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The fourth edition of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World, organised by Filmlab Palestine, will take place on 2 November 2026, marking the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. The initiative brings Palestinian cinema to audiences worldwide, inviting cinemas, universities, cultural centres and community groups to organise screenings that highlight Palestinian stories, histories and lived experiences.
On 6 November, Art Cinema OFFoff returns with a new edition of the Night of the Experimental Film, taking over the concert hall at Het Bos in Antwerp. The programme brings together analog multi-projection, live music, film performances and installation, with a focus on works that push the boundaries of cinema.
From 22 October to 13 December, the ICA in London presents a major retrospective of Shōhei Imamura, one of post-war Japan’s most distinctive filmmakers. More than 25 years after the UK’s last major Imamura retrospective, the programme brings together new restorations, rarely seen works, contextual screenings and guest introductions, alongside a new monograph on his work.
On the 17th and 18th of June a symposium and film program about Marcel Broodthaers and cinema will take place at CINEMATEK.
The layoffs at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) of almost all senior or long-time programmers provoked a debate about the future of the festival and the precarity of the profession of festival programmers.
Sabzian is giving away 5 duotickets for Günter Peter Straschek’s Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland (1975) at CINEMATEK!
CINEA’s annual Zomerfilmcollege (Summer Film School) will take place from 10 to 16 July at De Cinema in Antwerp. In more than fifteen talks (all in English) and twenty screenings of mostly rare archival 35mm prints, this year's edition will focus on 1970s German Romantic cinema and the 1930s oeuvre of John Ford.
Starting in the last week of May, the Goethe-Institute and Cinematek, in collaboration with Sabzian, host an exhibition and retrospective of German filmmaker and - historian Günter Peter Straschek (1942-2009).
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Sabzian is giving away 10 duotickets for Virgil Vernier’s Sophia Antipolis (2018), tonight – Friday 29 April – at 20:00 in De Singel in Antwerp!
Martin Scorsese’s nonprofit The Film Foundation is launching a free virtual screening room to showcase restored films starting May 9 with I Know Where I’m Going!.
French director Virgil Vernier is coming to De Singel in Antwerp for two evenings in the context of CARTA, a new biennial festival looking to showcase video art, installations, new music, film concerts and more.
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