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The Documentary Film Month: La ferme à Gégé

Culture · Saturday, November 28 · 18:00 · Paris

Bibliothèque Marguerite Audoux, 10 rue Portefoin

Free

After the screening of Florent Verder's film, join a discussion with some of the filmmakers. Released in theaters in February 2023, this 71-minute documentary was made in France in 2021. Gérard Coutance, nicknamed “Gégé,” has lived for three generations as a leaseholder on a farm in the Norman bocage. In the 1990s, heavily in debt, he transformed his operation into a child-friendly welcome site. La ferme à Gégé became a unique welcome space in France. Today, with no successor and facing eviction, La ferme à Gégé risks disappearing, and with it…