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New Book Releases
30.06.2025
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Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.

NEWS
28.06.2025
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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.

NEWS
23.06.2025
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From 26 June to 26 July 2025, Cinéma Galeries in Brussels will present a focus programme dedicated to Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing. As part of this programme, the cinema will host a masterclass with the director on Sunday 29 June.

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!

NEWS
30.06.2025
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New Interactive Guide to Every Motion Picture Film Format

Film Atlas is a new joint initiative by FIAF and the George Eastman Museum, made possible through the support of the Louis B. Mayer Foundation. This expansive online resource combines scholarly essays with high-resolution images to trace the history of film as a physical medium – from the beginnings of cinema to the present day.

NEWS
16.06.2025
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On June 8, American film historian and theorist P. Adams Sitney passed away.

NEWS
09.06.2025
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An overview of the graduation screenings of the film schools in Flanders and Brussels.

NEWS
09.06.2025
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Conference and Film Programme at CINEMATEK

From June 11 to 14, CINEMATEK, Université libre de Bruxelles, Women and Film History International (WFHI), and University of Antwerp host the conference Women and the Silent Screen XII: Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema. Over four days, panels will present new research and restorations, highlighting archival (re)discoveries of women’s roles in silent film. In tandem, CINEMATEK presents the Women in Silent Film programme, which continues throughout the summer.

NEWS
02.06.2025
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NEWS
29.05.2025

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NEWS
29.05.2025

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NEWS
29.05.2025

From June 2 to June 6, 2025, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and Bolivian editor, actress, and director Natalia López Gallardo will be hosted in Brussels by RITCS and Erasmushogeschool Brussel.

NEWS
26.05.2025
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French filmmaker and actor Marcel Ophüls passed away at the age of 97.

Obituaries
26.05.2025
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Starting 18 May, Art Cinema OFFoff, in collaboration with Courtisane, Cinema Parenthèse and iMal, presents a four-part film programme dedicated to the experimental cinema of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill.

NEWS
12.05.2025
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This spring, CINEMATEK and Courtisane are hosting a retrospective of American filmmaker Billy Woodberry.

NEWS
07.05.2025
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Japan Society and Metrograph Host Retrospective in New York

This month, Japan Society presents the first part of a rare retrospective on Japanese director Mikio Naruse, Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us, commemorating the 120th anniversary of the master Japanese filmmaker’s birth.

NEWS
05.05.2025
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From 30 April to 11 May, Bozar in Brussels focuses on the work of the South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo. Sabzian is giving away duotickets for several of the planned screenings!

NEWS
23.04.2025
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From 30 April to 11 May, Bozar focuses on the work of Hong Sang-soo in a Close-up. During this incomplete retrospective, Bozar is screening nine of his films, accompanied by guest speakers. 

NEWS
21.04.2025
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On Saturday 26 April 2025, Visite Film Festival #12 is taking place at Out of Sight in Antwerp, offering a programme of several films, performances and conversations. 

NEWS
21.04.2025
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From July 6 to 12, Cinea is organising a new edition of the Zomerfilmcollege, a yearly summer film school taking place in De Cinema in Antwerp that offers seven days of lectures and film screenings, centered around two film historical themes.

NEWS
21.04.2025
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Jocelyne Saab Retrospective in Paris

From 15 to 30 April 2025, Youna Rault and film club Contre-plongée are organising a retrospective on Jocelyne Saab in cooperation with l’Association Jocelyne Saab, highlighting her early and lesser-known work, which will take place at la Filmothèque du Quartier Latin and the cinema 3 Luxembourg in Paris. 

NEWS
14.04.2025
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100 Years Columbia Pictures

​From April 3 to 30, Eye Filmmuseum is hosting The Lady with the Torch, a film program that celebrates the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures.

NEWS
31.03.2025
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Bozar, in collaboration with CINEMATEK, is hosting Close-up: Souleymane Cissé from 1 to 4 April 2025 to honour the late Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, who passed away on 19 February 2025.

NEWS
31.03.2025
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German experimental filmmaker Wilhelm Hein passed away on 15 March.

Obituaries
26.03.2025
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Les bibliothèques flamandes et bruxelloises lancent une nouvelle plateforme de streaming

Cinébib est une nouvelle plateforme de streaming lancée le 14 mars 2025 par près de 40 bibliothèques publiques en Flandre et à Bruxelles. Elle offre aux membres des bibliothèques un accès libre à une sélection soigneusement composée de plus de 1 500 films.

NEWS
19.03.2025

Vlaamse en Brusselse bibliotheken lanceren nieuw streamingplatform

Cinébib is een nieuw streamingplatform dat op 14 maart 2025 werd gelanceerd door bijna 40 openbare bibliotheken in Vlaanderen en Brussel. Het platform biedt bibliotheekleden vrije toegang tot een zorgvuldig geselecteerd aanbod van meer dan 1.500 filmtitels.

NEWS
19.03.2025

On 16 March 2025, Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne passed away at the age of 43.

Obituaries
18.03.2025
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From Wednesday the 2nd to Sunday the 6th of April, the 24th edition of the Courtisane film festival will take place in Ghent, Belgium. As a platform for film and audiovisual arts, the festival describes its mission to explore “the relationships between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.”

NEWS
17.03.2025
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Films as/about Strategies of Territorial Resistance

From 13–16 March, Caillou Film Festival, a new Brussels-based film festival, explores the strategies used in territorial struggles and the role of cinema in resistance.

NEWS
10.03.2025
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From 13 to 15 March, Kaaitheater and KANAL-Centre Pompidou are hosting Cinema as Assembly, a three-day study circle that invites the public to come together – as an audience, as thinkers and as makers – to explore cinema’s potential as both a method and medium that can help rehearse collective organisation, militant imagination and liberatory transformation.

NEWS
07.03.2025
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Malian director and writer Souleymane Cissé passed away on 19 February in Bamako, Mali, at the age of 84.

Obituaries
24.02.2025
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Eye Filmmuseum celebrates the legacy of Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien (1974–1989), a pioneering film collective that sought to amplify the voices of female filmmakers in the Netherlands. Running from 6 to 25 March, the programme links the collective’s work to urgent contemporary themes, fostering intergenerational discussions on equality.

NEWS
24.02.2025
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On 19 February, Quatre nuits d’un rêveur (1971) by Robert Bresson will be re-released in French theatres in a 4K restoration by Carlotta Films.

NEWS
17.02.2025
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Frans van de Staak Retrospective at Punto de Vista Film Festival

For its 2025 edition, running from 24 February to 1 March, the Spanish film festival Punto de Vista will present a retrospective dedicated to the cinema of Dutch filmmaker Frans van de Staak.

NEWS
12.02.2025
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The Theatre of the Matters Hosts Retrospective in New York and Chicago

During the weekend of February 21–23, the itinerant film screening troupe The Theatre of the Matters will host Peasants of the Cinema: António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, a programme dedicated to the cinema of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro.

NEWS
05.02.2025
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