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Silent Film Festival in Bruges
From 26 to 29 September, the second edition of STOM!, a film festival dedicated to silent film, will take place in Bruges.
Bozar has invited Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul to Brussels for a Close-up program, where he will present his first-ever performative VR project, showcase a selection of his films and film choices, and engage in a conversation about his work.
French independent cinephile label Capricci is re-releasing sixteen films by Chantal Akerman in French cinemas, alongside the release of a Blu-ray box featuring Akerman's feature-length and short films – the most complete collection available worldwide to date.
On the occasion of the appearance of Rebekah Rutkoff’s new book, Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers (2024), Anthology Film Archives presents the first comprehensive U.S. retrospective of Beavers’s work from September 26 to 29.
The sixth edition of SHHH, the festival that celebrates the power and poetry of silent film, hosted by Monokino, will take place in Ostend from 13 to 14 September. This 6th edition is dedicated to The Social Life of Film, an international gathering of nomadic film platforms from various corners of the world.
The Cinémathèque du documentaire at the Bibliothèque publique d’information of Centre Pompidou will showcase the complete filmography of Frederick Wiseman, screening all 46 of his films between September 2024 and March 2025 at the Centre Pompidou.
From 4 to 8 September, Frankfurt based festival exf f. - tage des experimentellen films frankfurt is hosting a four-program retrospective of American experimental filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos, one of the most idiosyncratic and influential figures of avant-garde and experimental film in the post-war period.
Sabzian is going into summer mode. During July and August, Sabzian will publish at a reduced pace. We'll be back to full speed in September!
To mark the beginning of our summer break, we offer you an overview of the texts we have published over the past year, which we hope will end up on your summer reading list!
The sun is out and so is the cinema-goer. Here is a list of cinema events for the summer (mostly outdoors), so you don’t have to miss the silver screen in the summer break.
Retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London
In collaboration with Another Gaze Editions, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London presents a full retrospective of Marguerite Duras’ work. The retrospective will include her shorts, features and televisual work, alongside several works in literal or theoretical conversation with hers.
L’Atelier de Production du GSARA organise une résidence annuelle invitant un.e artiste sonore artisan et un.e artiste visuel.le spécialisé.e en film analogique (super8, 16mm) à créer un court métrage de 10 à 15 minutes sur la diversité bio-culturelle, en prenant comme point de départ le Marais Wiels à Forest.
An overview of the graduation screenings of the film schools in Flanders and Brussels.
The Harvard Film Archive recently launched a new section called “Conversations” on their website. The conversations are part of The Harvard Film Archive Visiting Artists Collection documenting visitors to the HFA’s cinematheque.
From 8 June to 30 August, Courtisane is hosting the programme We Have Long Been Silent, an expanded version of the programme of the same name presented at the Courtisane festival earlier this year, at CINEMATEK.
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Earlier this month, the Goethe-Institut launched Goethe on Demand, a new streaming platform which presents a variety of online film programs, film festivals and film series that can be streamed from home.
On the weekend of May 25 and 26, Pieter Van Bogaert, critic, programmer and curator, presents Fort Beau at CINEMATEK: a programme made up of a subjective selection of works and artists who reflect on the history of the last fifty years.
Last week, on May 9, the legendary Hollywood producer and filmmaker Roger Corman passed away.
From July 7 to 13, Cinea is organising a new edition of the Zomerfilmcollege, a yearly summer film school taking place in Antwerp that offers seven days to immerse yourself in two film historical themes, through fifteen or so lectures and some twenty film screenings.
Films, Talks and Events at Filmmuseum Eye in Amsterdam
From 10 to 24 May, Filmmuseum Eye in Amsterdam is hosting a series of talks, films and events entitled ‘Songs and Scenes from Palestine’, a programme dedicated to the history and cultural identity of the Palestinian people through their own lens, in collaboration with the Palestine Film Institute.
From 27 April to 27 May, the platform for film and audiovisual arts, Courtisane, is presenting a retrospective of the works by Yvonne Rainer at CINEMATEK.
Renowned Italian film critic, historian, filmmaker, actor, book editor, and teacher, Adriano Aprà, passed away last week on April 15th.
