Comics move beyond the printed page at A Tours de Bulles in Tours. Meetings and signing sessions bring readers face to face with authors, while exhibitions offer another way to encounter their visual worlds. Performances, screenings and participatory activities widen the festival’s programme, connecting the culture of the bande dessinée with other forms of storytelling.
Tag: Cinema
Microfolie Vesoul: Art and Origines Symphonic
Digital collections in Vesoul trace the crafts of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Nouvelle-Aquitaine’s art and landscapes. “Tales and Fantasy” pairs paintings, sculptures and books, while National Collection #1 draws on the Louvre, Versailles and Centre Pompidou. A screening of “Origines Symphonic” features accordionist Stéphane Farge, his quartet and the Limoges Opera Symphony Orchestra.
Terre-Neuve, Canada: Des histoires de fierté
Lynda Paquette and Martin Parent explore Newfoundland through encounters with fishermen, artists, writers and keepers of local traditions. Their documentary follows the island’s layered history, including Basque and Breton fishing connections. Music, cod fishing and marine wildlife sit alongside the experiences of the people they meet.
Le mobilier breton en fête in Baud
Le mobilier breton en fête brings Breton furniture into a programme of film, storytelling and reuse in Baud. A screening and a storytelling walk sit alongside a tour and a sale of furniture at modest prices. Upcycling is also on the programme, with food and refreshments available during the gathering.
Ciné Sand Conference in Sainte-Sévère: George Sand’s Legacy
Ciné Sand examines George Sand’s relationship with cinema at Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre. Claire Le Guillou, author of George Sand Superstar, contributes to the discussion. The conference accompanies CinéSand, an exhibition considering adaptations of Sand’s novels, films about her life and the actresses who have portrayed her on screen.
Mauprat Cine-Concert
This cine-concert pairs Jean Epstein’s silent film Mauprat with a new live musical interpretation rooted in George Sand’s Berry. Adapted from her novel and filmed around Sainte-Sévère and Nohant, the story follows Bernard de Mauprat from brigandage toward his decisive encounter with the courageous Edmée. Its romantic plot carries a feminist current through Edmée’s influence and moral resolve. Gilles Chabenat plays electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy, joined by Nicolas Mingot on acoustic and electric guitars and Yannick Hardouin on bass guitar and piano. Popular musical forms meet contemporary textures, allowing the landscape, drama and social tensions of Sand’s narrative to acquire a vivid second voice within a story born directly from Berry itself.
Hommage à George Sand
Noirlac’s tribute approaches George Sand through several forms, moving beyond a single commemorative address. A visit follows the trace of Prosper Mérimée, whose friendship with the writer opens a window onto her intellectual circle. Gilles Chabenat and fellow musicians then enter the world of Mauprat through a film-concert inspired by Sand’s novel, joining moving image, live sound and literary adaptation. A republican banquet with readings by the Paroles Publiques association extends the program into collective speech and shared table culture. Within the Cistercian abbey, these elements connect correspondence, fiction, cinema and civic ideals without flattening them into biography. The result situates Sand’s work in Berry while showing how her writing continues to move between page, performance and public life.
Marie-Antoinette Screening
A2c and RegArts include Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette in a festival programme focused on women and cinema. Kirsten Dunst plays the Austrian archduchess sent to France to marry the future Louis XVI, with Jason Schwartzman appearing as the dauphin who becomes king. The film treats its subject freely, following the young royal’s passage from Vienna to Versailles and the pressures surrounding marriage, court life and succession. Coppola’s production competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and received an award from the French Ministry of Education. Presented at the Megarama cinema in Chalon-sur-Saône, the screening places a modern interpretation of a prominent European woman within a regional cultural programme, connecting historical biography, performance and film authorship for local audiences.
La Grande Vadrouille Bike Heritage Tour
Two guides lead a cycle route from Beaune to Meursault through locations associated with La Grande Vadrouille. The ride passes plots belonging to the Domaine des Hospices de Beaune and stops at the film’s Kommandantur before returning along the greenway. Visits to the Hôtel-Dieu connect the filming locations with the hospital’s buildings, and bicycles and helmets are provided.
Breton Summer Culture at Camping d’Aleth
Camping d’Aleth presents a varied cultural programme beside the chateau pond at Saint-Malo-de-Beignon. Breton music and dance share the setting with harp-led storytelling walks, spoken tales, live concerts, outdoor cinema and activities inspired by nature and prehistory. The mix gives campers and local visitors several ways to meet regional culture, from collective movement and oral tradition to performances shaped by the wooded waterside surroundings.