Open-air cinema at the Shoah Memorial: sports programming in August

This summer, the Mémorial de la Shoah becomes an open-air cinema once again, for a sporting and poignant program featuring three feature-length films tackling the lives of athletes, in this year of the Olympic Games in the capital. Join us from August 22 to 25 , 2024 to discover these works free of charge on the forecourt of the Shoah Memorial, in the 4th arrondissement. Each evening, at 9:30pm, the canvas unfurls for an open-air screening of the film.

Admission is free, but reservations are required. Think about it now! And take advantage of the ongoing exhibition, from which the theme of this open-air cinema derives, to explore the values defended by Olympism, the commitment to tolerance and the instrumentalization of sport.

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The program

• Thursday, August 22: The Color of Victory by Stephen Hopkins

In 1936, as the Berlin Olympic Games promised to glorify the Third Reich, Jesse Owens, an African-American athlete, turned Adolf Hitler's racial rhetoric on its head with his performance.

• Saturday, August 24: Invictus by Clint Eastwood

The 1995 Rugby World Cup is organized in South Africa. Nelson Mandela, who had just been elected president, used the event to bring together a country scarred by apartheid and racism.

• Sunday, August 25: Hugh Hudson'scrazy wagons

In the 1920s, two British athletes compete in the 100-meter dash. Behind the competition lie two issues: for one, combating anti-Semitism; for the other, affirming his religious faith.