Film theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey will visit Brussels for a Bozar program paralleling the Chantal Akerman: Travelling exhibition. On 11 May, she will discuss Chantal Akerman’s impact on cinema, from theory to practice. Sabzian is giving away 10 tickets for this event!
On April 19th, R(a/u)pture 1, a new experimental film event, will take place for the first time in Hasselt. The event is organised by the new collective of creators, thinkers, programmers and spectators known as R(a/u)pture.
Last week, German filmmaker and programmer Wolfgang Kolb passed away in Brussels.
On the weekend of 22 March, NW (Netwerk Aalst) is festively opening a brand-new building with a series of new film programmes and exhibitions. The whole weekend will be dedicated to encounters, rituals, films, performances, kitchen stories, workshops, and listening moments.
A Conversation with Artistic Director Pieter-Paul Mortier
From Wednesday 27 March to Sunday 31 March, the twenty-third Courtisane Festival will take place in Ghent, Belgium. During the festival, Courtisane, a platform for film and audiovisual arts, will explore the relationships between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experimentation and engagement. Pieter-Paul Mortier, artistic director of the festival, guides us through this year’s programme.
Een gesprek met artistiek leider Pieter-Paul Mortier
Van woensdag 27 maart tot en met zondag 31 maart vindt het 23ste Courtisane festival plaats in Gent. Tijdens het festival onderzoekt Courtisane, een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten, de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement. Pieter-Paul Mortier, artistiek en zakelijk leider van het festival, gidst ons door het programma van dit jaar.
From 18 to 31 March, the Cinémathèque française in Paris is hosting a complete retrospective of French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert. The retrospective coincides with the release of Philibert’s new film Averroès & Rosa Parks (2024) in French theatres.
The Italian director Paolo Taviani passed away on the 29th of February. It marks an end to a long cinematic journey which begins back in the 1950's with his life long collaborator and brother Vittorio Taviani.
American film scholar and writer David Bordwell passed away last week on 29 February.
From March to July, BOZAR and CINEMATEK are hosting a joint retrospective of the life and work of Belgian film director Chantal Akerman. We listed all the activities and events for the coming months.
Screening of Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel at Kaaitheater
On Sunday 3 March, Kaaitheater in Brussels is showing Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel by Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi. The film will be shown in the context of Refusing to Disappear, a series of decentralised film screenings and discussions organised by United Screens for Palestine, held in different cities and venues across Belgium to celebrate the rich legacy of Palestinian storytelling through films.
From 29 February to 20 March, Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam will screen an extensive retrospective of French filmmaker Claire Denis.
Na tien edities verdwijnt de internationaal gerenommeerde Contour Biënnale voor Bewegend Beeld. De sector van de audiovisuele en beeldende kunsten is een petitie gestart om het verdwijnen van de biënnale te voorkomen.
After ten editions, the internationally renowned Contour Biennial of Moving Images is now slated to disappear. The audiovisual arts sector launched a petition to avert its cancellation.
On Wednesday 21 February, the universities of Ghent, Antwerp, and Namur are collaborating to present a two-day symposium on post-war Belgian cinema. In collaboration with CINEMATEK, five film screenings have also been curated, all of which will be introduced by symposium participants.
From 14 February to 10 March, the Cinémathèque française in Paris is hosting an extensive retrospective of Boris Barnet, one of the most notable figures of Soviet cinema.
Na Fantômas stopt ook het filmtijdschrift Humbug, dat voor het eerst verscheen in 2021, met haar printedities.
From 20 February until 14 May, Cinema RITCS (with the support of UAB (Universitaire Associatie Brussel)), presents ‘The Power of Belgian Cinema’, an assortment of 11 lectures in English by 11 Belgian film scholars on important movements, films, filmmakers in the moving history of Belgian cinema.
Cinema Scope’s editor-in-chief Mark Peranson announced the closure of the Canadian journal.
The 5th edition of Festival En ville! will take place in Brussels cinemas from 29 January to 4 February 2024.
Van donderdag 11 tot en met zondag 14 januari vindt in Eindhoven het Nederlands Silent Film Festival plaats, een festival ter viering van stille films. Het festival biedt 13 filmprogramma’s aan met live muziekbegeleiding in Pand P en het Muziekgebouw Eindhoven.
