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Ivan
Cooper
(Festival de Gand, octobre 2002)
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Ivan Cooper n'est ni acteur, ni réalisateur...
Il est l'organisateur d'une marche pacifique pour l'égalité
des droits entre catholiques et protestants, farouchement déterminé
à éviter toute violence entre les différents
protagonistes. Cette manifestation se transforme en émeute:
treize personnes sont tuées par l'armée.
Cette manifestation a eu lieu le 30 janvier 1972, un dimanche connu
depuis comme le "Bloody Sunday", qui marque le début
de la guerre civile en Irlande du Nord.
Ivan Cooper est venu présenter le film Bloody
Sunday au Festival International du Film de Flandres, à
Gand en octobre 2002.
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"The
Bloody Sunday film was shown at the Flanders Film Festival
in Ghent. I had the pleasure of attending this showing and
of observing the audience as they arrived at the theatre.
I was particularly impressed with the number of young people
who attended this showing. There are important lessons to
be learned from "Bloody Sunday" from an international
prespective. I feel that young people in many countries shoudl
look at conflict resolution from the lessons to be learned
from Bloody Sunday.
I am most grateful to the Belgian distributor of Bloody Sunday
for buying this film. I am anxious to have it seen by as wide
an audience as possible. It is a film about a day which I
beleive changed the course of Irish history. It is also a
film about the failure of a democratic western government
to accept responsibility for the illegal actions of its army.
The film was made by a British director and produced by another
Briton. It has been made with great integrity and I commend
it tot the people of Belgium. I understand that the film will
be on release from January next and it is my hope that many
thousands of you will do so.
I have greatly enjoyed my visit to Ghent to the Film Festival.
I want to thank all who have contributed to making me feel
welcome."
Ivan
Cooper
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