Return of the open-air cinema to the Parc de La Villette in Paris, discover the program

The festival of outdoor cinema at the heart of park La Villette a Paris returns for a 32nd edition this Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Until August 21, 25 films will be screened free of charge, each week from Wednesday to Sunday, on the theme of dance.

lightning dance in the opening session

For the opening session, it’s the movie lightning dance by Adrian Lyne which will be screened at 10:30 p.m. It will be presented by the presentation of three winning films from the 2022 Micro-Films competition, organized within the Micro-Folie network. At 8:30 p.m., a guided tour of the exhibition The Air of the Giants is organized in the presence of the artists.

Then for a month, more than 20 films around dance will be honored for this new edition of the festival.

Film programming

• Wednesday July 20: lightning dance (Adrian Lyne – 1983 – 1:35) at 10:30 p.m.
• Thursday July 21: Player (Ballet by Alexander Ekman, filmed at the Opéra national de Paris – 2017 – 1h45) at 10:30 p.m.
• Friday July 22: pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino – 1994 – 2:36 – Forbidden to children under 12) at 10:30 p.m.
• Saturday July 23: The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman – 1971 – 1:19) at 10:30 p.m.
• Sunday July 24: The Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy – 1967 – 2h08) at 10:30 p.m.
• Wednesday July 27: Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski – 2018 – 1:29) at 10:15 p.m.
• Thursday July 28: birth of octopuses (Céline Sciamma – 2007 – 1h25) at 10:15 p.m.
• Friday July 29: Billy Eliot (Stephen Daldry – 2000 – 1:52) at 10:15 p.m.
• Saturday July 30: Saturday night fever (John Badham – 1978 – 1:53) at 10:15 p.m.
• Sunday July 31: The Red Slippers (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger – 1949 – 2:13) at 10:15 p.m.
• Wednesday August 3: Together (Valérie Donzelli – 2012 – 1h24) at 10 p.m.
• Thursday, August 4: The Grand Ball (Laetitia Carton – 2018 – 1h29) at 10 p.m.
• Friday August 5: Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky – 2011 – 1:48) at 10 p.m.
• Saturday August 6: The artist (Michel Hazanavicius – 2011 – 1h40) at 10 p.m.
• Sunday August 7: Hello Sadness (Otto Preminger – 1958 – 1h34) at 10 p.m.
• Wednesday August 10: If it was love (from Crowd by Gisèle Vienne – Patric Chiha – 2020 – 1h22) at 9:45 p.m.
• Thursday August 11: Eden (Mia Hansen – Love – 2014 – 2:11) at 9:45 p.m.
• Friday August 12: A dancer in the night (Lars Von Trèves – 2000 – 2h21) at 9:45 p.m.
• Saturday August 13: Eyes wide closed (Stanley Kubrick – 1999 – 2:40) at 9:45 p.m.
• Sunday August 14: Life is Beautiful (Frank Capra – 1948 – 2:09) at 9:45 p.m.
• Wednesday August 17: grisgris (Mahamat – Saleh Haroun – 2013 – 1h40) at 9:30 p.m.
• Thursday August 18: Daughter (Lukas Dhont – 2018 – 1h46) at 9:30 p.m.
• Friday August 19: Well love (Christophe Honoré – 2011 – 2h19) at 9:30 p.m.
• Saturday August 20: High heels (Pedro Almodovar – 1992 – 1:55) at 9:30 p.m.
• Sunday August 21: West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins – 1962 – 2:33) at 9:30 p.m.

Other animations and projections of short films are also organized during the festival, all the programming is available on the site of La Villette.

Access to the cinema is free within the limits of available places. On the other hand, the rental of a deckchair is paying: 7 €, or 20 € for five.

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