At the time when the 79th Cannes Film Festival will open on 12 May 2026, Guillaume Bachy, director of cinemas at the Palais in Créteil, in the Paris region, and president of the French Association of Art and Essay Cinemas (Afcae), looks back at the vitality of cinema in France and the territorial mesh of its cinemas, which make it an essential cultural place of proximity.
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At the time when the 79th Cannes Film Festival will open on 12 May 2026, Guillaume Bachy, director of cinemas at the Palais in Créteil, in the Paris region, and president of the French Association of Art and Essay Cinemas (Afcae), looks back at the vitality of cinema in France and the territorial mesh of its cinemas, which make it an essential cultural place of proximity.