Cinema
In 2025, the Centre Pompidou is beginning a major transformation !
In preparation for the renovation of its iconic building, the performance and conference halls are the first spaces to close.
Find:
- On this page, the full schedule of events taking place at the Centre Pompidou through to September 2025.
- In the Hors les murs section, the first events hosted by our partner venues, starting in January 2025.
These are a preview of the ambitious Constellation programme through which the Centre Pompidou remains more vibrant than ever and closer to you, spreading across hundreds of partner venues in France and internationally, from 2025 to 2030.- Discover the full programme of the Cinémathèque du documentaire at the Forum des images for evening screenings, et au Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles for daytime sessions
- The Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde continues its survey at Majestic Bastille and at Forum des images.
- Head to the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (Inha) for the cycles Vidéo and après et Film 2025, screenings and discussions centred on the Cinema and New Media collections of the Museum.
At a glance, closure timeline and main program from March to September 2025
Frederick Wiseman, our humanities
Chapter 2
Saturday 25 January at 4pm: Belfast, Maine (1999)
Sunday 26 January at 2pm: Near Death (1999)
as part of the 2nd part of his Paris retrospective (8 January-19 March 2025)
La cinémathèque du documentaire
Cinéma 1
The complete retrospective of Frederick Wiseman's work continues, this time all over Paris: twenty films to be discovered at the Forum des images or the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, as well as special screenings in other partner venues. Exceptionally, two screenings will be held at the Centre Pompidou.
Frederick Wiseman (born in 1930 in Boston, USA) started writing human-centred comedies in 1967, with a predilection for sites and behind-the-scenes material where ordinary lives are lived out. His works emerge from an immense curiosity, admirable obstinacy and empathetic humanism combined with an outsider’s perspective and biting irony. They do not aim to claim expertise in social science or present us with a carbon copy of reality but, on the contrary, their objective is to transpose reality into theatricality, fiction and the quixotic, with characters often caught in performative situations and dimensions.
This unique fresco is composed of 46 films to date, including 33 that have been recently restored, for a total of over 115 hours. The second part of this retrospective confirms that our humanities are a receptacle for the diversity of experiences and situations, combined with a moral principle: the demand for equality.
Sarah Maldoror
3 – 7 April 2025
Screenings | Lectures | Encounters
in the presence of artists and witnesses
In the spirit of one of her landmark works, Et les chiens se taisaient—excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s eponymous play, staged in the storage rooms of the Musée de l’Homme in 1978—the life and career of Sarah Maldoror (1929–2020) reflect the major struggles of the 20th century: Surrealism, Négritude, Pan-Africanism, feminism, and communism.
As a companion to the exhibition "Paris Noir", which explores the presence and influence of Black artists in France from the 1950s to the 2000s, the public is invited to hear the voice of this filmmaker in the present tense.
