November 6th, 2009 | 
Author: If you are taking a French holiday this year, why not head to a film festival? Sarlat is set in a small valley between the Dordogne and Vezere rivers, hosting its own film festival every year during mid November.
Sarlat has been used as the shooting location for well known films such as Cyrano de Bergerac, and The Bride and The Duellists. The film festivals have been running since 1981 and up to 80 long and short films are presented annually throughout the festival.
The town also boasts a prestigious theatre which attracts artists from all over the world. It too holds its own theatre festival every summer, which has been running for more than 55 years. As well enjoying the programme of performances and lectures, visitors can mingle with the plays’ actors and directors.
Hotel owners in Sarlat Diane and Pierre-Henri Toulemon said about their hometown: “It has an amazing setting, an emotion for your eyes and your heart. Festivals express themselves in a medieval Sarlat with our theatre and film festivals. The historic city all on her own takes a census of sixty six listed monuments. It is situated at the epicentre of prestigious pre-historic Unesco protected places of interest and of a myriad of castles which hang together as far as eye can see, making one of the most beautiful touristic framework in the world.”
Sarlat became a prosperous city at the end of the VIII century under the reign of Pepin le Bref and Charlemagne when the Benedictines established a monastery there. It has remained one of the towns’ most representative of 14th century France.
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