A history of French cinema. Maghreb heritage
When: 30.10.2026 10:00
Where: 48.834638, 2.409586
Organizer: Admin
Directors, from the pioneer Ali Ghanem to Mehdi Charef, Rachid Bouchareb, Hafsia Herzi or Lina Soualem, as well as actors Jamel Debbouze, Rachida Brakni, Roschdy Zem or Sami Bouajila, have helped shape a singular cultural history. Their journeys, between France and the Maghreb, have participated in redefining, across generations, the imaginations of French cinema. Their films, often pioneering, have opened the way to unprecedented narratives, mixing the experience of exile, the quest for identity and the renewal of cinematic forms.
Rather than focusing on immigration figures as they have been represented on screen, A New History of French Cinema chooses to side with the artists who, since the 1960s, have written large sections of French cinema history without that history ever having been told.
Through film excerpts, posters, on‑set photographs, storyboards, iconic cinema objects such as Césars, and press archives, A New History of French Cinema offers a concrete and sensitive traversal of this history. The exhibition puts in dialogue widely recognized works and others more rarely shown, sometimes restored or digitized for the occasion.
The exhibition ends with a sequence looking toward the future: the eruption of genre cinema, the importance of women, formal freedom, the boldness of narratives and the emergence of new voices circulating between the two shores.
Tags: history, exhibition, film, culture
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/une-histoire-du-cinema-francais-heritages-maghrebins-117946
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