Nuit Blanche 2025 highlights cinema with Valérie Donzelli and Michel Gondry

The French director is the artistic director of the 2025 edition, which is held on June 7.

White This year will be in the colors of the 7th art. The city of Paris has decided to pay tribute to the cinema, which is celebrating its 130th birthday, for the 24th edition of the event. The French director Valérie Donzelli (which won a César in 2024 for its last feature film, Love and forests) was chosen as artistic director of Nuit Blanche 2025. And she concocted a program that promises to transform the capital into a film set.

As part of her carte blanche, the filmmaker ordered an animated short film at Michel Gondrythat she co-written with him and therefore she signs the voice-over. Entirely made of stop motion (precisely in cut papers), What a sleepless night! will kick off the evening on the forecourt of Montparnasse station (15th), from 7 p.m. A film that “represents this defense of art that is both joyful, craft and political“explains Valérie Donzelli. The director ofEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind also signed the Nuit Blanche 2025 poster.

The music box of What a sleepless night! Created by Michel Gondry will also come to life in the city, via a participatory sound installation located in Stalingrad (19th). A committed lullaby that will play the revolutionary anthem The International. The artist Adrien Lamm will establish his Moon in the house On the Ile Saint-Louis (4th), where a scenography of the chief op Céline Bozon will also be installed: Lunar spikes.

Valérie Donzelli also chose to pay tribute to six great directors through projections of films in the street, whose One sings, the other not Agnès Varda (on the forecourt of the town hall of the 14th), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Brusselsthe feminist masterpiece of Chantal Akerman (Place des fêtes in the 19th) and Be beautiful and shut up Delphine Seyrig (rue Charlemagne, in the 4th).

A rich and ambitious program for this now essential meeting of culture in Grand Paris (30 municipalities are affected) which attracts nearly a million visitors each year.

Find all the information on the Nuit Blanche 2025 website