At the end of the year, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse invites film buffs and music lovers to come and discover its new festival, “SYNCHRO”. An event entirely dedicated to cine-concert and silent cinema which will take place from November 30 to December 4 in Toulouse and throughout the Occitanie region. [Partenariat]

Cine-concerts and silent films have always been part of the DNA of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse. Since the 1980s, the Cinémathèque has continued to relaunch this form of entertainment in France, in particular with the major film concerts presented at the Avignon Festival from 1980 to 1985, in collaboration with Christian Belaygue.

Today the SYNCHRO festival promises to pay tribute to around thirty masterpieces of silent cinema in Toulouse, in around twenty places in the Metropolis and in the Occitanie region.

“Cinema was mute from birth” according to the writer Tristan Bernard (1866-1947). But has he ever really been? With live music, the images have always been enhanced by the chords of the musicians forming an inseparable duo.

The SYNCHRO festival invites you to (re)discover silent film works through the eyes of musicians with very different approaches. Piano, electro, jazz, rock, all styles participate in bringing to life these films devoid of dialogue and yet so expressive.

Putting the Mute back on stage: it’s not giving him the floor (which he doesn’t have), it’s giving him the music he’s always had in the rhythm of his editing (and in the show of his early days)

Jean Paul Gorce, General Delegate of the Cinémathèque from 1983 to 1997

Loulou with Louise Brooks in opening, The gold Rush of Charly Chaplinaccompanied by ICapitol National Orchestra, and Nosferatus by F.W. Murnauwith Thierry Escaich on the organ, are part of the thirty treasures of silent cinema for this first edition. See all the program

The opportunity to (re)see the great classics and make amazing musical discoveries!

At the same time, SYNHCRO will offer an exhibition ofGaumont postersstages open at the start of the evening, with more experimental proposals, and a playful and participatory installation at the ThéâtredelaCité to explore the musical accompaniment of silent cinema. Learn more

What a reminder that cinema is above all a spectacle and that it is still very much alive!

See you from November 30 to December 4 at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, but also at the Halle aux Grains, at the Garonne theatre, at the Church of the Gesù, at the ThéâtredelaCité and everywhere in Occitanie.

France 3 Occitanie is a partner of the SYNCHRO festival at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse.