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Jean-Baptiste Thoret Releases Film on Godard on YouTube
In January 2017, Jean-Baptiste Thoret and Nicole Brenez travelled to Rolle to meet Jean-Luc Godard, then 86 years old, at his home. This long, open conversation later became the basis for a film that, for years, could not be released due to rights issues. On 3 January, Thoret released the film for free on YouTube, for an unspecified period of time.
CINEMATEK presents a major retrospective dedicated to Fritz Lang, running through 28 February. From the silent era to sound, from Weimar Germany to Hollywood, Lang’s work charts the evolution of cinema itself.
From 12 to 14 December, film screening series Tusind Sole and the Danish Film Institute will host Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa.
Bozar in Brussels presents a new “Close‑up” programme on Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra from 6 December 2025 to 4 January 2026, featuring four of his films alongside three additional titles chosen by Serra himself, in dialogue with the spirit of Francisco Goya.
From 4 to 7 December, the Amsterdam Film Meeting returns to Filmhuis Cavia for its second edition.
The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) organises the 1st Forum for Film Education (FFE) on 27–28 November 2025 at the University of Amsterdam’s Media Studies Department.
At the ICA in London, Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned (25 November 2025 – 21 June 2026) examines projects Godard never realised. The programme brings to view his shelved film ideas, unmade television scripts and fragments that never grew into finished works.
British filmmaker Peter Watkins passed away last week near Felletin, France, where he had lived for more than twenty-five years. He had just turned ninety.
Until the end of November, CINEMATEK dedicates its Artist in Focus programme to Belgian filmmaker Annik Leroy.
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