At the origin of this event, which takes place every two years in Locronan, Finistère, a common passion for cinema and gastronomy; and 2 books we wrote: «les petits plats du grand écran» (1999) and Ciné-bouffe (2001) ; then a 1st International Film and Gastronomy Festival in Dijon, (2004 and 2005).
It is therefore with a gourmet pleasure that we decided to pay tribute, through this festival, to the delicious films (squeaky or greedy) evoking gastronomy, and the most exquisite table scenes to try to understand why and how they were cooked by the directors who imagined them.
We also have the desire to use cinema to create a bridge with good food, and to discover or rediscover the taste of cooking in order to make informed choices, to eat less unconsciously. It is therefore with an insatiable gastrosophical pleasure that we concocted the different themes of this event.
We say of our village, classified most beautiful village of France and city of character, where the oldest houses date from the sixteenth century, that it is a kind of small Holywwod of Brittany. It must be said that more than thirty feature films and series were shot there. Like Tess, Chouants, Un long dimanche de fiançailles....
