"For a long time, the main criticism of the festival was that it was too dark, too violent, too pessimistic. Unfortunately, we were ahead of our time." With this phrase, Jean-François Leroy, director of Visa pour l'Image, heads this year's festival program. "If you watch television and read the newspapers, you'll see that the world is dark. Our goal is to show the real world. Not princesses, not soccer players: the real world," he tells ARA.