Sabzian is taking a break. We’ll be back on 8 January. Best wishes and Happy New Year!
Supernova Coop, the cooperative associated with the iconic Cinema Nova in Brussels, has launched a new program to achieve the goal of acquiring their cinema building. The program starts on 11 January and includes a diverse array of films, meetings, exhibitions, concerts, and special events.
Georgian filmmaker Otar Iosseliani, born in 1934 in Tbilisi, passed away yesterday at the age of 89.
Ciné Rio (Ghent) and Cinema Nova (Brussels) welcome you to their first joint Kino Climates symposium!
20th Anniversary Edition
Art Cinema OFFoff celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special edition of the Night of Experimental Film on 8 December at De Centrale, Ghent.
On Monday the 13th of November, film critic and longtime editor of Positif magazine Michel Ciment died at age 85.
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) recently found itself embroiled in a controversy as several filmmakers – including Sky Hopinka, Miko Revereza, Maryam Tafakory, Charlie Shackleton, and Basma al-Sharif – withdrew their documentaries over allegations that the festival was stifling Palestinian activists.
Sabzian launches all-new website!
The first and main aim of this all-new design is to make our growing archive more visible and accessible, not least through a number of new features such as the Film Index, Issues, Collections, Screening Room, Audio Room and a further elaborated Search function.
Sabzian lanceert gloednieuwe website!
Het eerste en belangrijkste doel van dit volledig nieuwe ontwerp is om het groeiende archief zichtbaarder en toegankelijker te maken, niet in het minst door een aantal nieuwe functies zoals de Film Index, Issues, Collections, Screening Room, Audio Room en een verder uitgewerkte zoekfunctie.
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Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui passed away on October 14th alongside his wife, Vadideh Mohammadifar, after a fatal attack at their home.
From November 15 to 19, Bozar, ISELP and CINEMATEK invite you back for the sixth edition of the Brussels Art Film Festival (BAFF).
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Cinéma Nova needs your support! Help them acquire the long-term lease of the cinema building located at number 3 rue d’Arenberg in Brussels, by supporting their recently started cooperative Supernova Coop.
From 15 to 23 November, the Antwerp based collective De imagerie organizes their eleventh edition of Visite Film Festival at art space Het Bos.
On Monday, November 6, film students from KASK School of Arts and KASK Resistance are organizing a screening at KASKcinema in solidarity with Palestine.
Ten years ago, Belgian critic Dirk Lauwaert (1944-2013) passed away. In November, two new books dedicated to Lauwaert’s writing will be released, followed by two film screenings related to his work in December at Cinema RITCS.
From 25 to 28 October, Beursschouwburg and Monokino are presenting two film programs composed by Erika Balsom.
Until 21 October, the Palestine Film Institute is presenting a series of films celebrating Gaza, its people, its struggle and its survival.
Terence Davies, the British filmmaker and novelist, passed away on October 7 at the age of 77.
Starting on October 5th, Goethe-Institut Brussels and CINEMATEK present the first complete retrospective of the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub in Belgium.
The Âge d’Or festival will be held again this year from 30 September to 3 October, in the CINEMATEK of Brussels.
On the occasion of the exhibition Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game at WIELS from 7 September 2023 until 7 January 2024, Avila releases a collection of nine iconic films by Belgian artist Francis Alÿs. All films are globally available for free.
For the fifth time, SHHH, a film festival celebrating the power and poetry of silent film hosted by Monokino, will take place in Ostend from September 15 to 16.
Sabzian is taking a summer break. We’ll be back in September!
SIC (SoundImageCulture) recently launched it’s yearly call for new film projects. They’re in search of projects that are authentic and push the borders of audiovisual language, with care for aesthetic and ethical reflections.
This month, a new generation of graduating film students from INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion), RITCS Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound and KASK School of Arts present their work for the first time.
The sun is out and so is the cinema-goer. Sabzian made a list of cinema events for the summer (mostly outdoors), so you don’t have to miss the silver screen in the summer break.
On 8 June, Le p’tit ciné (Festival en ville!, Regards sur les docs) is hosting a special screening of the newly restored film Couple, Regards, Positions (1982), by Nadine Wandel and Boris Lehman, at Cinéma Palace.
