Cinéma du Réel

March 5 through March 17, 2009

Since it was created 30 years ago, the Cinéma du Réel has become the outstanding international documentary film festival in France.

Open to a wide diversity of writing, forms, and ideas, it now gathers a faithful, curious and broad-based public. Festival screenings at: the Centre Pompidou, the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, the MK2 Beaubourg film theatre, the Paris City Hall and several other theatres in the Ile-de- France area.

The festival will feature:

A Tribute to Pierre Perrault
Ten years ago one of the great Quebecois masters of documentary cinema passed away. Filmmaker, poet and writer, Pierre Perrault focused all his attention on the spoken language and man’s relationship with nature.

The International Competition and French Panorama
Some twenty first screenings of short and feature-length films from the four corners of the planet, encounters and discussions with the invited filmmakers. A review of this year’s French documentary production in the authors’ presence.

Television in the vanguard

A small detour into public television when it stood as a real laboratory of creativity with respect to how it represented the world. Partnered by the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA).

Full program and addresses here.