Caillou Film Festival
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. The festival will showcase activists in all their diversity, highlighting how film can document, influence, and participate in struggles. Alongside screenings, workshops and discussions will bring together Brussels-based activists to reflect on past successes and future possibilities.
“Through various cinematic forms, you will discover Brussels squats filled with life, farmers in a Japanese village blocking the construction of an airport, the fight for La Plaine in Marseille, children mixing play and sabotage on a construction site in the Marolles or a Parisian suburb, a pirate radio station in Couvin, radical solidarity among different Indigenous peoples in ‘Canada,’ and rituals as resistance against the construction of a naval base on a South Korean island.”
– Lietje Bauwens & Lea Vromman
Screenings include Who’s Afraid of Ideology (Part 1 & 2, Marwa Arsanios), Kosmos (Ruben Desiere, 2015), Le chantier des gosses (Jean Harlez, 1970), and La commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000, in loop).
This collective initiative involves ZINTV, Système D, Avila, Collective Tuba, La Jetée, Tetova Project 2025, and Maison de Quartier Bonnevie.
