Cinema
5 addresses in Paris and Madrid
L'Étrange Festival closes in Salle 500 with Na Hong-jin
Twelve days of genre cinema under Les Halles, ending Saturday at 20:00 with the avant-première of Hope and the prize list read out in the same room.
September 1–12, 2026 · Forum des images
Buy online · box office daily from 13:30
Festival de Cine de Madrid–PNR: a €3.50 double bill
Thirty-fifth edition of the new-directors festival: an opening gala at the Teatro Círculo de Bellas Artes, then competition screenings at Cineteca Madrid and Sala Berlanga.
September 14–20, 2026 · Cineteca Madrid
Berlanga sessions €3.50 · box office and entradas.com
Space at the Cinémathèque, introduced by the people who go
Three weeks of space cinema on rue de Bercy, from Méliès to Nolan, with sessions presented by an astronaut, a debris researcher and two astrophysicists.
September 30 – October 19, 2026 · La Cinémathèque française
Standard ticketing · rooms reopened after summer works
Belmondo at the Cinémathèque: 35 films and one ticket
Five years after his death, an exhibition and a parallel retrospective built as a career in 35 films — Godard to Verneuil, Becker to Melville.
October 7 – January 31, 2027 · La Cinémathèque française
Take the combined screening-plus-exhibition ticket
Another Way: six days of climate documentary in Madrid
The twelfth edition runs 20 to 25 October in Madrid, in person and online across Spain, with a programme devoted to sustainable development and the environment; venues for 2026 are not yet announced.
October 20–25, 2026 · Madrid
Programme and tickets not yet published
Nothing here yet — the first stories land in the next issue.
For curious minds with a taste for the exceptional
One dispatch a week from Paris and Madrid: where to go, when to be there, what not to miss.