{"id":58771,"date":"2026-06-28T20:14:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifotahiti.com\/?p=58771"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:51:14","slug":"fabienne-hanclot-opening-up-to-the-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifotahiti.com\/fr\/fabienne-hanclot-opening-up-to-the-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabienne Hanclot: \u201cOpening Up to the Imagination\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PROFILE<\/strong> \u2013 Fabienne Hanclot is currently the director of Ard\u00e8che Images in Lussas. She is in French Polynesia for the first time and is a member of the FIFO 2026 jury.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Cheerful and dreamy, Fabienne Hanclot has a deep thirst for discovery. A perfectionist, she maintains a very strong connection with images. She was born and raised in a small town between industry and the sea, Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rh\u00f4ne. It was there, in the local cinema, that she discovered her passion for storytelling.<\/p>\r\n

From that moment on, her world opened up to imagination. With images filling her mind, she dreamed of turning it into a career. After completing high school, she moved to England to study languages with a focus on cinema. Once her studies were finished, she headed to the United States to work. There, she held various jobs related to the world of images.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cMy career has been linked to film distribution, both fiction and documentary. I love this world,\u201d Fabienne explains. Her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is impressive. Former director of the French Film Festival of Athens for seven years, she later became the director of a cinema in the Paris region.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThis openness to the world taught me to understand other cultures, to take an interest in different perspectives and different stories. It is very enriching,\u201d notes the FIFO 2026 jury member.<\/p>\r\n

Fabienne continued her journey by becoming General Delegate of ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema), \u201cwhich is a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival,\u201d she specifies. She held this position for 13 years. She then went on to lead the department supporting diversity in creation at the CNC (National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image).<\/p>\r\n

Since September 2024, she has been the director of Ard\u00e8che Images in Lussas.<\/p>\r\n

It is a rich career she would not trade for anything. \u201cCinema opened me up to the world. It showed me that other worlds, other lives were possible. And there were people who passed that on to me\u2014they were guides. I do not come from a family connected to this field at all. I fell into it by watching films and meeting people who shared the same passion. I feel that my whole life, just as it was done for me, I pass it on to others,\u201d Fabienne says with a smile.<\/p>\r\n

She continues: \u201cWhat I love is the power of imagination. I love being able to offer other ways of imagining. I love a free imagination where we can share different cultures. It seems essential for us, and for our children.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\u201cDiscovering other cultures\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Always in search of new stories, Fabienne is committed to passing the torch.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cAt Ard\u00e8che Images, I make sure to give the students I supervise all the tools they need to be as free as possible and to find new forms of expression. My work is really about opening people up to imagination\u2014to things they might not necessarily want to see or might not otherwise have access to. This is especially true in documentary filmmaking. We go to meet others and seek truth. That\u2019s why we do this job. We are here to discover other cultures, other stories. We want to share all of that,\u201d insists the mother of a 12-year-old son.<\/p>\r\n

Imagination occupies all her thoughts, and she nurtures it through her many travels. She also loves music and dancing. \u201cI lived for seven years in Greece, in Athens. I became very interested in traditional music and in how art is part of everyday life. I became very sensitive to art,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\r\n

An idealist, she hopes for a better world. \u201cOur time is very difficult, very chaotic, and it gives even more meaning to our work. Today, despite all the screens, I feel there is a closing of imagination. There is an overwhelming kind of propaganda through powerful imagery. I feel that everything can close in, despite the omnipresence of screens,\u201d says the director.<\/p>\r\n

Committed and driven, Fabienne describes herself as \u201ca bull charging forward.\u201d Today, she is happy to be part of the FIFO jury. \u201cI am eager to discover new cultures. I don\u2019t know Oceania at all, and I look forward to discovering it through the festival. I believe in openness at all costs and in breaking away from preconceived ideas. I can\u2019t wait to hear stories that we don\u2019t hear or see in mainland France. I hope, if the films allow it, to be able to show them later in Ard\u00e8che,\u201d concludes Fabienne Hanclot.<\/p>\r\n

Credits:\u00a0Jenny Hunter \u2013 FIFO Tahiti<\/p>\r\n

Photography:\u00a0Studio Marama \u2013 FIFO Tahiti<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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