From 16 June to 17 September, Jeu de Paume in Paris is hosting a major retrospective of Dutch filmmaker and photographer Johan van der Keuken.
On the occasion of the publication of The Afterimage Reader (The Visible Press, 2022) and in collaboration with CINEMATEK, Courtisane presents 12 screenings of films, mostly from CINEMATEK’s collection, that revive the British magazine Afterimage (1970-1987). Each screening is linked to an issue of the magazine.
Sound of Politics, Politics of Sound: Conversations and Sonic Entanglements
From 2 to 3 June, the first installment of Echoes of Dissent will take place at beursschouwburg in Brussels. The program is the first part of a series of gatherings gravitating around the question: How to think of the sonic as a site of dissent?
Austrian actor Helmut Berger, known for his long collaboration with Italian director Luchino Visconti, passed away last week at the age of 78.
Navire Argo, a French non-profit organization, has plans to create a vibrant new filmmaker’s hub in the former Éclair laboratory near Paris, dedicated to preserving photochemical film.
French writer, essayist and critic Philippe Sollers passed away last week on May 6 at the age of 86.
From July 9 to 15, Cinea invites you back to Antwerp for their yearly Zomerfilmcollege.
As a response to Jean-Luc Godard’s statement “We don’t know how to film sexual relations”, Nicole Brenez and Luc Vialle have concocted L’image des plaisirs, a programme of 216 brilliant and radical films, love poems, visual caresses or scopic impulses. The first part, subtitled Sexpérimentaux, takes place from 11 to 28 May in the Cinémathèque française.
Four times a year, the Deutsche Kinemathek presents a program of their films, which you can watch for free for three months. Until 14 July they present Female Perspectives, a program with nine feature and documentary films portraying women in front of and behind the camera.
On Friday 28 April MOUV’, the travelling cinema of Forest in Brussels, brings together film professionals for two roundtable discussions to exchange views on new forms of cinema and the role of (neighbourhood) cinema.
In samenwerking met Een Hart Voor Vluchtelingen toont S.M.A.K. de film Sometimes one hour, sometimes three hours van KASK-student Maaike Jaspers. Van 22 april tot 14 mei is de film te zien in de Barco zaal van het S.M.A.K. te Gent.
Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art – in Berlin is hosting a Kira Muratova retrospective until 23 april.
Recently Belgian streamingplatform Avila released a new collection dedicated to the short experimental work of Belgian film pioneer Charles Dekeukeleire.
At the invitation of CINEMATEK and as prelude to C0N10UR, an eight-week exhibition in the city of Mechelen scheduled for next autumn and curated by Auguste Orts, some of the artists participating in the biennial event will present film works: Elephy, Mieriën Coppens & Elie Maisin, Annik Leroy, Rosine Mbakam and Subversive Film.
From April 20 to 23 Het Bos in Antwerp hosts the exhibition Reel Real Double Time by visual artist Ans Mertens.
Pelliculot, in collaboration with the Bruges Library, UGent, and CINEMATEK, has put together a trilogy centered around the film La kermesse héroïque (Jacques Feyder, 1936). With an exhibition, lecture, and film screening, they aim to shed new light on this controversial film.
Raoul Servais, a Belgian pioneer of animation film, passed away on March 17 at the age of 94.
On the occasion of the 2023 edition of Courtisane, we browsed through our archive and compiled this reading list for the upcoming festival.
Every year, the collective Elles Tournent organises the Elles tournent / Dames draaien Festival where women directors are invited to present their films and exchange with the public. This year the festival takes place from 22 to 27 March.
Café Lumière: An Homage to Cinema is een nieuwe cinefiele website gelanceerd door filmonderzoekers Ive Verdoodt en Tim Deschaumes. De website wil vluchtige kijkervaringen een meer bestendig karakter geven en bij uitstek filmische momenten vieren.
On 4 March, SoundImageCulture invites you for an afternoon & evening of screenings, discussions, and warm soup on the occasion of the Brussels launch of the anthology Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter.
Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye passed away on 22 February at the age of 79. Faye was a groundbreaking figure in African cinema and the first Black woman from sub-Saharan Africa to direct a commercially distributed film.
