The Cinematheque celebrates its fifth anniversary !

In January 2018, the Bpi embarked on a crazy gamble: offering everyone the chance to come and see documentary films every day in the halls of the Centre Pompidou. Films from all over the world, from classics to the latest creations, films to take the time to watch and think about the world, together, at the cinema, and offered by La Cinémathèque du Documentaire at the Bpi.

Spectators at the rendezvous

Organized into three major seasons, each offering a flagship cycle, the programming aims to support and disseminate contemporary creation, to show heritage films on their original medium (and in a restored version), to enhance and question corpus artistic and thematic.

Five years later, La cinémathèque du documentaire à la Bpi brought together nearly 69,000 spectators who were able to watch more than 1,300 documentary films, short and feature films, during 20 thematic cycles devoted to the greatest directors, from Claire Simon to Sergueï Loznitsa via Gianfranco Rosi, Helena Třeštíková, the Maysles brothers or Dominique Cabrera.

An online offer during the pandemics

In 2020, during the health crisis, the programming of La cinémathèque du documentaire at the Bpi was able to bounce back and adapt to the closure of the Centre Pompidou cinemas to maintain the sustained distribution of documentary films throughout the year. If many sessions had to be canceled or postponed, the Bpi teams mobilized to offer an online offer via different platforms, including the library website. In all, 20 films were released during the March-May shutdown period.

An exceptional cycle to start 2023

While 2023 marks the fifth year of existence of the Cinémathèque, the Bpi is inaugurating a new cycle from January 6 devoted to the Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter. With Homo Sapiens, the first French retrospective dedicated to his work, the public is invited to discover the filmography of the director of Our Daily Bread, a gripping documentary on the agri-food industry that has won six awards!

See you in 2028 for the tenth anniversary!