Courtisane 2017

In times of backwardness, one craves for possibilities. From March the 29th, for five days on and for the sixteenth time, cinephiles and filmmakers from all over Belgium and the world gather in Ghent to celebrate cinema and share a horizon of what’s possible on the white screen. “What cinema has excelled in creating are these singular bodies, conveyors of new emotions. Cinephilia isn’t the love for old films; it’s the love for these singular inventions that wreak havoc in our forms of perception and in the tenor of our emotions.” (Jacques Rancière)