Presentation 

Marcynéma Association

The Marcynéma association runs viewing sessions reserved for members and has organized for over 55 years an annual film event, the "Rencontre Cinéma de Marcigny" (Marcigny Film Meeting).

Marcynéma meetings 

Since the foundation in 1971 of the “Rencontre” , we have successfully brought together enthusiasts and moviegoers, high school students and students, the general public and professionals of the 7th art, with the opportunity of discovering excellent world classic films and rare films from a large library of restored Heritage film copies.

Marcigny Heritage films Meeting is the oldest of its type situated in a rural setting; it was directed by Paul Jeunet until 2018. Paul was an initiator and artistic director in audiovisual art for our annual meetings, he was also the cousin of Jean-Pierre Jeunet who was one of the directors of the association from the outset.

Since the beginning of the Heritage films Meetings in Marcigny journalists, critics, film distributors, directors, film heritage curators... have each year contributed to the success of the event.

The films are presented in the Vox Cinema in Marcigny, which was originally an Ursuline convent Chapel of the Charolais-Brionnais region. In parallel to the film meeting the Marcynéma exhibits bills/posters in various historic monuments around the town, in shops, restaurants and museums. An exhibition of contemporary photographs, film archives, a theatrical show, a concert or a cinema concert, debates... often accompanies the event.

We can dream about the future of Heritage, because it’s already our Present (1).

Marcynéma invites you to experience this our Present during the “Rencontre”. A journey across French and foreign filmographies: Belgium, United Kingdom, Iran, Mexico, United States...
A foray into different genres: drama, comedy, thriller, detective, romance, fantasy, western...
A journey through four decades: the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Revisit films that have left their mark on the history of cinema, in original versions and restored prints.
Rediscover our favorite Heritage 35mm trailers and advertisements. All this while enjoying large screen projection conditions.
For us, it's always a pleasure to enhance experience or/and relive some great cinema moments.

(1)  Alexis Hyaumet, founder of the quarterly heritage film news magazine.

Report on the 55th Meeting

🎬 Program of the 55th Meeting : An Eclectic Lineup

Line-up

The Marcigny Film Meeting (Rencontre cinéma de Marcigny) will take place on October 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27, 2026, at the Vox Cinema. This year, it shines a spotlight on French and Belgian cinema, while offering a notable foray into Taiwan and occasional escapes to Sweden, Norway, Senegal, and the USA.

"The Rencontres de Marcigny are one of those very rare places in France where, for four or five days, people gather in a cinema to watch 'old' films. To talk about them a little, and mostly, to enjoy them."

Béatrice de Pastre, in Souvenirs de cinéma, 2021

Guests 

BÉATRICE DE PASTRE

Director of Collections at the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée), Béatrice de Pastre takes part in the program to preserve and restore films held by heritage film institutions. She is also a teacher, programmer, and author of books and articles devoted to cinematic and photographic heritage. For the past ten years she has supported Marcynéma's activities by taking part in the Rencontres and organizing annual workshops. The 2025 Festival Lumière awarded her the Prix Fabienne Vonier, which honors a woman from the film industry; she thus succeeds Anna Marsh, CEO of Studiocanal.

JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAGUIONIE

Born in 1939 in Besançon, Jean-François Laguionie first discovered theater and the visual arts. A meeting with Paul Grimault, a pioneer of animated cinema in France, led him to experiment in this field. From his very first short films, he won prestigious international awards, including a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Settling in the Gard region, he embarked in 1979 on the collective venture of "La Fabrique," an essential incubator for independent animated cinema in France. He has since gone on to make feature films. Pursuing a demanding and personal body of work, he continues today to practice an art of animated storytelling steeped in painting and poetry.

JEAN-JACQUES ANDRIEN

Born in 1944 in Verviers (Belgium), Jean-Jacques Andrien is the director-producer of six of his seven films. He founded a production company in 1973, Les Films de la Drève, to shoot his first feature film: Le Fils d'Amr est mort! He also produced Lucas Belvaux's first feature film, Parfois trop d'amour, and all of Yasmine Kassari's films. He taught for many years at INSAS, and at the universities of Lille and Brussels. While Jean-Jacques Andrien deals with social and political issues, not only those related to rural life, he never does so by confining the viewer within a thesis-driven film. On the contrary, his entire art lies in an approach to reality captured in all its complexity, in all its harshness and poetry, the two being inseparable.

