Cinema: our winter program

Denis Gheerbrant, Marc Isaacs – double retrospective

This winter, we take you on a hand-held camera, in the wake of Denis Gheerbrant and Marc Isaacs, to meet singular individuals and often bruised lives.
Between the Frenchman, who places himself in the tradition of Johan van der Keuken, and the Briton, who claims to be Želimir Žilnik, they combine a keen sense of listening and a spontaneous practice of the art of encounter. A (very) direct cinema that comes in the first person, each according to their artistic choices and their sensitivity in a human and political commitment embodied in the dialogue that brings out the word for the benefit of a better understanding of the vicissitudes of the world. A double retrospective, in the presence of the filmmakers, to rediscover the work of Denis Gheerbrant on the occasion of the release of the book Denis Gheerbrant et la vie (Warm Editions) and to get to know that of Marc Isaacs, broadcast for the first times in France.

Regular meetings

The upheavals of the 21st century will also shake up our regular meetings. Les yeux doc à midi will offer films every Friday that deal with the damage of war and the lives of those who have survived the conflicts.
Guest of the Du court, toujours event, the Territoires en images festival has designed a feminine program, plural and full of contrasts, from Roubaix to Rio de Janeiro.
The Documentary Cinema-Péripherie Meetings, placed this year under the sign of the praise of sharing, will allow us to review the film Fading by Olivier Zabat, session preceded by the presentation of a film project, within the framework of Cinéastes au travail. This unprecedented partnership with the Périphérie editing residence will host the film by Vadim Dumesh, edited by Clara Chapus.
The production of films will also be discussed during the Rencontres d’Images documentaires which will present the film devoted to Nicolas Philibert by Jean-Louis Comolli.

Special screenings

And because the forms of documentary cinema are multiple and draw as much on the past as on the present, we will also delve into the archives. Life and survival of the archives first, through a program in collaboration with the Hors Pistes festival devoted this year to the Ages of Images. An ambitious program will attempt to retrace the life trajectory of animated images in four sessions.
Archives and history then, with two exceptional events: the screening of A Twice Promised Land: Israel-Palestine by Blanche Finger and William Karel, winner of the Charles Brabant Prize 2021 from the Scam for all of his work, and the presentation in preview of Sergei Loznitsa’s new film, Babi Yar: context, a poignant meditation on the perception of history and the construction of memories.

A burning winter of news, humanity and cinema, to be discovered in the halls of the Centre Pompidou!