Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is the guest of honour for the Centre Pompidou's 2024-2025 season. Starting on October 2, the Centre will host a comprehensive retrospective and exhibition on the work of the Thai filmmaker.

On the occasion of the appearance of Rebekah Rutkoff’s new book, Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers (2024), Anthology Film Archives presents the first comprehensive U.S. retrospective of Beavers’s work from September 26 to 29.

From 26 to 29 September, the second edition of STOM!, a film festival dedicated to silent film, will take place in Bruges.

The sixth edition of SHHH, the festival that celebrates the power and poetry of silent film, hosted by Monokino, will take place in Ostend from 13 to 14 September. This 6th edition is dedicated to The Social Life of Film, an international gathering of nomadic film platforms from various corners of the world.

The Cinémathèque du documentaire at the Bibliothèque publique d’information of Centre Pompidou will showcase the complete filmography of Frederick Wiseman, screening all 46 of his films between September 2024 and March 2025 at the Centre Pompidou.

Bozar has invited Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul to Brussels for a Close-up program, where he will present his first-ever performative VR project, showcase a selection of his films and film choices, and engage in a conversation about his work.

French independent cinephile label Capricci is re-releasing sixteen films by Chantal Akerman in French cinemas, alongside the release of a Blu-ray box featuring Akerman's feature-length and short films – the most complete collection available worldwide to date.

From 4 to 8 September, Frankfurt based festival exf f. - tage des experimentellen films frankfurt is hosting a four-program retrospective of American experimental filmmaker Gregory J. Markopoulos, one of the most idiosyncratic and influential figures of avant-garde and experimental film in the post-war period.

Sabzian is going into summer mode. During July and August, Sabzian will publish at a reduced pace. We'll be back to full speed in September!

To mark the beginning of our summer break, we offer you an overview of the texts we have published over the past year, which we hope will end up on your summer reading list!