French port to host Oriental book festival

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2006

SAINT MALO, France (AFP) — The famous port of Saint Malo in Brittany, western France, will take on a distinctly oriental flavour for the first weekend in June this year.

For its 17th edition, the internationally renowned "Etonnants Voyageurs" book and film festival -- which each year celebrates a different part of the world -- will be paying homage to writers, directors and photographers from India, China, Japan and North Africa.

The sub-title of this year's festival is "Orient of Dreams, Orient Real".

"The orient was invented by people in the West. It is the land where the other lives, an imaginary continent," writer and festival director Michel Le Bris told AFP.

Le Bris says visitors should be prepared to plunge into a world inhabited by some of...