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Truffaut, on the warpath: film critics take the award to court
The Girona Film Critics' Association denounces irregularities in the public competition and accuses the City Council of having dismantled the cultural model that has defined cinema for a quarter of a century.
The crisis surrounding the Girona Truffaut Cinema continues to escalate. The Girona Film Critics' Association, a non-profit organization that promoted the project and has managed its activities for the last twenty-five years, has announced that it will file an appeal before the Catalan Court of Public Sector Contracts against the award of the management of the facility to the private company Rambla de l'Art-Cambrils IAE.
The entity considers that the public competition presents "flagrant irregularities" and questions both the procedure and the final result. Among the aspects it denounces is the fact that a cultural service of public ownership and non-profit purpose has been awarded to a private company. It also focuses on the rules of the competition, which, according to the group, did not guarantee at any time that the programming would be exclusively in the original version, a characteristic that has been the main distinguishing feature of the Truffaut since its creation.
The filing of the administrative appeal now opens a period of uncertainty about the immediate future of the cinema. According to the group, the award could be suspended while the procedure is resolved, which raises questions about the continuity of the activity and the situation of the facility in the coming months.
The announcement comes a few days after the Girona City Council's Governing Board approved, in a vote marked by internal disagreements, the award of management to Rambla de l'Art. For film critics, this decision represents a radical change in the direction of the project and signifies the abandonment of the model with which Truffaut was born: a public cinema, specialized in auteur cinema and committed to showing films in their original version.
In a particularly forceful statement, the group accuses the municipal government of opting for the "commodification and privatization" of a cultural facility that it considers emblematic. It also attributes to the three parties that make up the local executive the political responsibility for having approved the competition rules that, they claim, contradict the discourse they had maintained for years about defending the Truffaut model.
The entity also denounces that its proposal was evaluated arbitrarily and expresses suspicions about possible coincidences between the project presented by Rambla de l'Art and the one that had been developed by the same collective. Despite the situation, it assures that it is keeping the hall open out of responsibility towards the workers and the loyal public that has turned the Truffaut into a cultural reference in Girona.
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