Limouzi Film Festival
A film festival dedicated to rural life at the Château de Brie
2026
About Limouzi Film Festival
The Limouzi Film Fest brings cinema to the Château de Brie in Champagnac-la-Rivière, centered on a single theme: the countryside as seen through the lens. Featuring fiction, documentaries, and animated films from France and abroad, the festival showcases rural life beyond the usual clichés and headlines.
The festival is organized by Tout Va Bien Production, a Bordeaux-based association that has been producing and distributing socially engaged documentary cinema since 2000. They previously toured short films through villages with fewer than 200 inhabitants as part of their "Allons z'à la campagne" initiative. Screenings are accompanied by discussions with directors, documentary filmmakers, and researchers, with an audience vote held after each session.
Limouzi Film Festival — edition 2026
For its first edition, the Limouzi Film Festival will screen 30 films across 12 sessions at the Château de Brie on October 10th and 11th. Fiction, documentaries, and animated films will portray the countryside beyond the usual postcards. Kate Beecroft, director of The New West, is the patron, and Naira will open the festival.
Highlights Limouzi Film Festival 2026
- Opening film Naira, Saturday at 10:00 AM
- National premiere of TAMA by Mano Pailhès, Saturday at 3:00 PM
- Three talks: media perspective on the countryside, the documentary profession, and night in rural areas
- Closing film Ride or Die, Sunday at 3:45 PM, followed by the awards ceremony at 5:30 PM
- Festival village, guinguette, and sound piece printemps // chorale
- Kate Beecroft, director of The New West, patron of the first edition
Programme Limouzi Film Festival 2026
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
- 9:45 AM–7:00 PM — Site opens, festival village, refreshments and food · Château de Brie
- 10:00 AM — Opening film: Naira, by Gabriela Quiroz (96 min, Peru, original language with French subtitles, drama)
- 11:45 AM — "Of Tractors and Men" screening: Reboule (Joris Henne, 11 min, French); Artzain soil (Lucie Francini and Sabina Hourcade, 1h07, French)
- 1:15 PM — "To Our Loves" screening: Clair-obscur (Léa Deslandes, 43 min, French); Maurice (Noé Hermelin and Thomas Sagot, 23 min, French); A break-up (in parts) (Lasse Holdhus, 19 min, Norway, original language with French subtitles)
- 2:30 PM — Talk: "Who tells the story of the countryside today?" with journalist Emma Conquet and sociologist Claire Rochoux
- 3:00 PM — National premiere: TAMA, by Mano Pailhès (62 min, documentary, original language with French subtitles)
- 4:10 PM — "The Folks Next Door" screening: Franck (Fabio Caldironi, 19 min); Oasis (Carl Lionnet, 11 min); RAL 4011 (Anthony Gandais, 12 min); Les champs (Caroline Tillette, 8 min); Zohra sans permis (Pierre-Loup Docteur, 20 min); La robe rouge (Manon Poudoulec, 6 min) — all in French
- 4:30 PM — Talk: "Being a documentary filmmaker, quite an adventure" with Mano Pailhès and documentary filmmaker Sarah Antonelli
- 5:30 PM — "Memories of the Countryside" screening: Où es-tu, mon ami ? (Charles Grzybowski, 28 min, France-Bosnia, original language with French subtitles); Un souffle de liberté (Pierre Frink, 50 min, France)
Sunday, October 11th, 2026
- 8:45 AM–6:00 PM — Site opens, festival village, refreshments and food · Château de Brie
- 9:00 AM — Early bird screening: Okmulgee Invitational (Adam James Smith, 45 min, USA, documentary, original language with French subtitles)
- 10:00 AM — "Simply Together" screening: Bowl de campagne (Olivier Lambert, 20 min); Syndrome solitaire (Pierre Villemin, 30 min); Nos nuits du samedi (au dimanche) (Lucie Piquot, 16 min) — documentaries, French
- 11:20 AM — "Youthful Dreams" screening: Biche (Yoann Hébert, 12 min, French); Grace (Sara Burris Hersh and Jay Galloway, 18 min, USA, original language with French subtitles); Greenhouse (George Georgakopoulos, 18 min, Greece, original language with French subtitles); 14 ans, copines & liberté (Axelle Revilliod-Hansen, 23 min, French)
- 12:50 PM — "The Song of the World" screening: Êtres de lisière (Emeline Lefebvre, 19 min); Dzud, le souffle des steppes (Josephine Tomat, Philippine Barth and Clarisse Bonnet, 33 min, France-Mongolia); J'ai égaré les ombres (Appoline Oudot, Sydney Gellé and Victor Roghe, 39 min) — documentaries
- 2:00 PM — Talk: "Night in rural areas" with ethnographer Esther Chevreau Damour and Frédéric Dupuy, Deputy Director of the PNR Périgord-Limousin
- 2:25 PM — "Over the Rainbow" screening: Des doigts en or (Chryssa Florou, 6 min); Plein la vue (Damien Narcy, 21 min); IUS du Temps (Roberto F. Canuto, 26 min, Spain, original language with French subtitles); Je vois l'obscurité (Domingo Pisón, 12 min, Spain, original language with French subtitles)
- 3:45 PM — Closing film: Ride or Die, by Josalynn Smith (95 min, USA, original language with French subtitles, drama)
- 5:30 PM — Awards ceremony (jury, jury's favorite, audience award) in the presence of the jury members
All weekend
- Festival village: local artisans, artists, authors, publishers, producers, and associations; guinguette with local producers and food trucks
- Esker Tent: printemps // chorale, sound piece by Sarah Antonelli (listening for 2 to 4 people max)
- The art nOmad association van at the festival village, all day Sunday, October 11th
- Audience Award: spectator voting after each screening
Program published by the organizer (September 2026 PDF and festival website). Screenings are in French or original language with French subtitles (VOSTFR) as indicated.
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