Next month, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen will premiere Philippe Grandrieux’s new staging of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. On this occasion, three of his films will be screened in Flemish cinemas.
The annual Classics Restored Festival organised by Cinea is returning on March 3rd, visiting six different Belgian cinemas with a rich program of recently restored films.
As a tribute to film composer Angelo Badalamenti, KASKcinema is screening the first four episodes of Twin Peaks (1990-1991) this Sunday afternoon.
Two films by Belgian-Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi, Fertile Memory (1981) and Ma’loul Celebrates Its Destruction (1985), are newly available to stream on Avila.
On the the occasion of the closing day of the exhibition It Might be a Mirage, West Den Haag will hold a special screening tomorrow of Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinema, the monumental film essay the late director released in 1998 to commemorate one hundred years of cinema.
The documentary film festival Festival En Ville ! is back for its 4th edition in Brussels cinemas from January 30 to February 5.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jonas Mekas, Arsenal is hosting a program about Mekas’s work this month, addressing the political dimensions of his oeuvre.
Starting from 18 January, independent cinephile label Capricci is launching a new retrospective of 10 restored films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for distribution in French theatres.
Canadian painter, jazz pianist, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker Michael Snow passed away on 5 January.
Sabzian is taking a break. We’ll be back on 9 January. Best wishes and Happy New Year!
Until 4 January, Another Screen is hosting the group programme Films from Iran for Iran to show solidarity with the current protest movement in Iran, joining films by women and non-binary filmmakers, made from 1979 to the present day, with a focus on experimental and non-fiction work.
From December 15, Eye Filmmuseum is releasing five new Béla Tarr restorations in Dutch film theaters.
Pour l’édition 2022 du State of Cinema, Sabzian et Bozar ont le plaisir d’accueillir le réalisateur chinois Wang Bing.
Sabzian en Bozar zijn verheugd om de Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing te mogen verwelkomen voor de State of Cinema 2022.
On 20 November, French filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub passed away at the age of 89.
Between 19 and 23 November, Halaqat Film Days celebrates the old and the new generation of Arab women directors and actresses, showcasing recent films and productions from the past thanks to a programme that creates a dialogue between the works and the different generations of women directors.
Sabzian and Bozar are delighted to welcome Chinese director Wang Bing for the State of Cinema 2022.
From 17 to 20 November, the four-day festival Visite takes place again at art space Het Bos for its tenth edition, offering 5 film programs, a performance, a concert, a group exhibition, an artist talk, 3 dinners and a breakfast.
To honor Charlie Chaplin and his genius, arthouse cinema Studio Skoop in Ghent is running a retrospective of ten of his films over the period of one year.
From 21 to 23 October, SoundImageCulture invites you to Boundary Encounters: Fictional strategies in reality-based film – a weekend-long program of screenings, presentations, shared meals and conversations, to collectively reflect on the incorporation of fiction within reality-based film.
Du 4 octobre à la fin juillet 2024, Bruxelles fêtera Chantal Akerman, son œuvre et sa personne, sous la forme d’un parcours cinématographique, artistique, littéraire et architectural.
From 4 October to the end of July 2024, Brussels will celebrate Chantal Akerman, her work and her person, in the form of a cinematic, artistic, literary and architectural journey.
Van 4 oktober tot eind juli 2024 viert Brussel Chantal Akerman, haar werk en haar persoon, in de vorm van een cinematografisch, artistiek, literair en architecturaal parcours doorheen Brussel.
In eleven film programs over four days, from 29 September to 2 October, Electric Shadows Asian Film Festival invites curious cinephiles to discover a diverse selection of wilful films from Asia.
The Âge d'Or festival will be held again this year in the weekend of 24 and 25 September, in the CINEMATEK of Brussels.
Jean-Luc Godard has passed away.
The French written press is groaning under rising paper prices. To address this crises, twelve cinema magazines have joined forces by writing a letter to the minister of culture and the director of the CNC (Centre national du cinema et de l’image animée).
From 9 to 11 September the fourth edition of SHHH, a filmfestival celebrating the power and poetry of silent film hosted by Monokino, takes place in Ostend.
Kinograph, Flagey and CINEMATEK become partners under the name and logo Cineflagey to present new daily screenings, monthly meetings and emblematic festivals!
