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Val-de-Marne: these cinemas offer “Relax” screenings adapted to physical and mental disabilities

2024-02-27T14:33:48.430Z

Highlights: Val-de-Marne cinemas offer screenings adapted to physical and mental disabilities. The Culture Relax system, formerly Ciné-ma difference, aims to make culture accessible to people who are deprived of it by their disability. Dim lights that do not go out suddenly, sound volume slightly lowered, everything is done to create “a caring and warm environment, where everyone is welcomed and respected as they are”. Around forty people came to see “Chasse gardee”, a comedy by Antonin Fourlon and Frédéric Forestier.


Going to the cinema is a banal act, but one which, with certain disabilities, seems impossible or turns into an ordeal. The Relax device, pr


Before the film, no commercials.

Instead, a short speech to explain to spectators that they are attending a Relax cinema session.

Dim lights that do not go out suddenly, sound volume slightly lowered, everything is done to create “a caring and warm environment, where everyone is welcomed and respected as they are”.

The Culture Relax system, formerly Ciné-ma difference, aims to make culture accessible to people who are deprived of it by their disability (autism, multiple physical, intellectual or cognitive disabilities, psychological disorders, Alzheimer's disease, etc.).

This Saturday afternoon, at the La Pléiade cinema in Cachan (Val-de-Marne), around forty people came to see “Chasse gardee”, a comedy by Antonin Fourlon and Frédéric Forestier.

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Source: leparis

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