From Khartoum to Santiago, from Beirut to Hong-Kong, from Algiers to the Champs-Elysées: for a year and a half, human waves have been sweeping the streets and squares, like on television or smartphone screens. The images do not just bear witness to these gatherings: because these new ephemeral peoples are filmed and filmed, fictionalised and fictionalised by others, their images act as so many links and relays.

Take the measure of the crowd that populates our eyes today: this is what this fifteenth edition of Hors-Pistes, festival dedicated each year to explore moving images and meet those who make it the subject of their creation, their thought or their writing.