Bozar's cinema team wanted to develop new formats to make its programming clearer. Together with other initiatives Art & Film, Premiere, Close-up, Family Film Club, Immersive Cinema and New Voices, the Our Burning World format was launched in January 2024 and focuses on Georgia, a country with a thriving film industry.  Juliette Duret explains: "We wanted to raise political, geopolitical and societal issues through film, which is generally a good mirror for what's going on in the world 

Talking to Zoë Gray, director of exhibitions, it became clear to Juliette that Bozar's main theme for the season, Love is Louder, was a perfect theme for Our Burning World, "In an anxiety-ridden world, the question of relationships has been profoundly affected. Ultimately, the question is: how does cinema translate love into its own language? It explores themes such as adelphity, family, friendship, the limits of the couple, etc." As for the name Our Burning World, it aims to put its finger on some of the burning issues. "It's up to us to make these various subjects our own through a precise selection, while integrating a theme that is specific to Bozar," continues Juliette. "As a cultural centre, we want to go beyond art to address political and societal issues

How does cinema translate love into its own language?

Juliette Duret emphasises that she does not work alone: "We're a team, and everyone brings their own personal touch In this programme of films and meetings, Love is Louder focuses more on societal issues than on pleasure or sexuality. For example, in Las Chicas del Sur, the 45-year-old director, who has no children of her own, questions the notion of love through the relationship model of her parents, which she does not wish to reproduce.

The opening film, Slow, will be presented by the director, who won the award for Best Film at Sundance. In it, she tackles the issue of a couple faced with the asexuality of one of their partners: how can this situation be resolved? How far can a couple go? Juliette clearly fell in love with these two films, as well as Dreaming Dyingand Fragments d'un parcours amoureux, whose director Chloé Barreau, who has been filming her relationships for over thirty years, will be at Bozar for the screening. The film combines archive footage with current interviews. 

The Our Burning World programme: Love is Louder, which runs from 20 November to December 1st, presents 9 films that explore the notion of love. Click here to find out more about the programme or see a summary below. 

• Slow by Marija Kavtaradze, 20 Nov.'24 - 19:00:  Asexuality is a subject often neglected in cinema, but this film tackles it with sensitivity and depth, offering rare insights into this important subject. In the presence of the director. 
   
• Chrissy Judy by Todd Flaherty', 21 → 27 Nov.'24:  "What do you do when your chosen family no longer chooses you?"
   
• Dreaming & Dying by Nelson Yeo, 22 Nov. → 1 Dec.'24 : Three friends get together for the first time in years. Each of them sets out to confess hidden feelings, but their holiday takes a surprising turn when their past lives threaten to resurface.
   
• Fragments d'un parcours amoureux by Chloé Barreau' - 22 + 23 Nov. '24:  For over thirty years, Chloé Barreau has been filming her relationships in Paris and Rome. When she was seeing someone, she was already shaping their memory by filming, photographing and writing. But how do her exes remember her?
   
• The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed by Joanna Arnow' - 23 Nov.'24 - 14:00:  An ironic, outrageous, low-budget film, and a symbol of the American independent film scene. In the presence of the director. 
   
• 'I shot Andy Warhol - "Scum Manifesto" by Ovidie' - Nov. '24 - 19:00 : director Ovidie (Eloïse Delsart)explores the violent life of Solanas, the author of radical feminist prose. In the presence of the director. 
   
• Meet the Thinker: Ovidie' - 25 Nov.'24 - 19:30
   
• las Novias del Sur by Elena López Riera + Soft Fiction by Chick Strand' - 29 Nov.'24 - 19:00 two films that reflect deeply on relationships, the body, and women's heritage.
   
• 'All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White by Babatunde Apalowo' - 29 + 30 Nov.'24  the meeting of two characters evolving in a hostile Lagos, where only their looks and interactions are enough to convey the complexity of their desires and emotions.
   
• Blackbird Blackberry by Elene Naveriani' - 1 Dec. '24 - 14:00 : the film poetically explores themes such as freedom, unconventional love, patriarchy, and solitude, and also highlights the wild beauty of nature, which subtly accompanies the heroine's emotional awakening.

The next Our Burning Love programme, scheduled for January 2025, will look at the issue of gender and equality between men and women in the Arab world. The idea is to have two programmes per year.