From April 9 to 12, 2026, the city of Agde will host the first edition of the Pages & Images Festival, a unique event dedicated to the numerous connections between literature and cinema.
Novels, manga, comic books, video games, and heritage works: all forms of adaptation will be highlighted through a rich and immersive program.
Designed as a true space for dialogue between the arts, the festival offers the public reading performances, meetings with authors and directors, conferences, as well as immersive experiences inviting everyone to become actors in the works.
Among the highlights of this first edition, the bookstore La Promenade au Phare stands out with several notable events.
Starting on Thursday, April 9 at 7pm, an evening dedicated to William Shakespeare will kick off the festivities with a conference led by Nathalie Vienne Guerrin, a professor of Shakespearean studies at the University of Montpellier and president of the European Shakespeare Research Association. The event will continue at the Le Travelling cinema with the screening of the film Hamnet by Chloé Zhao. A dining option is also available in partnership with La Fabrik, by reservation.
On Saturday, April 11, the audience can attend a live reading by Corinne Calmels of the novel L’intimité d’Alice Ferney, which inspired the film L’attachement, before its screening at the cinema. The evening will continue with a literary aperitif at the bookstore.
The Le Travelling cinema will also host several highlights throughout the festival. On Friday, April 10, an immersive evening around The Great Gatsby will immerse viewers in the ambiance of the Roaring Twenties, with the presence of pianist Philippe Cauchi-Pomponi, dancers, and vintage vehicles, before the screening of Baz Luhrmann’s film.
Sunday, April 12 will offer a dense program: a preview of the film Hitler’s Food Tasters preceded by a historical context by Christine Delpous, a screening of Wuthering Heights accompanied by a live performance, and The Speech, introduced by an analysis of the literary adaptation by Karim Ghiyati, director of the Occitanie Culture cinema department.
In total, around ten cinema sessions will be offered during these four days. Those without specific activities will be supplemented with short immersive readings by Corinne Calmels, creating a direct link between text and image.
Organized by the association Bouillon de Lecture, the bookstore La Promenade au Phare, and the cinema Le Travelling, the Pages & Images Festival is aimed at all audiences and aims to renew the perspective on works by intersecting disciplines and sensitivities.
An invitation to read films, see books, and experience stories differently.
