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The fight to reopen La Clef is a huge collective effort, which is not always visible! Of course, there’s the collection of donations and the bank loan’s negotiation to finance the purchase of the cinema before the end of March – but that’s not all! We turn the cinema projectors back on once a month,…

La Clef screenig-rooms are full of stories. 
For 50 years, programmers, exhibitors, viewers, filmmakers and associations have shown and discovered films here. Those are almost always comitted, often rare and sometimes invisible. The building has also hosted a pizzeria, family parties, yoga classes and painting workshops – and most recently… us, for two and a…

The exhibition-sale “Tout doit disparaître” (Everything must go) was a wild adventure and a great success: over two thousand people visited it during the two days it was on display, and 50 pieces of art – half of all those donated by the artists – were sold to benefit the purchase of La Clef cinema!…

Thanks to all of you. Our crowdfunding to save La Clef raised today €357,000. But we still need time to complete the purchase, and obtained a 5-month extension! Dear public, dear donors, The sale’s agreement promise we signed in April with the owner of the cinema La Clef is now reaching its deadline.Thanks to you…

Thanks to the support of over 80 international artists, we have organised an exceptional exhibition-sale held on the 28th and 29th October at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Open free of charge over the weekend, the exhibition will unite artists from all backgrounds and disciplines. Like La Clef’s program and beyond, this will be…

Almost exactly four years ago, the curtain at La Clef cinema rose again after more than a year’s closure. A group of film fans, local residents, students and cinema professionals embarked on what would become the longest-ever citizens’ occupation of a cinema in France. For nearly three years, dozens of enthusiasts took it in turns…

As part of the Brixton Community Cinema‘s festival (from the 9th of June to the 2nd of July 2023) the collective La Clef REvival is pleased to be invited to present a surprise film on the 13th of June, in the Atlantic Hall Cinema in London (UK). Apart from the film’s precious subject and fragile…

A look back at the closing session of Seytou Africa – African Documentary Festival, hosted by the Saint-André des Arts, introduced by La Clef Revival and attended by the actor Sidiki Bakaba ​ ​ Thank you again to our programmers for their invitation and this wonderful opportunity to (re)discover Med Hondo’s and Sarah Maldroror’s features.