Brazil’s oldest institution for the preservation and restoration of audivisual history, the Cinemateca Brasileira based in São Paulo, has suffered yet another major setback when its main warehouses were hit by fire on 30 July, probably due to a technical malfunction.

On 27 July, French actor and director Jean-François Stévenin passed away at the age of 77.

Today, Chris Marker (29 July 1921 - 29 July 2012) would have turned 100 years old.

The Belgian producer Anne Deligne, cofounder of the production house Cobra Films, has passed away.

This August, the Belgian collective De Imagerie hosts its Visite Film Festival at Het Bos in Antwerp. Visite composes a program featuring work of invited makers and an inspirational film of their choice, with a focus on documentary and experimental cinema.

The Research Centre for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerp has put out a call for papers for the two-day conference ‘Poetic Insurrections’ (20-21 January 2022).

Last week, Hungary’s parliament passed a bill for the supposed protection of minors against the “promotion of homosexuality”. Following these worrying reports of censorship, Sabzian would like to highlight some important films where homosexual or queer relationships take centre stage.

On Tuesday 29 June, the master students of the Audiovisual Arts department of KASK / School of Arts in Ghent present their graduation projects in Sphinx Cinema.