The new Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, pledged on Friday to make heritage
"more accessible"
, to
"defend a public, pluralist and independent audiovisual sector"
and to
"amplify the development of our cinema"
.
In the midst of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the promise of a "
great plan for artistic professions (...) to preserve know-how, perpetuate it
" and "
create professions of the future for our youth
" was also sketched by the 43-year-old Franco-Lebanese, at the end of the afternoon, on the occasion of the transfer of power with Roselyne Bachelot, rue de Valois.
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"I am determined to defend our cultural sovereignty to affirm the place of French creation, of the French language, of French innovation in the digital ocean, and soon in the metaverse
," said Rima Abdul-Malak.
"I am determined to fight to invest more massively than ever in artistic education, in encouraging artistic practices to develop our youth's desire for culture
," added President Emmanuel Macron's former cultural adviser. .
Work to appease memories
“
I am delighted to be able to work with
Pap Ndiaye
”
, new Minister of National Education, also specified the Minister, who wishes
“to place culture in the policy of appeasement of memories”
driven by Emmanuel Macron.
“It is neither a policy of repentance nor a policy of denial, it is a policy of recognition”
, she assured.
Among the other axes of the new tenant of the rue de Valois, figure the accompaniment of the cultural institutions in
“their ecological transition”
.
"It's a major and titanic challenge"
, underlined the one who says she left
"the place of the shadow adviser"
to become a minister.
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In a more intimate register, Rima Abdul-Malak paid tribute to her parents,
“who have the courage to leave
Beirut in the middle of the war
with their three children and five suitcases and who chose France and its motto of freedom, equality, fraternity »
.
The Minister of Culture also paid tribute to her French teacher in college, who transmitted to her
"the most beautiful of viruses"
, that
of the theater, and to
"children in refugee camps, hospitals, orphanages"
who she met during her work with the NGO Clowns sans frontières.
Outgoing Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, for her part, recalled the results of her mandate.
He had started in July 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, during which his ministry provided 14.6 billion euros to help a weakened cultural environment.