SYLVIE DIDERON

An agronomist and socio-economist, Sylvie Dideron has lived and worked in rural China as well as other Asian countries since 1987. Committed for nearly half a century to family and smallholder farming and to the preservation of ecosystems, she captures through photography the transformations of the Chinese countryside.

ÉRIC FAVRELIÈRE

Éric Favrelière discovered China during a first trip in July-August 1986. Until 2002, he continued traveling there regularly, always with a camera in hand. Having settled in Beijing that same year as a teacher, he continued photographing the city and its changes, as well as the rural world in southern China, particularly in the provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan, until November 2021.

ANIK LE RAY

Anik Le Ray is an author of tales as well as a screenwriter and dialogue writer for animated cinema. Her work, aimed at both young people and adults, draws on legends as well as literature and art history. She has collaborated closely with Jean-François Laguionie since 1999, sharing with him a common taste for handcrafted animation and stories that explore time, memory, and identity.

JACQUES LEMIÈRE

A teacher at the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology (1989-2019) and a researcher at the CLERSE-CNRS laboratory at the University of Lille, he developed a course on "Cinema and Ethnology" and conducted research on cinema, particularly Portuguese cinema and documentary film. He is currently preparing a book on Jean-Jacques Andrien's rural trilogy set in the bocage of the Pays de Herve.

Program - Lists of movies

Friday, October 23

Taiwanese New Wave(s)

Three major figures

• 2:00 PM | The Boys from Fengkuei (Fengkuei lai de ren)

  • Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan - 1983 - 1h40 - French subtitles)

  • Cast: Shih Chang, Doze Niu…

  • In a peaceful island village, idle teenagers spend their time getting into fights and committing petty thefts. When an affair goes wrong, they are forced to leave for the big city to look for work…

  • A deeply personal film, inspired by the director's own youth. It won the Golden Montgolfiere (Montgolfière d’or) at the Nantes Three Continents Festival in 1984.

• 4:30 PM | The Terrorizers (Kongbu fenzi)

  • Director: Edward Yang (Taiwan - 1986 - 1h49 - French subtitles)

  • Cast: Gu Bao-ming, Wang An…

  • In Taipei, three couples—a photographer and his girlfriend, a female delinquent and her accomplice, a novelist and her husband—cross paths, meet, love, leave, tear each other apart, and forget one another...

  • This film shows ordinary beings who, through simple gestures, fracture the lives of others. Edward Yang attempts to define the margin of freedom each person possesses to change their life.

• 8:45 PM | Rebels of the Neon God (Ching chon che nian ching)

  • Director: Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan - 1992 - 1h46 - French subtitles)

  • Cast: Lee Kang-sheng, Tien Miao…

  • Hsiao-kang spends his time wandering the streets of Taipei, on foot or on a moped. One day, he notices a young man on a motorbike. This triggers a progressive fascination in Hsiao-kang for the young man and his girlfriend…

  • This film is a dive into the confusion of an adolescent mind. It is revealing of Taiwanese society by reconstructing the bustling yet strangely peaceful life of the capital.

Saturday, October 24

Jean-Jacques Andrien: A Concern for Reality

★ In his presence

• 9:30 AM | Mémoires

  • Director: Jean-Jacques Andrien (Belgium - 1984 – 55 min — Documentary)

  • Against a backdrop of political and cultural dispossession, the inhabitants of Fouron-le-Comte, a French-speaking village annexed to a Flemish region, confront Flemish ultra-nationalists.

  • Selected at the Venice Film Festival and the Montreal New Cinema Festival, the film won the Golden Ducat from the international jury at the Mannheim International Film Festival in 1984.

• 2:00 PM | Il a plu sur le grand paysage

  • Director: Jean-Jacques Andrien (France - 2014 - 1h40 — Documentary)

  • Farmers in eastern Belgium fight for their own survival and that of their culture, which is threatened with extinction.

