Berck sur Mer, France hosts Europe’s biggest kite festival, bringing together kite flyers from China, Australia, the United States and all of Europe.

International Wind Festival, held in October in Fréjus, France.
Participants are expert kite fliers who flock from France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Colombia. They fly their giant fish, their twirling mega socks, their high-tech mills; they battle red, yellow, blue, green flying objects in vicious highly tactical rokkaku kite fights; they send kites off to dance a waltz and to vibrate to new-age music; they entertain everyone.


Jaipur Kite Festival, India
“With each cut loose of a kite, people fill the environment shouting, “Woh Kata““.


International Dieppe Kite Festival

some photos – Pierre Lesage