Sabzian is taking a summer break. We’ll be back in September!
Iranian filmmakers Mohamad Rasoulof, Mostafa Al-Ahmad and Jafar Pahani, have been detained and are currently being persecuted as a result of their work in Iran.
Recently the Polish Film Institute and Wytwόrnia Filmόw Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (Documentary and Feature Film Studios) launched a new streaming platform entitled 35mm.online, making available a large amount of Polish films freely available online.
After two years of absence, Cinema Palace's summer film programme Sun Screens is finally back!
Cineville launches a new subscription granting you access to as many great films as you like in three independent cinemas in Brussels, and soon others.
This month, a new generation of graduating film students from LUCA School of Arts, INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion) and KASK School of Arts present their work for the first time.
On June 8, French writer, philosopher, art critic, and cinema theorist Jean-Louis Schefer passed away at the age of 83.
After three years of temporary occupation, the Brussels-based community cinema Kinograph will close its doors at the end of June. To say farewell, they invite you to a weekend of screenings, encounters, talks and parties.
On the 17th and 18th of June a symposium and film program about Marcel Broodthaers and cinema will take place at CINEMATEK.
The layoffs at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) of almost all senior or long-time programmers provoked a debate about the future of the festival and the precarity of the profession of festival programmers.
Sabzian is giving away 5 duotickets for Günter Peter Straschek’s Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland (1975) at CINEMATEK!
CINEA’s annual Zomerfilmcollege (Summer Film School) will take place from 10 to 16 July at De Cinema in Antwerp. In more than fifteen talks (all in English) and twenty screenings of mostly rare archival 35mm prints, this year's edition will focus on 1970s German Romantic cinema and the 1930s oeuvre of John Ford.
Starting in the last week of May, the Goethe-Institute and Cinematek, in collaboration with Sabzian, host an exhibition and retrospective of German filmmaker and - historian Günter Peter Straschek (1942-2009).
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Sabzian is giving away 10 duotickets for Virgil Vernier’s Sophia Antipolis (2018), tonight – Friday 29 April – at 20:00 in De Singel in Antwerp!
Martin Scorsese’s nonprofit The Film Foundation is launching a free virtual screening room to showcase restored films starting May 9 with I Know Where I’m Going!.
French director Virgil Vernier is coming to De Singel in Antwerp for two evenings in the context of CARTA, a new biennial festival looking to showcase video art, installations, new music, film concerts and more.
Kino Slang, the film blog of Andy Rector, is currently showing Jean-Marie Straub’s CORNEILLE–BRECHT as part of its online quarantine series.
Filmmakers from all around the world brought together by Docnomads, a joint masters degree program in Europe focused on documentary filmmaking, are organising film screenings in Brussels to raise money for Ukraine.
Dans le cadre de la résidence annuelle organisée par le GSARA, un/e artiste sonore travaillant le son de manière artisanale et un/e artiste visuel/le travaillant le film analogique sont invitées à collaborer ensemble sur la thématique de l’ART BRUT, avec l’œuvre d’Ariane Bergrichter comme point de départ.
On the occasion of the 2022 edition of Courtisane, we browsed through our archive and compiled this reading list for the upcoming festival.
In the Maria-Christina street in Laeken, a former art deco cinema is in for a major renovation. Some local residents fear for the future of the building.
Kira Muratova’s film Dolgie provody [The Long Farewell] (1971) will be made available to watch until April 5 on the French Cinémathèque’s online streaming platform Henri as an act of solidarity with Ukraine.
Cinema Sphinx will re-release the film Donbass in their theaters from March 2, in collaboration with Imagine Films, as an expression of support for the people of Ukraine.
Pier Paolo Pasolini was born one hundred years ago, on the 5th of March, 1922. To celebrate his centenary, several screenings, programs and exhibitions are organised in Belgium and abroad.
Starting from March 3rd, the annual Classics Restored Festival hosted by Cinea takes place in Ghent, Antwerpen and Kortrijk, screening recently restored films from all over the world.
On the 4th and 5th of March, Kaaitheater hosts Ciné Place-Making, a two-day study circle on place-making in film curated by artist and researcher Robin Vanbesien.
Five arthouse cinemas in Brussels announced the launch of a new monthly subscription.
