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Sabzian x Avila
22.10.2025
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Together with Avila, the non-profit film distributor dedicated to showcasing Belgian auteur cinema online and in cinemas, we’re happy to present a curated selection of interviews from our archive with Belgian filmmakers whose work can be watched on Avila. These include, among others, Ellen Vermeulen, Bas Devos, Eric de Kuyper, Boris Lehman, the Dardenne brothers, as well as several founding members of Sabzian. A rich collection of voices that spans more than half a century of Belgian film history.
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Trás-os-Montes by the Portuguese duo António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro is an unclassifiable piece of ethnographic fiction about a remote region in northern Portugal. Far removed from the capital of Lisbon, time appears to pass differently in the small villages that are connected through myths haunting the mountainous landscape. The way in which Reis endows daily life with meaning through well-chosen cuts and precise framing would inspire many Portuguese filmmakers in his wake, not in the least Glauber Rocha and Pedro Costa. Before the screening at KASKCinema, filmmaker Sakis Brönnimann will give an introduction.
Belgian filmmaker Annik Leroy is Artist in Focus at CINEMATEK all through autumn. Given carte blanche to pair her films with works she admires, this week she has chosen for us Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring’s Fluchtweg nach Marseille (1977). The essay film follows the trail of German emigrants who fled to Marseille during WWII. Its plot is structured around Anna Seghers’ novel Transit, in which the German-Jewish writer fictionalizes her experience of exile in France. Retracing her journey, the film dialogues with the book, bringing it to life as actors recite its passages. Through archival material, interviews and poetic images of contemporary France, the film evokes “flashes of the past in the present”, to use the famous words of Walter Benjamin, also a German exile who attempted to escape through Marseille.
The last pick of the week is a special one. Fallen Leaves is Isabelle Huppert’s film of choice to accompany her State of Cinema, organized by Sabzian and Bozar on the 9th of November in the Henry Le Boeuf theatre. Melancholy and hope are not mutually exclusive in Kaurismäki’s simple yet humorous tale of love and loneliness in modern-day Helsinki. In his signature stylized, almost cartoonish aesthetic, the Finnish director follows lost souls as they stumble through life, treating them with sympathy and tenderness. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Huppert and French critic Jean-Michel Frodon.
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