Cinema
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.
Observatoire et lieu de réflexion à la fois, chaque séance propose, autour d'une thématique, une sélection de films de différents horizons (fictionnel et documentaire, patrimonial ou actuel, poétique et politique, court et long métrage…), et un débat en présence d'Alice Diop et des cinéastes invité.e.s.
Séances et réservations dans l'agenda
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Chaque mois, un nouveau parcours thématique pour découvrir les films de la cinémathèque. Une archive vivante, en accès gratuit, régulièrement alimentée. Des projections et rencontres partout dans le monde.
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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.