In het kader van de lopende tentoonstelling Circonstances over de Franse pedagoog Fernand Deligny organiseren filmmaker Mattijs Driesen en pedagoog Nancy Vansieleghem van LUCA School of Arts een workshopreeks in het Gentse Museum Dr. Guislain.
Home Cinema, the collective responsible for the occupation of the renowned Cinema La Clef in Paris, is under threat of expulsion since the beginning of February. In response, a campaign has recently been launched to prevent it.
American documentary filmmaker and activist John B. Douglas passed away on January 25.
Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense (1978) by Boris Lehman will be screened in the Grand Hospice Pacheco on February 5.
On January 17, the French actor Michel Subor passed away at the age of 86 as a result of a car accident.
The entire filmography of French filmmaker Jean Eustache is undergoing meticulous restoration to be rereleased in the coming months.
The corona pandemic has forced cultural organizations to rethink the relationship to their audience. Denderland TV is one of the many initiatives that arose from the search for alternative ways of communication.
Earlier this month, American critic, filmmaker and actor Peter Bogdanovich passed away at the age of 82.
Sabzian is taking a break. We’ll be back on 10 January. Best wishes and Happy New Year!
Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.
This month, the French filmmagazine Trafic celebrates its 120th issue and thirty years of existence. Sadly, it also signals the end of a long cycle, this winter’s edition will be the last.
Nadat het Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF) het nieuwe Vlaamse filmtijdschrift Fantômas opstartsteun toekende, heeft het nu vijf maanden later besloten om de werking in 2022 niet te steunen.
Belgian producer, director, presenter and TV pioneer Annie Declerck has passed away.
Gus Van Sant, American filmmaker known for My Own Private Idaho (1991), Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003) and Paranoid Park (2007), is presenting a theatre production in DE SINGEL in Antwerp.
From 11 to 14 November, Visite Film Festival welcomes you back for its 9th edition.
On 15 October, Iranian-French writer Youssef Ishaghpour passed away at the age of 81.
From 20 to 24 October, Ghent is once again center stage for the 20th edition of the Courtisane festival.
In October, both the Centre Pompidou in Paris and De Cinema in Antwerp are screening the work of American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt.
10 years ago, the first bricks were laid for the house that would become known as On Cinema. Happy birthday!
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After a succesful opening weekend, Beursschouwburg organises Black Archive, a decolonial approach to experimental cinema from 21 to 23 September, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Collectif Jeune Cinéma.
American actress Kaycee Moore passed away at the age of 77.
The French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo has passed away. He was 88 years old.
At the Âge d’or Weekend in CINEMATEK (September 18-20), three young researchers and artists present a series of film programs and a lecture.
On September 16, Art Cinema OFFoff presents the Night of the Experimental Film at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.
Van 2 tot 5 september stelt Electric Shadows een eerste filmfestival met een selectie van Aziatische cinema voor in De Cinema in Antwerpen.
In het weekend van 3 en 4 september 2021 vindt in Oostende voor de derde keer het stille filmfestival SHHH plaats.
Sabzian is taking a summer break. We’ll be back in September!
Brazil’s oldest institution for the preservation and restoration of audivisual history, the Cinemateca Brasileira based in São Paulo, has suffered yet another major setback when its main warehouses were hit by fire on 30 July, probably due to a technical malfunction.
On 27 July, French actor and director Jean-François Stévenin passed away at the age of 77.
Today, Chris Marker (29 July 1921 - 29 July 2012) would have turned 100 years old.
The Belgian producer Anne Deligne, cofounder of the production house Cobra Films, has passed away.
This August, the Belgian collective De Imagerie hosts its Visite Film Festival at Het Bos in Antwerp. Visite composes a program featuring work of invited makers and an inspirational film of their choice, with a focus on documentary and experimental cinema.
The Research Centre for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerp has put out a call for papers for the two-day conference ‘Poetic Insurrections’ (20-21 January 2022).
Last week, Hungary’s parliament passed a bill for the supposed protection of minors against the “promotion of homosexuality”. Following these worrying reports of censorship, Sabzian would like to highlight some important films where homosexual or queer relationships take centre stage.
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New Book Releases
Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.
Belgian Premieres and Festivals
Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.
