EnviroFest Tunisia gets underway

Tunis: The opening ceremony of the 7th edition of Envirofest Tunisia took place Friday at the City of Culture, with attendance of environmental campaigners and environment film fans. French Frédéric Tellier's Goliath (120', 2022), which addresses the issue of pesticides, was screened. Fiction and animation films as well as documentaries are on the agenda of this edition (May 24-29). The festival provides a platform of debate on environment-related issues. Eight films representing France, Switzertland and Tunisia will be shown. The eco-responsible village was also inaugurated. It is an opportunity for the general public to meet with civil society organisations, artists and green artisans. Workshops to raise children's awareness about environment challenges and receive initiation into sorting plastic for recycling are scheduled. Envirofest Tunisia will land, after Tunis, in nine more cities from June to October. This includes La Marsa, Sousse, Djerba, Bizerte, Gabes, Sfax and Redayef; another city in the n orthwest will be picked seubsequently. Festival Director Hichem Ben Khamsa presented the nine films selected for this edition which, he told TAP, put forward possible solutions to mitigate the impact of environmental challenges." EnviroFest Tunisia is one among thirty environment-focused festivals across the world. The festival agenda includes films from France, Switzerland and Tunisia. Envirofest Tunisia is organised on the initiative of Tunisia Cinema Foundation, in partnership mainly with the National Centre of Cinema and Image (CNCI), the Institut Français de Tunisie, the Swiss embassy in Tunis and the EU Delegation in Tunisia as well as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) . Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse