Bayeux · Bayeux Award Calvados-Normandy for War Correspondents
06.10.25 → 12.10.25
Every year for the past 32 years, those who make and follow international news and the many conflicts that shake our planet have gathered in Bayeux.
The biggest names from the biggest newsrooms, the best photographers, but also novice reporters, all direct witnesses to the most important and most anonymous conflicts, press pause in the capital of the Bessin region. 350 professionals gather to shed light on the darkest corners of the planet. They will also ask questions, explain their mission to the general public, reward the best reports and pay tribute to their colleagues who have been imprisoned, disappeared or killed. This year, the jury will be chaired by the renowned reporter Jon Lee Anderson. His American perspective is eagerly awaited in light of recent international events.
On the agenda for this unique event: two film evenings, one on information in the age of algorithms, two evening debates, an awards ceremony, eight new exhibitions, including one outdoors, screenings of documentaries and films, a book fair, live radio broadcasts, round tables, exclusive meetings with reporters and the traditional unveiling of a plaque at the Memorial to Reporters…
THE 2025 PROGRAM – Free admissions
WRITER WAR CORRESPONDENTS > Exhibition – Hôtel du Doyen War is the quintessence of everything, the ultimate literary material. At what point does a newspaper article become insufficient? At what point does a war correspondent feel the need to write differently? Curator: Karen Lajon / Designer: Laurent Hochberg
SUDAN, WAR ON THE ASHES OF REVOLUTION > Exhibition – Bâtiment Four years after the peaceful revolution that led to the fall of dictator Omar Al-Bashir in 2019 and opened a window of hope for the country, Sudan has imploded. Since 15 April 2023, the country has been torn apart and plunged into all-out war… Curator: Eliott Brachet
OUR PATHS TO DAMASCUS > Exhibition – Espace d’art actuel Le Radar All it takes is a few words expressing your opinion next to your painting or photograph, and you’ll find yourself hunted, exiled, or threatened with assassination – and, at best, barred from working. For more than five decades, any ideas that ran counter to the ideology of the al-Assad regime were forbidden; this was a system founded on tyranny, dictatorship, violence, torture, and corruption. Curator: Abdulmonam Eassa & Ghaith Abdul Ahad
SYRIA YEAR 0 > Exhibition – Outside Bayeux After more than ten years of war, Syria enters 2025 in a period of uncertain transition. Bashar al-Assad’s regime has collapsed, leaving behind a country in ruins: more than 580,000 dead, 100,000 missing and 13 million displaced or refugees. Photographs by Édouard Elias
GOMA, THE TURNING POINT > Exhibition – Musée d’Art et d’Histoire BAron Gérard At the end of January 2025, following a lightning offensive, Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), fell to the armed group M23… Photographs by Philémon Barbier, Daniel Buuma, Alexis Huguet / AFP, Hugh Kinsella Cunningham, Michel Lunanga, Jospin Mwisha, Moses Sawasawa
WAR IS PERSONAL > Exhibition – Galerie Medusa War Is Personal is a multimedia experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war, created and lived through by Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Kochetova. Documentary photography is mixed with poetry, electronic music, sketches, and real war objects – to make you see, hear, touch, and feel war.. Curator: Julia Kochetova
GAZA PROJECT > Exhibition – Espace Culturel E. Leclerc Since 7 October 2023, more than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, making this conflict the deadliest for the press in decades. Curator: Forbidden Stories
YEMEN CONTRAFLOW > Exhibition – Les 7 Lieux Between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, the stretch of water separating the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula represents a microcosm of today’s worldwide flows of human traffic. No other place on earth has witnessed more cycles of conflict, forcing so many people into successive rotations in such a small space. Curator: Alixandra Fazzina
Movie Screening > THE FOURTH WALL – by David Oelhoffen / Cinéma Le Méliès (admission 7,50€) Movie Screening > PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK – by Sepideh Farsi / Cinéma Le Méliès (admission 7,50€) Discussion Evening > SOCIAL MEDIA AND (MIS)INFORMATION / Halle ô Grains Evening Screening > INSIDE GAZA – by Hélène Lam Trong / Pavillon Special correspondent’s reception – SCAM > IRAN: 12 DAYS OF WAR, BUT 46 YEARS OF CONFLICT / Pavillon Honorary Awards > AWARD CEREMONY / Pavillon (Booking required at prixbayeux.org) Screening > TRAINS AND WARD – by Emmanuel Carrère & Lucas Menget / Halle ô Grains Screening > THE GHOSTS OF UKRAINE – by Anne Poiret, produced by Squawk & After War, France Télévisions – PREMIERE / Halle ô Grains Screening > AFGHANISTAN: WOMEN’S IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY – by Marine Courtade & Mortaza Behboudi, Arte Reportage, produced by Kraken Films – PREMIERE / Halle ô Grains Screening > 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA – by Mstyslav Chernov – PREMIERE / Pavillon Screening > VOICES OF HUMANITY – by UE – PREMIERE / Pavillon Screening > THE STRINGER – FRENCH PREMIERE / Pavillon Reporter’s Memorial > 2024-2025 COMMEMORATIVE STONE / Mémorial des reporters Forbbiden Stories round table > VIKTORIIA PROJECT / Halle ô Grains MSF Round Table > A WORLD WITHOUT RULES: JOURNALISTS AND HUMANITARIAN WORKERS ON THE FRONT LINE / Halle ô Grains After War Round Table > THE DISAPPEARED: GHOSTS OF THE POST-WAR PERIOD / Halle ô Grains Amnesty International Round table > GENOCIDE IN GAZA: HOW FAR WILL ISRAEL’S IMPUNITY GO? / Halle ô Grains Meetings > Abdulmonam Eassa, Eliott Brachet, Karen Lajon / Halle ô Grains – Online Registration The Nikon Encounters > ELEVASION – BY Edouard Elias & Charles-Henry Frizon Forum > MEDIA FORUM / Espace Saint-Patrice Book Fair > BOOK FAIR / Pavillon Student Actions > Regional Prize for students and trainees of Normandy / The Bayeux-Normandy Award Classes / Screenings / Gaze into the mind of 15 year olds / Inter’Act Tour / Workshop / Meetings
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