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.