reprennent un découpage

19:07 Mar 9, 2021 

my comment about

What about THE WHOLE SENTENCE? ...

wasn't addressed at you - couldn't be as you rightly sensed that in your text "découpage" could well be something else than "le découpage d'un film", although the whole text is about movies (otherwise you wouldn't have asked this question).

09:00 Mar 9, 2021 

I don't know why you are sticking to croess-section, which (in the absence of corroboration from the wider context) has no place here whatsoever, I feel.
Likewise, I would want more context to know if these 'sections' are in fact what we would normally refer to as 'categories' in a film festival; they could be... but equally might not...
But yes, that slant of emphasis is, I think, the intention here: there is nothing surprising about a film festival having geographical sections, but the idea they are also to some extent based on something more subjective like 'imagination' is perhaps a novel idea... or at least, a less common combination. I'm sure your wider context makes all this crystal clear!

08:55 Mar 9, 2021 

Yes, that's exactly the say I see it.

08:53 Mar 9, 2021 

OK, yes, thanks for the pointer.

08:51 Mar 9, 2021 

"...the sections of which are as much based on/defined by imagination?/fancy? as they are on/by geography:..."?

08:43 Mar 9, 2021 

So, Perhaps?
"The film was presented at the QCinema festival in Quezon City, offering a cross section of not only geographic categories, but equally of fantasy-based ones: there was..."
OR
"...The film was presented at the QCinema festival in Quezon City, offering a cross section of categories spanning, not only geographic, but equally fantasy-based: there are the Ilonggo

08:19 Mar 9, 2021 

I wouldn't necessarily say an equal balance — rather, that the balance may sometimes be the opposite of what we'd expect in EN.
One particular example comes to mind: an old colleague wrote of some scientist or other: « Elle est aussi intelligente que belle », which on the face of it I took to be a not-atypical male chauvinist remarks: "Perhaps surprisingly, she's intelligent as well as beautiful!" When I asked him about his intended nuance here, he was horrified: "Oh no, quite the reverse!" His intended meaning was "She is not only beautiful, but equally intelligent." I think the change of word order between FR and EN can sometimes change the 'slant'.

07:59 Mar 9, 2021 

Yes, thanks, I see that now. You are saying that there is an equal balance between the two that is being highlighted here.

22:50 Mar 8, 2021 

Just musing about this construction in FR: « aussi... que... »
In many past experiences of this term, I've noted what I have felt to be an inversion of the terms between FR and EN; sadly, due to the way this type of expression is often used, it's not often possible to tell for sure, unless there are clues in the surrounding context. But I think this might be one such case: I think the writer may be saying that the breakdown into sections is (surprisingly) as based on imagination / fantasy as it is (logically) based on geography — a reversal of the 2 ideas compared with the FR. I think this does, however, make it easier for us to see the reason for this remark.
I wonder what others think of my observation?

18:07 Mar 8, 2021 

I referred to the other meanings of "decoupage" to deter people from referring to previous Kudoz entries (as they sometimes do when they are not relevant), which I have looked through. This was one of the examples I found. As my question states: "but it also has many other meanings" !

12:14 Mar 8, 2021 

Thanks for all corrections' pointers etc

10:41 Mar 8, 2021 

"since découpage is a cinematic term, it would be nice to preserve that in the translation!"


Why would you want to "preserve" a NON-EXISTING meaning of a term as used in the ST???

There well may be a term "découpage" used to describe the process of making a movie, but if you bother to read the whole sentence:

Le film était présenté au festival QCinema de Quezon City dont les sections reprennent un découpage aussi géographique qu'imaginaire: ...

it's crystal clear that in this sentence - the relevant one / the one to actually translate "découpage" relates to "festival QCinema de Quezon City dont les sections ...".

No one is cutting and rearranging pieces of filmed material during a film festival!

Context is some kind of dirty word?

06:20 Mar 8, 2021 

I think it would make more sense to translate the whole phrase, "un découpage aussi géographique qu'imaginaire". And since découpage is a cinematic term, it would be nice to preserve that in the translation.

00:17 Mar 8, 2021 

i.e. the use of "(les sections) reprennent" it would rather be the other way around:

sections (of the festival) follow some already existing way of making geographical divisions, not that sections define some new way of making geographical divisions.

23:59 Mar 7, 2021 

It's Filipino rather than Filipine.

23:44 Mar 7, 2021 

with sections that define geographic as well as fantasy-based categories...?