  • "Fathers and sons joined in the hope of passing down the land, husbands and wives harnessed to the same exhausting task [...] have not given up, but they measure better than anyone else the difficulty of maintaining their activity face to the rising cost of necessary investments." — Arnaud Schwartz, La Croix, 05/14/2014

• 4:30 PM | Le Fils d’Amr est mort (Amr's Son Is Dead)

  • Director: Jean-Jacques Andrien (Belgium - 1975 - 1h20)

  • Cast: Pierre Clémenti, Claire Wauthion…

  • A young man from Brussels loses his job and falls into delinquency. After the death of his accomplice, he travels to Tunisia to discover his past.

  • "This film is a look [...] at people and the world. Racism, lack of communication, complicity, immigration—there is a fresh approach in this film that does not seek to impose interpretations on us, but rather to provoke reflection." — Henri Roanne, Brussels, 1980

• 8:45 PM | Australia

  • Director: Jean-Jacques Andrien (Belgium - 1988 - 2h18)

  • Cast: Jeremy Irons, Fanny Ardant…

  • Edouard returns to Belgium in 1955 after fleeing to Australia during World War II. He leaves behind his twelve-year-old daughter.

  • "Andrien highlights the difficulties of expression, those words that are never quite at the level of the intensity of the emotions, those padlocked feelings that brutally burst out in fits of sincerity." — Fernand Denis, Le Soir, October 1980

Sunday, October 25

Marceline Loridan: Filming to Bear Witness

Day presented by Béatrice de Pastre

• 9:30 AM | 17e Parallèle : La Guerre du peuple (17th Parallel: Vietnam in War)

  • Directors: Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Joris Ivens (France, Vietnam - 1968 - 1h53 — Documentary)

  • 1954 – 1975: In Vietnam, a fratricidal war between the communist North and the pro-Western South involves the United States, which faces resistance from the populations of the North. Dutch filmmaker and communist sympathizer Joris Ivens and his wife Marceline Loridan surround themselves with Vietnamese camera operators to film the daily lives of peasants holed up in caves, driven by the unshakeable conviction that they will defeat the enemy.

• 2:00 PM | Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (How Yukong Moved the Mountains)

  • Directors: Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Joris Ivens (France - 1976 - 12h45 — Documentary)

  • 1966 – 1976: In the People's Republic of China, to reinforce his power, Mao Zedong imposes his Cultural Revolution, which will have an international impact. How Yukong Moved the Mountains brings together a series of twelve films made in different regions of China between 1972 and 1974. This screening will feature one of these twelve films, which constitute an important historical testimony to this decade of collectivization and nationalization.

• 4:30 PM | Chronique d'un été (Chronicle of a Summer)

  • Directors: Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin (France - 1961 - 1h25 — Documentary)

  • Paris, summer 1960: Parisians share testimonies about their daily lives by addressing various themes: love, work, leisure, culture, racism…

  • "Witness-cinema, observation-cinema. Neo-cinema. [...] New Wave cinema? No: raw cinema. A way of capturing an era, honestly, scientifically [...] an attitude, behavior, and a moment in the life of French people." — Jeander, Libération, 11/02/1960

• 8:45 PM | La Petite Prairie aux bouleaux (The Birch-Tree Meadow)

  • Director: Marceline Loridan-Ivens (France, Germany, Poland - 2003 - 1h30)

  • Cast: Anouk Aimée, August Diehl…

  • Myriam, a survivor of the death camps, decides to return to Birkenau to retrace the steps of her past. There, she meets a young German photographer, the grandson of an SS colonel... Marceline Loridan-Ivens is a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where she spent two years of her life. Shot inside the Birkenau camp, her film is a reflection on memory, forgetting, hope, and reconciliation.

