Cinema
British film-maker Terence Davies passed away on 7th October 2023. Auteur of an autobiographical trilogy (1983), Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992) and The Deep Blue Sea (2011), he started out in the 1970s, building an intimate, moving body of work, with storylines revealing an organic rapport with narration, reflecting the meanderings of memory, the passing of time and the suffering of creation.
The full retrospective has been timed to coincide with the release in France of his last film, Benediction, on 6 March 2024.
For over 30 years, French director Stéphane Mercurio has made a point of giving a voice to the invisible with immeasurable empathy. To those living on the fringe of fractured French society, those for whom life is a struggle, the homeless, those whose freedom has been curbed, those seeking their identity or gender. In the hopes that each of her films might shift somewhat our view of the world, Stéphane Mercurio sees film as the liberation of thoughts as words, "a citizen’s arena in which viewers have room to think and take the time to call themselves into question".
"Cinéma du réel"
46th International Documentary Festival
22 – 31 March 2024
Competition I Retrospectives I Meetings with the public and professionals
How to define documentary films? Cinéma du Réel explores and examines this question every year via the projection of over 100 French and foreign films – of which some 40 are in the running for an award, and none have been released in France –, as well as meetings with the public and professionals.
Featuring a mix of documentaries and experimentation in selections that reflect the diversity of genres and approaches to film, the festival highlights heritage and memory in the genre, all the while fostering dialogue with contemporary creation.
The Ideal Cinematheque of the Suburbs of the World
One session every month
Screenings and encounters
This monthly event extends the dialogue around fundamental contemporary questions: in the suburbs, where buildings appear and disappear to the beat of human experiences and urban developments, in a cycle that could seem infinite, cinema represents heritage that nowadays must be revealed, saved and shared. This parallel history of cinema is a continuous flow of erasure and disappearances. The challenge is also to question the logic of our fields of meaning, in the critical relationship to works and their reception. What is a filmmaker or a film "from the suburbs"? Which stories fall under this category?
A project based on an idea from filmmaker Alice Diop.
Each month, the teams from Ateliers Médicis and Centre Pompidou choose and present a film, with the filmmaker in attendance as a guest.
Trajectoires
Once a month
Previews
Through each season and release, the "Trajectoires" screenings trace the work of filmmakers in novel creation and film. Artist films, fiction films, documentaries… the "Trajectoires" screenings build on the connections with artists previously presented at the Centre Pompidou, through retrospectives, installations of the Hors Pistes festival. A constellation of creations.
Film
Two Wednesdays a month, at 7pm + one-off sessions
"Film" proposes a new insight into the Museum’s film collections.
Prospectif cinéma
The last Thursday of every month at 7pm
"Cinema of the future" explores film production by contemporary French and international artists.
Vidéo et après
One Monday a month at 7pm
"Video and after" is a cycle of meetings with artists and art historians proposing screenings, conferences, performances and discussions.
Les yeux doc à midi
Every Friday at 12pm – Free admission within the limit of seats available
Showing on a large screen of a film from the online Les yeux doc catalogue.
Trésors du doc
One Sunday a month at 5pm
Every three months, a film library or heritage collection is invited to provide a documentary gem from its reserves.
Du court, toujours
Once a month at 8pm
Themed screening of short films according to desires, news and the season!
Les rencontres d'Images documentaires
Once a month at 8pm
Meeting on a film chosen by the editorial board of the Images documentaires review.
La Fabrique des films
Once a month at 6pm
An evening with a film-maker in two parts: presentation of a current project, screening of a previous film.
Fenêtre sur festivals
Special sessions
Screening of films presented in documentary film festivals.
Séances spéciales
Special sessions
Previews, new or award-winning films… to be discovered throughout each season.
In the museum
The works belonging to the museum's collection can be consulted:
- on a rotational basis in the museum's rooms;
- in the "Museum Cinema" projection room on level 4;
- in the "Film, video, sound and digital works area" on level 4, on two dedicated workstations. Free access to over 2,000 digitised works*.
*Excluding videos, CD-ROMs and sound works, which require special installations, as well as very recent acquisitions and videos currently being restored.