Cinema

An encounter with individuals living outside institutions and norms, navigating alternative circuits.

This program features 22 films that share the intent of creating bespoke cinematic spaces for these rebellious, eccentric, and visionary figures—allowing the respectful and often admiring gaze of the filmmakers to linger within us. It also seeks to challenge certain stereotypes about marginality. The people portrayed are often women and are rarely shown as isolated. While the protagonists sometimes recount experiences of violence, they above all demonstrate a remarkable creative strength, with their peripheral positions becoming spaces of freedom.

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The Ideal Cinematheque of the World’s Suburbs seeks to revisit the dominant imagination conveyed by images of the suburbs and the mechanisms of invisibilization to which they are subjected. Initiated by filmmaker Alice Diop and organized in collaboration with Les Ateliers Médicis, this program serves as both an observatory and a space for reflection. Each session, structured around a specific theme, presents a selection of films from diverse backgrounds (fiction and documentary, heritage or contemporary, poetic and political, short and feature-length), followed by a discussion.

• 16 June 2025
  Jean Rouch
  Forum des images, Paris
• 14-17 Nnovember 2025
  Temps fort autour de la question mémorielle
  mk2 Bibliothèque, Paris and Cinéma Alice Guy, Bobigny

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As two new films by Romanian director Radu Jude—Kontinental 25 (Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2025 Berlinale) and Dracula—are about to be released, a complete retrospective is being held at mk2 Bibliothèque x Centre Pompidou. It features 25 films made since the early 2000s, spanning all formats—fiction, documentary, and experimental—presented in the presence of the filmmaker and numerous guests.

This retrospective is also accompanied by a book published by Les éditions de l’Œil, compiling excerpts from the filmmaker’s journal, a lengthy interview, and various texts.

Quickly established as one of the most provocative voices in European cinema, Radu Jude casts a searing gaze—free from allegiance or decorum—on post-communist and post-capitalist Europe as seen from Romania. True to Marx’s famous dictum that history always repeats itself, "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce", his work is marked by unflinching historical precision and political fury, while also being irreverently humorous and wildly satirical.

A complete retrospective of British filmmaker Derek Jarman’s (1942–1994) short and feature films—an iconic figure of the avant-garde and underground scene in 1980s England.

Interweaving aesthetic concerns with social issues during the Thatcher era, his erudite and visionary films retain a striking political force in these times of renewed conservatism. Painter, filmmaker, writer, gay rights activist, queer culture pioneer, and gardener—like the man himself, Jarman’s body of work takes many forms: experimental films, music videos and shorts, theatrical and literary adaptations... His interests span music, painting, theatre, poetry, history, religion, and philosophy.

As Jarman always worked collectively, surrounded by longtime friends and collaborators, this retrospective adopts a polyphonic approach—enriched by the voices of close companions, including Tilda Swinton, witnesses, and creative heirs who will accompany many of the screenings.