Agenda

October 2022

screening

Toute une nuit

Chantal Akerman, 1982

Tue 4 Oct 2022, 19:00

Palace, Brussels

PART OF Chantal Akerman, une cinéaste à Bruxelles

Premiere

screening

Ice

Robert Kramer, 1969

Fri 7 Oct 2022, 19:00

Cinema Nova, Brussels

PART OF

Screening

Hommage Jean-Luc Godard: Sauve qui peut (la vie)

Sun 9 Oct 2022, 20:30

Sphinx Cinema, Ghent

PART OF

screening

Le révélateur

Philippe Garrel, 1968

Wed 12 Oct 2022, 20:30

Vooruit, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

screening

Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon

When the Waves Are Gone

Lav Diaz, 2022

Thu 13 Oct 2022, 16:00

Kinepolis, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

screening

À Vendredi, Robinson

Mitra Farahani, 2022

Thu 13 Oct 2022, 20:00

KASKcinema, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

Event

Talkie Sabzian: Filmonderwijs in Vlaanderen

Fri 14 Oct 2022, 12:30

Kinepolis, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

Talk

screening

Walk Up

Hong Sang-soo, 2022

Fri 14 Oct 2022, 16:30

Studio Skoop, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

screening

Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda

Woman Is the Future of Man

Hong Sang-soo, 2004

Sat 15 Oct 2022, 20:00

Studio Skoop, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

screening

Trenque Lauquen

Laura Citarella, 2022

Sun 16 Oct 2022, 14:00

Kinepolis, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

screening

Echo

Ruben Desiere, 2022

Mon 17 Oct 2022, 19:45

Kinepolis, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

screening

Tourment sur les îles

Albert Serra, 2022

Tue 18 Oct 2022, 19:00

KASKcinema, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

screening

Soseolgaui Yeonghwa

The Novelist’s Film

Hong Sang-soo, 2022

Wed 19 Oct 2022, 17:30

Studio Skoop, Ghent

PART OF Film Fest Gent 2022

Selections

Film Fest Gent 2022

This Week’s Agenda

This week’s selection focuses on filmmakers who used cinema as a form of social and political criticism.

Touki Bouki by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty explores postcolonial Senegal through the eyes of two young lovers. Its unconventional editing style sets it apart from traditional west-african cinema. Inspired by the French nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism, Mambéty uses nonlinear narrative structures, jump cuts and experimental soundscapes to dislodge the fixed rationality of western colonialism. The film would become highly influential for filmmakers such as John Akomfrah, who describes Touki Bouki as “an absolute gem ... the one indisputable masterpiece of the African avant-garde.”

Punishment Park also experiments with genre conventions to develop a political analysis. Through a combination of documentary and fiction, Peter Watkins comments on the internal mechanisms of political power in the US. The interplay between both genres lays bare the relationship between repression and dissent and conjures up a vision that neither documentary nor fiction are able to evoke by themselves. American society currently seems to be catching up with Watkins dystopic vision. 50 years after its release, the film could turn out to be prophetic.

To Sleep With Anger is often called Charles Burnett’s ‘other masterpiece’. Burnett, who was highly involved in the LA Rebellion movement, made his first masterpiece Killer of Sheep while he was still studying at the UCLA. If To Sleep With Anger touches on the same themes as Killer of Sheep, it does so in a much more nuanced manner. Its depiction of black psychological interiority and African American double consciousness is provocative and subtle at the same time.