For the first weekend of October, join the latest edition of the Mouans-Sartoux book festival featuring many prestigious guests, film screenings, concerts, and activities throughout the three days. Numerous debates, conferences, and screenings will address this year’s theme: The Other as Myself.
Once again this year, there are many activities on the program for this 28th festival, which remains rich in content, open to the world, cultures, and anchored in current events.
Finally considering the other as another human being, simply, will be the central theme, The Other as Myself, which will allow the exploration of many topics: fraternity, equality, the hope for peace, freedom…
Among the attending authors, you will find the honorary president Edgar Morin, a sociologist and philosopher, author of the famous The Method, along with Didier Van Cauwelaert, Cynthia Fleury, Daniel Pennac as guests of honor, as well as Amélie Nothomb, Yasmina Khadra, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Gérard Chaliand, Alice Zeniter, Marek Halter, Bernard Werber, Laurent Seksik, Régine Detambel, Edwy Plenel, Pinar Selek, Christophe Galfard, Malek Chebel, Louise Desbrusses, Geneviève Azam, Frédéric Boyer, Michèle Freud, Karine Giebel, Roland Gori, Fouad Laroui, Roger Lenglet, Philippe Meirieu, Valentin Musso…
The publishing house Robert Laffont and Glénat, the comic book specialist, will be highlighted on the publishers’ side.
The Book Festival is also more than 8,000 m2 of books, novels, essays, comics, youth, poetry, art, regional books, ancient books; and over 60,000 visitors from the entire PACA region.
Around the societal questions that animate today’s world, you will find debates, conferences, and interviews throughout the weekend, a small sample of the planned events:
– Friday, October 2, 10 am, debate on Eco-responsible Printing; at 5 pm, Amélie Nothomb’s book signing for her novel The Crime of Count Nevile; at 6 pm, screening of Our Mothers, Our Daronnes by Bouchera Azzouz and Marion Stalens, followed by a debate with the directors.
– Saturday, October 3, 10 am, debate Together, What Vision for the School?; 11:30 am, interview with Patrick Pelloux, The Last Days of Great Men; 12:30 pm, interview The French Riviera as Seen by Jean Giletta; 4 pm, interview The Chauvet Cave; 5:30 pm, screening of An Armenian Story by Robert Guédiguian followed by a debate with the director and Ariane Ascaride.
– Sunday, October 4, 10 am, debate on A New Economy, Sharing?; at 3:30 pm, interview Literature, a Place of Resistance?; at 5:30 pm, premiere screening of the new film Ice and the Sky by Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins, The Fox and the Child).