Monday, October 26

The Emotion of Animated Cinema

★ In the presence of Jean-François Laguionie

• 9:30 AM | Les Mondes imaginaires (Imaginary Worlds)

  • Director: Jean-François Laguionie (France - 1967/1978 - 1h18 — Animation)

  • Seven animated short films, a meeting of imaginary worlds: an actor, the devil, a young lady, a cellist, a bomb, the daughter of the waters, Noah, and Atlantis…

  • "There is always a very strong inscription of reality in Jean-François Laguionie's films, a triviality of daily life that he explores through the medium of the fantastic." — Thomas Chapelle, Abus de ciné, May 2026

• 2:00 PM | Gwen, le livre de sable (Gwen, or the Book of Sand)

  • Director: Jean-François Laguionie (France - 1984 - 1h07 — Animation)

  • Screenplay: Jean-Paul Gaspari and Jean-François Laguionie

  • The meeting of a thirteen-year-old girl and an old woman who will draw her into a perilous journey…

  • "Jean-François Laguionie brings to life before our eyes a universe with a very powerful imagination—a desert, with its legends and myths, both completely invented and tinged with references—a whole art of evocation that makes it an ambitious, personal film, devoid of demagoguery and sentimentality..." — Alain Philippon, Cahiers du cinéma, March 1985

• 4:30 PM | Le Tableau (The Painting)

  • Director: Jean-François Laguionie (France - 2011 - 1h16 — Animation)

  • Original Screenplay: Anik Le Ray

  • Several characters from an unfinished painting step out of the canvas to go in search of the painter…

  • "Laguionie takes advantage of this beautiful odyssey of the outcasts to denounce racism and inequalities. As for the investigation into the painter who keeps slipping away, it is captivating—a dizzying mise en abyme of creation, where the artist himself is but someone else's dream." — Cécile Mury, Télérama, 04/15/2020

• 8:45 PM | Slocum et moi (Slocum and Me)

  • Director: Jean-François Laguionie (France/Luxembourg - 2025 - 1h15 — Animation)

  • Screenplay: Jean-François Laguionie and Anik Le Ray

  • Eleven-year-old François discovers that his parents are starting to build a boat in their small family garden—a replica of the sailboat of the famous sailor Joshua Slocum.

  • "The author revisits his youth spent in the shadow of a man whose uncompromising nature hides a deep crack. With a delicate line, he draws fragile silhouettes [...] that haunt a memory threatened by disappearance." — Xavier Leherpeur, Le Nouvel Obs, 01/28/2025

Tuesday, October 27

Spotlights

Singular films from diverse horizons

• 9:30 AM | Arven (The Heritage)

  • Director: Anja Breien (Norway - 1979 - 1h35 - French subtitles)

  • Cast: Espen Skjønberg, Anita Björk…

  • A family, tightly bound by an inheritance, gathers in a country house to face the final wishes of the deceased. They all divide up furniture, objects, and artworks until Jon, the brother, denounces this game of dupes and refuses his share…

  • "This intersecting portrait of men trapped by bloody codes of honor and innocently rapacious strangers has the merit of going beyond a simple observation of incommunicability." — Mathilde Blottière, Télérama

• 2:00 PM | La Noire de... (Black Girl)

  • Director: Ousmane Sembène (Senegal/France - 1966 - 1h)

  • Cast: Mbissine Thérèse Diop…

  • Diouana, a young Senegalese nanny, boards a ship for Antibes with her French employers, happy at the thought of discovering France… This film marks a milestone in cinema history: it is the first fictional feature-length film by a director from sub-Saharan Africa, and the first time a Black African woman plays the lead role. It deals with racism, political awareness, and the future of African countries after decolonization. Winner of the Jean Vigo Prize.

• 4:30 PM | Ådalen '31

  • Director: Bo Widerberg (Sweden - 1969 - 1h54 - French subtitles)

  • Cast: Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius…

  • The strike triggered in Ådalen, in northern Sweden, paralyzes the region. Riots, suppressed by the army, cause deaths and injuries. Parallel to the conflict, a love affair unfolds between the son of a striking docker and the only daughter of the factory manager.

  • "A film blending political commentary, historical reenactment, and an intimate chronicle, all tinged with a delicate impressionistic poetry." — A voir A lire, June 2020

• 8:45 PM | Dark Waters

  • Director: Todd Haynes (United States - 2020 - 2h08 - French subtitles)

  • Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway…

  • Against the advice of his employers, attorney Robert Bilott denounces the toxic practices of the DuPont chemical plants.

