John Berger at Forum des images: films, talks and readings to mark his centenary

How can we learn to look at an image, tell a story or think about our relationship with animals? The Forum des images is dedicating a tribute to John Berger from November 13 to 22, 2026, in Paris. To mark the centenary of the birth of the British writer, painter and screenwriter, the program brings together films, discussions, lectures and readings, with the participation of his children Katya, Jacob and Yves Berger.

The opening takes place on November 13 at 6:30 p.m. with a lecture by Frédéric Ogée on Ways of Seeing, followed by a screening of John Berger or the Memory of Looking, by Cordelia Dvorak, at 9 p.m. Elia Suleiman and Massoumeh Lahidji are announced for this second session.

On November 14 at 7:30 p.m., Isabel Coixet will present The Secret Life of Words and 100 Years and You Everywhere. A conversation with documentary filmmaker Mike Dibb, co-director of Ways of Seeing, is scheduled for November 19 at 7 p.m.

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The series also explores Berger’s work with Alain Tanner through La Salamandre, Le Milieu du monde and Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000. On November 20 at 9 p.m., a choral reading by Katya, Jacob and Yves Berger accompanies a screening of Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s Taskafa, histoires de la rue, exploring traces of animals in his work.

Screenings take place at 2 rue du Cinéma, in the Forum des Halles, Paris’s 1st arrondissement. Tickets cost €7.50, or €6 at the concession rate; Friday classes cost €5, with preferential rates and free admission available subject to the Forum’s conditions. Reservations open at noon on October 29. Find the schedule for each event and ticketing details in the official program.

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