Inalco 2025 jury
Camille Aguilar Reinat
A Mayanist by training, Camille Aguilar Reinat learned Yucatecan Maya at Inalco, where she now teaches. As part of her doctoral thesis, she is interested in the evolution of politico-religious rhetoric in Mayan correspondence, which she approaches through anthropology, history and linguistics. In addition to her archival research, she regularly travels to Quintana Roo to share in the lives of the inhabitants of the Mayan-speaking village of Pino Suarez.
Étoile Connan-Ringay
A second-year student in the LLCER Siamese and Intercultural Communication and Training programs at Inalco, she has nurtured a deep passion for art in all its forms from an early age, with a particular affection for cinema. She aspires to become a director and journalist in this field. Curious and committed, she finds inspiration in the diversity of cultural and artistic expression. Her keen interest in minorities and cinema guides her gaze and enriches her vision of the world.
Emma Bahous
Emma Bahous is in charge of archives at Inalco's Service de l'information scientifique, des archives et du patrimoine, and holds a Master's degree in Archives from Paris 8. She is in charge of managing the institution's administrative archives, as well as promoting scientific archives, particularly those of teacher-researchers.