  • "Straightforward, sober, sometimes terrifying but always thrilling thanks to a Mark Ruffalo completely inhabited by his role, this narrative of an affair reported in 2016 by a long-term New York Times investigation [...] enters into powerful resonance with the current times, eroded by environmental fears." — Philippe Guedj, Le Point, 02/26/2020

Photo exhibition

SYLVIE DIDERON AND ÉRIC FAVRELIÈRE

CROSSED PERSPECTIVES ON RURAL CHINA

What images come to mind when we think of China? Its economic power, its place on the international stage, its rapid urbanization, its technological advances… But what do we know about rural China? The Chinese countryside is often overlooked. Through their photographs, Sylvie Dideron and Éric Favrelière open the doors to this rural world for us. Over the course of their encounters, their images tell of landscapes, faces, work, and everyday gestures, offering glimpses of a society in transformation over the last four decades.

Exhibition from October 12 to 31, 2026. Marcigny Tourist Office, place des Halles. Opening reception on Friday, October 23 at 6:30 pm.

Opening reception held during the Rencontre. 

Poster exhibition

ANIMATED CINEMA
While animated films lend themselves to daydreaming and imaginary worlds, some are inspired by real events. What makes animation unique is that it is filmed frame by frame. Nowadays, despite huge technical advances, some directors continue to make their films "the old-fashioned way," using cut-out paper, modeling clay, paint, puppets… In recent years, France has carved out the lion's share with the creation of now-famous studios such as Folimage and La Fabrique. From classic Disney films for children to auteur films that reinvent the genre, animated films now reach every audience.
A diverse and colorful exhibition of vintage posters. Cinéma Vox, rue des Écoles, throughout the Rencontre.

RESISTANCE(S)
Many films evoke Freedom, and those who sacrifice themselves for it. Whether intimate or collective, resistance has fueled many storylines inspired by the clandestine networks of the Second World War. It also portrays the partisans of wars of independence, union movements, ideological struggles, and other emancipatory fights such as feminism. It denounces every form of discrimination, campaigns for culture, and defends the environment.
Poster exhibition, from early September to the end of December. Marcigny Town Hall, 11 rue du Général de Gaulle.

How to join us in Marcigny

Geographic location

Marcigny (71110) is located on the D482 north of Roanne (Loire) 30 km, and south of Paray-le-Monial (Saône-et-Loire) 25 km.

Location of the Vox cinema Hall

12 rue des écoles, 71110 Marcigny 

Burgundy, Saône-et-Loire, France

Access by train : 

• • • SNCF, Roanne station or Paray-le-Monial station, then connection by TER bus (journey time 40 min).

    • TGV, Le Creusot TGV station then connection by coach in front of the station (duration 1h15).

By road : N482 at 30km north of Roanne and D982 at 25km south of Paray-le-Monial.

By the Green Way : cycling between Roanne and Paray-le-Monial.

Disabled access or people with reduced mobility

Parking spaces for Reduced Mobility situated in front of the Vox cinema Hall.

The projection room is accessible by means of an access ramp at the front of the Hall. An elevator is situated in the lobby of the cinema.

Meals & Restaurants 

Think of reserving your meals.

Restaurant crêperie pizzeria Côté Cours : 18 place du cours, +33 3 85 25 46 56 Closed on Thursdays 

Béatrice Héritier Catering Service See venue and phone number on the Rencontre 

Kebab Bar Pizza: 5 place des Halles, +33 3 85 25 20 68

Sandwiches and menus. Meals on the premises. Takeaway sales.

Le Pénalty : 27 rue Chevalière, +33 3 85 25 03 85
Bar - Restaurant - Pizzas 

Restaurant le Vieux Puits: 11 place du cours, +33 3 85 25 11 05
Closed all day Sunday, and Monday and Tuesday evenings

Reserved specially for the Meeting : Room N°5 behind the Town Hall. 11 rue du Général de Gaulle.
You can bring your own picnic

Sleeping accomodation

Group accommodation to be booked via the organizers of  MARCYNÉMA 

Maison familiale rurale du Charolais-Brionnais (6 km) Les Haires 71110 Anzy-le-Duc

8 rooms with 2 to 4 beds, including 1 PMR room. Small kitchen available. 16.50€ / night / person.

