Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.

Austrian actor Helmut Berger, known for his long collaboration with Italian director Luchino Visconti, passed away last week at the age of 78.

French writer, essayist and critic Philippe Sollers passed away last week on May 6 at the age of 86.

As a response to Jean-Luc Godard’s statement “We don’t know how to film sexual relations”, Nicole Brenez and Luc Vialle have concocted L’image des plaisirs, a programme of 216 brilliant and radical films, love poems, visual caresses or scopic impulses. The first part, subtitled Sexpérimentaux, takes place from 11 to 28 May in the Cinémathèque française.

Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.

In samenwerking met Een Hart Voor Vluchtelingen toont S.M.A.K. de film Sometimes one hour, sometimes three hours van KASK-student Maaike Jaspers. Van 22 april tot 14 mei is de film te zien in de Barco zaal van het S.M.A.K. te Gent.

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.

Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art – in Berlin is hosting a Kira Muratova retrospective until 23 april.

Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.

Raoul Servais, a Belgian pioneer of animation film, passed away on March 17 at the age of 94.

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.

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.

Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.

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.

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.

Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.

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.

Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.

Until 4 January, Another Screen is hosting the group programme Films from Iran for Iran to show solidarity with the current protest movement in Iran, joining films by women and non-binary filmmakers, made from 1979 to the present day, with a focus on experimental and non-fiction work.

Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.

Sabzian en Bozar zijn verheugd om de Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing te mogen verwelkomen voor de State of Cinema 2022.

Between 19 and 23 November, Halaqat Film Days celebrates the old and the new generation of Arab women directors and actresses, showcasing recent films and productions from the past thanks to a programme that creates a dialogue between the works and the different generations of women directors.

From 17 to 20 November, the four-day festival Visite takes place again at art space Het Bos for its tenth edition, offering 5 film programs, a performance, a concert, a group exhibition, an artist talk, 3 dinners and a breakfast. 

To honor Charlie Chaplin and his genius, arthouse cinema Studio Skoop in Ghent is running a retrospective of ten of his films over the period of one year.

Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.

From 4 October to the end of July 2024, Brussels will celebrate Chantal Akerman, her work and her person, in the form of a cinematic, artistic, literary and architectural journey.

In eleven film programs over four days, from 29 September to 2 October, Electric Shadows Asian Film Festival invites curious cinephiles to discover a diverse selection of wilful films from Asia. 

The Âge d'Or festival will be held again this year in the weekend of 24 and 25 September, in the CINEMATEK of Brussels. 

The French written press is groaning under rising paper prices. To address this crises, twelve cinema magazines have joined forces by writing a letter to the minister of culture and the director of the CNC (Centre national du cinema et de l’image animée).

The fourteenth episode of The Bandwagon, Sabzian’s irregular series of film-related mixes, by editorial member of Sabzian and filmmaker Nina de Vroome.

Kinograph, Flagey and CINEMATEK become partners under the name and logo Cineflagey to present new daily screenings, monthly meetings and emblematic festivals!

Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.

Recently the Polish Film Institute and Wytwόrnia Filmόw Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych (Documentary and Feature Film Studios) launched a new streaming platform entitled 35mm.online, making available a large amount of Polish films freely available online.

Cineville launches a new subscription granting you access to as many great films as you like in three independent cinemas in Brussels, and soon others.

This month, a new generation of graduating film students from LUCA School of Arts, INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion) and KASK School of Arts present their work for the first time.

On June 8, French writer, philosopher, art critic, and cinema theorist Jean-Louis Schefer passed away at the age of 83.

In its new section Passage, Sabzian invites film critics, authors, filmmakers and spectators to send a text or fragment on cinema that left a lasting impression.

Pour sa nouvelle rubrique Passage, Sabzian demande à des critiques de cinéma, auteurs, cinéastes et spectateurs un texte ou un fragment qui les a marqués.

Each month, Sabzian lists upcoming Belgian premieres, releases and festivals.

Sabzian is giving away 5 duotickets for Günter Peter Straschek’s Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland (1975) at CINEMATEK!

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).

Uw steun kan ons helpen om onze kwaliteitsnormen te handhaven en ons de middelen te geven om het werk van onze vrijwilligers te vergoeden. Steun Sabzian!

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!

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.

Filmmakers from all around the world brought together by Docnomads, a joint masters degree program in Europe focused on documentary filmmaking, are organising film screenings in Brussels to raise money for Ukraine.

Dans le cadre de la résidence annuelle organisée par le GSARA, un/e artiste sonore travaillant le son de manière artisanale et un/e artiste visuel/le travaillant le film analogique sont invitées à collaborer ensemble sur la thématique de l’ART BRUT, avec l’œuvre d’Ariane Bergrichter comme point de départ.

In the Maria-Christina street in Laeken, a former art deco cinema is in for a major renovation. Some local residents fear for the future of the building.

Cinema Sphinx will re-release the film Donbass in their theaters from March 2, in collaboration with Imagine Films, as an expression of support for the people of Ukraine.