Exhibition: A history of French cinema - Maghreb heritage
When: 30.10.2026 00:00
Where: 48.834638, 2.409586
Organizer: Admin
Directors, from pioneer Ali Ghanem to Mehdi Charef, Rachid Bouchareb, Hafsia Herzi or Lina Soualem, such as actors Jamel Debbouze, Rachida Brakni, Roschdy Zem or Sami Bouajila, have helped shape a unique cultural history. Their journey, between France and the Maghreb, has helped redefine, over generations, the imaginations of French cinema. Their films, often pioneers, have paved the way for new stories, mixing the experience of exile, the quest for identity and the renewal of cinematographic forms.
Rather than attaching to immigration figures as shown on the screen, A history of French cinema chooses to place itself on the side of artists who, since the 1960s, have written large sections of the history of French cinema without this story ever being told.
Through film excerpts, posters, filming photographs, storyboards, iconic cinema objects like Caesars or press archives, A history of French cinema proposes a concrete and sensitive crossing of this history. The exhibition puts in dialogue works widely recognized and others more rarely shown, sometimes restored or digitized for the occasion.
The exhibition concludes with a future-oriented sequence: the eruption of genre cinema, the importance of women, formal freedom, the audacity of narratives and the emergence of new voices circulating between the two shores.
This exhibition is part of the Mediterranean Season 2026.
Office
Office of the Exhibition
Clementine Deroudille, curator, author and director.
Lucile Humbert Beldjoudi, responsible for audiovisual projects at the National Museum of Immigration History, creator of the Horizons cinema residence.
Accompanied by Chloé Dupont, who is in charge of exhibition at the National Museum of Immigration History.
Scientific and artistic support
Aurélie Cardin, creator of the CinéBanlieue Festival.
Solange Poulet, at the initiative of the creation of Aflam in Marseille.
Tags: history, exhibition, film, cinema
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/exposition-une-histoire-du-cinema-francais-heritages-maghrebins-120535
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