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!