Cécile Juan goes to Japan, with Damien Véron, looking for Tiphaine Véron

In all audiences of Monday, June 23, 2025, the increase in the prize for festivals tickets explained by Malika Seguineau, director general of the Ekhoscenes employers’ union and “the wet air”, a documentary by Cécile Juan on the disappearance of Tiphaine Véron.

Solidays, Hellfest, We Love Green… If the month of June marks the opening of summer festivals, the 2020s are synonymous with a significant increase in the prices of their tickets. About 60% over the past ten years, according to a newspaper survey The world.

A “very substantial increase in all spending stations “ from the COVIR19 as well as “costs linked to increasingly difficult regulations to apply in festivals, or even completely inapplicable” are among the undeniable causes of this increase. “The only adjustment variable” Festivals facing this inflation, according to Malika Seguineau, Managing Director of a employers’ union representing private festivals: “The price of the pass and the tickets “.

“Today, some artists are starting to say that festivals are no longer profitable enough and that they prefer to go see their fans community in a large room.”

Malika Seguineau

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Despite this increase, ever greater headliners and “Reception conditions having progressed a lot” During French festivals, the latter remain in direct competition with their European counterparts who “do not have the same economic model” by swelling sometimes “Their budgets by establishing partnerships with brands of alcohol or cigarettes”. Result : “Even if in 2024 we were able to observe a very important attendance, this year, many festivals accuse a lot of delay in ticket sales”.

If the various actors continue to “Work on the evolution of the festival object”Malika Seguineau specifies at the microphone of all audiences that the sector “cannot expect everything from the state” While a consultation launched in January with the Ministry of Culture should make its conclusions during the summer.

The wet air, a documentary looking for Tiphaine Véron

No pathos in The wet air of Cécile Juan. In this documentary, the director and childhood friend of Tiphaine Véron, a French tourist who disappeared during a trip to Japan in 2018, accompanies Damien Véron, brother of the disappeared, in one of her trips to the city of Nikko in the footsteps of her sister.

“What is terrible in a disappearance is that you will always have the impression that each part of the surroundings where Tiphaine could have been gone has not been verified.”

Damien Véron

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This type of expedition, Damien Véron has been one per year for seven years and “Fights each year because the Japanese judicial system does not allow there to be an investigation that is open (…). What is very special in Japan is that the investigation starts when the person was arrested so that’s why there has never been an open criminal investigation”.

“It’s a hymn of love”: in a documentary, director Cécile Juan, follows from the inside the fight of the family of Tiphaine Véron

This investigation, the family therefore had to conduct it itself, through several round trips between France and Japan but also by insisting with the authorities of the two countries before being, today, supported by the UN.“But all that is long, it’s money and therefore a lot of investment. These are very long and very painful trips”, explains Damien Véron at the microphone of all audiences.

“In the film, it was really this quest for absolute truth that I wanted to show, which is that of so many families of missing and in particular missing abroad.”

Cecile Juan

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It is this void and this loneliness felt by the family of Tiphaine after his disappearance evidenced by The wet air. For Cécile Juan, the objective was clear: to give “A look from the inside, be in their footsteps and in the intimate through them”. Through different scenes, from the move of the young woman’s apartment on the spot, Cécile Juan gives an overview of the “Force that (she) admires a lot and who finds herself in many missing families”. If Damien Véron sometimes admits “Forgot to be sad”On the other hand, he does not miss the memory of his sister, a statue of which will be unveiled in Nikko on July 29, seven years to the day after his disappearance.

The wet airof Cécile Juan and with Damien Véron, to view here.

A program with the participation of Yann Bertrand, journalist in the Franceinfo Culture Service.