Summer will continue in September with Rencontres à la campagne a few kilometers from Villefranche-de-Rouergue. An event that refreshes the entire area.
The 25th edition of Rencontres à la campagne will take place from 3 to 11 September in Rieupeyroux. President Guy Bizet advocates “a collective adventure that, over 25 years, will follow without weakening, and its path imposes on the municipality and then on the territory of the commune a real cultural dynamic around cinema” by specifying “and we can congratulate ourselves on that but it seems important to us that we find all Festival goers! Again this year the program is rich and eclectic without any particular theme with many films that we love and choices we have made for a long time such as Iranian cinema (with a hard-working family), Lebanese, Portuguese, Italian…”
In the heart of the seventh art and the region
Highlights will permeate these nine days dedicated to the seventh art. Focus on the great director Pier Paolo Pasolini on the occasion of the centenary of his birth (the 2022 visual created by Sebastian Buscus, painter of youth, refers to the Gospel according to Saint Mateo shown on September 9), in honor of Guy Cavagnac, Renoir’s assistant and independent filmmaker in partnership with Cinema Toulouse, the participation of the Institut Occitane Aveyron through Nils Martin’s film “La Linga d’Aféroda” produced as part of Operation Pais (collection of testimonies on the Occitan language in the Sigala region) … Njac film director Jean-Henri Meunier will attend the screening of his documentary “Smoothie” Plus other directors. And always check out: “Sans Filtre” by Robin Ostlund, the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, “107 Moms” by Peter Kereks … and also a youth program (tea party – cinema with three short films, etc.), which is CinE-S-Ages For the elderly followed by a workshop and many other films for young filmmakers to discover, some of which are unseen, unclassifiable and may surprise, upset or excite!
