2017 Edition
Founded in 1999, the Festival International du Film d'Archéologie de Nyon is now in its tenth year. In the course of previous festivals, we have seen the evolution of archaeological film and the emergence of new cinematographic technologies adapted to documentary film, such as computer-generated images, virtual reality and docu-fiction.
In 2017, a new technique, regularly used in cinema, came to rub shoulders with the archaeology film. Aventicum D-Couverte, a film about the Helvetian capital, was shown in 3D on the opening night. Two other films from French-speaking Switzerland rounded out the program for an evening devoted entirely to regional archaeology: "La Bâtie Rouelbeau", which presented the results of ten years of excavations at Château Rouelbeau in Meinier (Geneva), and the films produced for the Pully Museums' Archéolab.
Throughout the week, the festival took us on a journey around the world, with films covering the history of every continent: Australia, China, North and South America, Africa and, of course, Europe.
A special focus was placed on the Pre-Columbian period in the Thursday evening session: Christophe Delaere, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, presented his underwater research carried out in Bolivia on Lake Titicaca.
This tenth edition was also an opportunity to reflect on the history of archaeology and how knowledge has evolved. On Friday evening, the film "La naissance de la préhistoire" ("The birth of prehistory") took us back to the beginnings of this discipline, its development and the evolution of human thought linked to it.
The festival closed on Saturday evening with the presentation of awards to the best productions and the screening of a selection of award-winning films.
Trailers for films presented at FIFAN:
- Aventicum D-Coverby Philippe Nicolet, presented at FIFAN Tuesday, March 21 at 9:15pm
- Handa and Woopaby Stéphane Kowalczyk and Florent Rivère, projected wednesday, march 22 at 3pm
- At the source of Angkorby Olivier Horn, presented at FIFAN Wednesday, March 22 at 5:30 p.m.
- China: Lost treasures of the Han dynastyby Ian Bremner, presented at FIFAN on wednesday, march 22 at 8pm
- Neanderthal twilight, for modern dawnby Rob Hope, presented at FIFAN Friday, March 24 at 2 p.m.
- The enigma of the Great Menhirby Marie-Anne Sorba and Jean-Marc Cazenave, presented at FIFAN Friday, March 24 at 3:10 p.m.
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