Inalco partner of the 42nd Jean Rouch International Festival

Partner of the Festival since 2012, the Inalco jury awards the Prix Mondes en regards at the Festival, recognizing one of the films in the international competition whose language and/or geographical area are taught at Inalco. This prize is endowed with 1,000 euros for the French translation and subtitling of the film.

In 2022, the Inalco jury chose to award the film La combattante by Camille Ponsin.



In addition, the Comité du film ethnographique and Inalco organize the annual "Regards comparés " selection at the Pôle des langues et civilisations. The next edition will take place from November 20 to 23, 2023, and will focus on the theme of Oceania.

42nd Jean Rouch International Festival: seeing the world differently

The Jean Rouch International Festival is one of Europe's leading events for creative documentary cinema linked to the human and social sciences. The Festival invites all audiences to see the world differently, through the multitude of human journeys, both singular and collective, otherness and interculturality, social, cultural and political practices, and relationships with the environment. Over the years, the Festival has become a unique and unmissable venue, offering professionals and the general public alike a space for reflection and sharing. As a result, in 2021, it was awarded the CNRS Medal for Scientific Mediation.
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The 42nd edition of the Festival will be held in Paris from May 4 to 26, 2023. Admission to all sessions and events is free.

The 18 films in competition will be screened at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in the presence of the filmmakers, scientists and documentary film specialists from May 4 to 11.



The winning films will be screened at the Musée de l'Homme from May 24 to 26, and a selection of sound documentaries will be shown at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord from May 15 to 17.
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The Inalco 2023 jury

Composed of a student, a teacher and an Inalco staff member, the jury is responsible for awarding the Prix Mondes en regards.



A second-year research master's student in Anthropology of China at Inalco, Hugo Hermer developed an early passion for foreign languages and Oriental cultures. His research focuses on the changing traditional practices of the Mongolian community in China, with an anthropology of tourism as well. As an amateur photographer, he has developed a sensitivity to the visual arts, as well as to ethnological cinema.



University professor of sociolinguistics at Inalco and member of Phanie, center de l'ethnologie et de l'image, Brigitte Rasoloniaina is seduced by the work of Jean Rouch and has been a faithful participant in the Bilan du film ethnographique and then the Festival international Jean-Rouch. Convinced by the interest of the filmic approach in her research on plurilingual urbanized spaces, which, among other things, gives the opportunity to act on the sociolinguistic representations of speakers, she has co-directed three documentary films on urban markets (Rabat's Medina and Antananarivo's Zoma).



Graduating from Inalco with a research master's degree in Chinese studies, Kai Yan Ly is currently an information and orientation manager at Inalco. At the same time, she is interested in the problems encountered by people of immigrant background in relation to identity. Her research focuses on issues of memory and transmission of the genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, more specifically within the diaspora of Cambodian Chinese. She is a member of the multidisciplinary research network, Migrations de l'Asie de l'Est et du Sud-Est en France (MAF), and an associate member of the PolAsie project (Political Participation of Asian Migrants and their Descendants in France).