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24.02.2022

On the 4th and 5th of March, Kaaitheater hosts Ciné Place-Making, a two-day study circle on place-making in film curated by artist and researcher Robin Vanbesien.

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20.02.2022

In het kader van de lopende tentoonstelling Circonstances over de Franse pedagoog Fernand Deligny organiseren filmmaker Mattijs Driesen en pedagoog Nancy Vansieleghem van LUCA School of Arts een workshopreeks in het Gentse Museum Dr. Guislain.

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14.02.2022

Home Cinema, the collective responsible for the occupation of the renowned Cinema La Clef in Paris, is under threat of expulsion since the beginning of February. In response, a campaign has recently been launched to prevent it.

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24.01.2022

On January 17, the French actor Michel Subor passed away at the age of 86 as a result of a car accident.

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24.01.2022

The entire filmography of French filmmaker Jean Eustache is undergoing meticulous restoration to be rereleased in the coming months.

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16.01.2022

The corona pandemic has forced cultural organizations to rethink the relationship to their audience. Denderland TV is one of the many initiatives that arose from the search for alternative ways of communication.

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10.01.2022

Earlier this month, American critic, filmmaker and actor Peter Bogdanovich passed away at the age of 82.

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25.12.2021

Sabzian is taking a break. We’ll be back on 10 January. Best wishes and Happy New Year!

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20.12.2021

This month, the French filmmagazine Trafic celebrates its 120th issue and thirty years of existence. Sadly, it also signals the end of a long cycle, this winter’s edition will be the last.

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19.11.2021

Belgian producer, director, presenter and TV pioneer Annie Declerck has passed away.

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19.11.2021

Gus Van Sant, American filmmaker known for My Own Private Idaho (1991), Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003) and Paranoid Park (2007), is presenting a theatre production in DE SINGEL in Antwerp.

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1.11.2021

From 11 to 14 November, Visite Film Festival welcomes you back for its 9th edition.

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11.10.2021

From 20 to 24 October, Ghent is once again center stage for the 20th edition of the Courtisane festival.

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7.10.2021

In October, both the Centre Pompidou in Paris and De Cinema in Antwerp are screening the work of American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt.

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6.10.2021

10 years ago, the first bricks were laid for the house that would become known as On Cinema. Happy birthday!

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25.09.2021

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!

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25.09.2021

Your support can help us maintain our quality standards and provide the means to pay for the work of our volunteers. Support Sabzian!

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6.09.2021

At the Âge d’or Weekend in CINEMATEK (September 18-20), three young researchers and artists present a series of film programs and a lecture.

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6.09.2021

On September 16, Art Cinema OFFoff presents the Night of the Experimental Film at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels.

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30.08.2021

Van 2 tot 5 september stelt Electric Shadows een eerste filmfestival met een selectie van Aziatische cinema voor in De Cinema in Antwerpen.

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30.08.2021

In het weekend van 3 en 4 september 2021 vindt in Oostende voor de derde keer het stille filmfestival SHHH plaats.

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1.08.2021

Sabzian is taking a summer break. We’ll be back in September!

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31.07.2021

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.

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27.07.2021

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

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14.07.2021

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.

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23.06.2021

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.

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15.06.2021

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.

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26.04.2021

Your support can help us maintain our quality standards and provide the means to pay for the work of our volunteers. Support Sabzian!

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3.04.2021

On March 25th, Bertrand Tavernier, one of the most versatile and foremost figures of French cinema, passed away at the age of 79.

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30.03.2021

Subversive Film, a curatorial collective that focuses on militant film practices, launches Resounding Archives, a podcast series featuring conversations with filmmakers, archivists, freedom fighters and activists about their work and participation in the liberation struggle for Palestine during the 1968-82 period. 

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26.02.2021

On the occasion of the Out of the Shadows programme (originally conceived for the Courtisane festival 2020), Courtisane, Sabzian and KASK School of Arts compiled, edited and published the publication Out of the Shadows, focussing on the work of five Arab female film directors: Atteyat Al-Abnoudy, Selma Baccar, Assia Djebar, Jocelyne Saab and Heiny Srour. A copy of Out of the Shadows can now be ordered!

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8.02.2021

Belgian film and tv director Patrick Le Bon passed away on February 3 at the age of 81.

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1.02.2021

Cecilia Mangini, Italy's first female documentary filmmaker, passed away on 21 January at the age of 93.

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1.02.2021

Nathalie Delon, one of French cinema's brightest stars, passed away on January 21st at the age of 79.

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4.01.2021

On the last day of 2020, the French film historian and critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon has passed away at the age of 85.

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27.12.2020

On 28 December 1895, 125 years ago today, the cinema came into existence with the first real public screening hosted by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière in the basement of the Grand Café in Paris.

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27.12.2020

Op 28 december 1895, vandaag 125 jaar geleden, vond de allereerste publieke filmvertoning plaats in de kelder van het Grand Café in Parijs, georganiseerd door de broers Auguste en Louis Lumière.

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20.12.2020

Just at the very last moment: the fall edition of Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.

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12.12.2020

Actor and director François Leterrier, known for his leading role in Robert Bresson's Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956), has passed away on December 4 at the age of 91.

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23.11.2020

The future of the Cinemateca Brasileira and the livelihoods of its workers are under threat.

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16.11.2020

On November 12, Argentine-French filmmaker and writer Nelly Kaplan passed away at the age of 89, just months after her lifelong collaborator and producer, Claude Makovski, had died.

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16.11.2020

From November 18 to December 18, LUCA School of Arts presents the work from its graduating filmstudents online.

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16.11.2020

Soumitra Chatterjee, the legendary Indian actor with more than 200 films to his name and famed for his work with Satyajit Ray, has died of complications from the coronavirus.

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16.11.2020

The Italian-American filmmaker, painter, poet, sculptor and media artist Aldo Tambellini, who had a major influence on the art scene of the sixties and seventies, a pioneer of video art and multimedia installations, has died at the age of 90.

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14.11.2020

The fight to save the emblematic Cinéma La Clef in Paris from real-estate speculation continues. You can help in the endeavour to buy La Clef and create a creative commons.

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9.11.2020

On November 6, the Argentine filmmaker and politician Fernando “Pino” Solanas (84) has passed away.

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9.11.2020

The tenth episode of The Bandwagon, Sabzian’s irregular series of film-related mixes, by Les Ateliers Claus’ artistic director Tommy Denys.

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6.11.2020

Now that cinemas have closed down again, our experience of cinema has become a solitary delight. But in this time of confinement, we can find our cinephile community in the non-endemic space of the online environment. In the next weeks, Sabzian will select three films a week, available on online platforms, in an effort to propose imagined film-gatherings that can be attended by everyone.

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12.10.2020

WANDA is a new independent Belgian lobby group consisting of female directors. It unites women in the fight against institutional inequality within the Flemish and Brussels audiovisual sector.

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4.10.2020

On 21 September 2020, the French-British actor Michael Lonsdale passed away at the age of 89.

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8.09.2020

From 23 to 26 September, CINEMATEK, the Royal Belgian Film Archive, pays homage to Belgian director Robbe De Hert, who passed away at the age of 77 on Monday 24 August.

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31.08.2020

Filmmaker Robbe De Hert is maandag 24 augustus op 77-jarige leeftijd overleden.