Bookings: +33 6 88 22 15 27 or franhugon@orange.fr

Baugy’te Le Bourg 71110 Baugy (4 km). For bookings: +33 3 45 53 20 32

Specify name, surname, number of people, nights desired with a telephone number or email address to confirm your reservation. Indicate whether or not you agree to share a room with other people. Payment for the nights will be made directly to the accommodation.

Partner accommodation to be booked individually

Bed and Breakfast

• La Musardière 50 rue de la Tour du Moulin 71110 Marcigny +33 3 85 25 38 54

• La nuit Thé 7 rue des Ursulines 71110 Marcigny +33 6 23 62 20 84

• Les Pergolas 18 rue des Récollets 71110 Marcigny +33 3 45 53 33 74

• Chambres d’hôtes du Lac - Le Lac 71110 Anzy-le-Duc (6 km) +33 3 85 25 39 93

• Le Charbonnet - Charbonnet 71110 Anzy-le-Duc (9,4 km) +33 6 11 60 68 00

• J-J Charliot La Brosse du milieu 71110 Sainte-Foy (10 km) +33 6 32 23 66 84

• La Vie en Roses Le Perret 71340 Iguerande (11 km) +33 6 23 83 38 60

• Le Champ de l’Etre - Les Montées 71340 Iguerande (13 km) +33 3 85 84 09 69

• La Bergerie du Bois Joannin Les Fleuriats 71340 Iguerande (13 km) +33 6 46 80 30 22

Gîtes

• Mme Cariot 2 bis rue du four +33 6 36 65 65 25

• Gîtes du Boulanger 3 rue des Récollets 71110 Marcigny +33 7 71 28 59 50

• Maison brionnaise 63 rue de La Chenale 71110 Marcigny +33 6 62 35 14 37

• Ô sans souci 71110 Semur-en-Brionnais (2 km) +33 6 12 43 97 58

• Le Petit Chambi 71110 Chambilly (2,6 km) +33 6 86 77 01 84

• Belle vue La Cray 71110 Semur (4 km) +33 6 42 70 03 89

• La Petite maison 251 Chemin de la Fay 71110 Semur-en-Brionnais (5 km) +33 6 84 45 50 92

• Au coq à l’âne Route de Marcigny 71110 St-Julien-de-Jonzy (8 km) +33 6 87 43 12 81

• Moulin Bailly Le Moulin, 71340 Chenay-le-Châtel (12 km) +33 6 46 48 54 11

Hôtels

• L' auberge de Saint Julien 150 Grande Rue 71110 Saint-Julien-de-Jonzy (10 km) +33 3 85 84 01 95

See also Marcigny Tourist Office: 

brionnais-tourisme.fr

+33 3 85 25 39 06 , ot.marcigny-semur@wanadoo.fr

Rates

• 3 sessions €16

• 4 sessions €20

• 8 sessions €38 or €32 for members and students

• 12 sessions €48 or €42 for members and students

• 19 sessions €72 or €62 for members and students

Single session entry possible: €6

Half price for children under 12.

Discounted rate for members and students.

Membership card (€10) entitling holders to reduced rates.

Passes on sale at reception,

Payment at reception by cash or cheque.

Support the Marcynéma association by becoming a Benefactor Member (donation from €40 with tax deduction receipt).

Contact us

Administrative address 

Association Marcynéma

Office de Tourisme Marcigny Semur

Place des Halles

71110 Marcigny 

FRANCE

Telephone: 

+33 (0)7 67 48 37 60  

Telephone during the film meeting : 

+33 (0)6 72 64 08 07

Email 

contact@marcynema.org

Association of the Marcigny Film Meetings and the Safeguarding of the Cinematographic Heritage 

(Association law 1901 approved of popular education founded in 1976)

Other practical information

Tourist Office of Marcigny-Semur

The Tourist Office, located in an old hairdresser's salon dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. They can inform you about sites to discover : events, accommodation and restaurants, located in the area but also within a radius of 30 -50 kms. You can also purchase in the Tourist information office local products, handicrafts, books, hiking, cycling and mountain biking guides, postcards,... In addition, the Tourist Office provides tickets for certain concerts, the sale of fishing permits and free access to wifi.

www.brionnais-tourisme.fr/en/