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2.06.2023

On the occasion of the publication of The Afterimage Reader (The Visible Press, 2022) and in collaboration with CINEMATEK, Courtisane presents 12 screenings of films, mostly from CINEMATEK’s collection, that revive the British magazine Afterimage (1970-1987). Each screening is linked to an issue of the magazine.

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22.05.2023

From 2 to 3 June, the first installment of Echoes of Dissent will take place at beursschouwburg in Brussels. The program, titled Sound of Politics, Politics of Sound: conversations and sonic entanglements, is the first part of a series of gatherings gravitating around the question: How to think of the sonic as a site of dissent? 

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22.05.2023

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

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8.05.2023

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

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8.05.2023

From July 9 to 15, Cinea invites you back to Antwerp for their yearly Zomerfilmcollege.

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8.05.2023

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.

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1.05.2023

Four times a year, the Deutsche Kinemathek presents a program of their films, which you can watch for free for three months. Until 14 July they present Female Perspectives, a program with nine feature and documentary films portraying women in front of and behind the camera.

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24.04.2023

On Friday 28 April MOUV’, the travelling cinema of Forest in Brussels, brings together film professionals for two roundtable discussions to exchange views on new forms of cinema and the role of (neighbourhood) cinema. 

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17.04.2023

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.

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10.04.2023

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.

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10.04.2023

Recently Belgian streamingplatform Avila released a new collection dedicated to the short experimental work of Belgian film pioneer Charles Dekeukeleire.

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10.04.2023

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

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21.03.2023

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

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20.03.2023

On the occasion of the 2023 edition of Courtisane, we browsed through our archive and compiled this reading list for the upcoming festival.

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13.03.2023

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.

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6.03.2023

Café Lumière: An Homage to Cinema is een nieuwe cinefiele website gelanceerd door filmonderzoekers Ive Verdoodt en Tim Deschaumes. De website wil vluchtige kijkervaringen een meer bestendig karakter geven en bij uitstek filmische momenten vieren.

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28.02.2023

Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye passed away on 22 February at the age of 79. Faye was a groundbreaking figure in African cinema and the first Black woman from sub-Saharan Africa to direct a commercially distributed film.

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20.02.2023

In March, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen will premiere Philippe Grandrieux’s new staging of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. On this occasion, three of his films will be screened in Flemish cinemas.

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13.02.2023

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.

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6.02.2023

As a tribute to film composer Angelo Badalamenti, KASKcinema is screening the first four episodes of Twin Peaks (1990-1991) this Sunday afternoon.

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23.01.2023

The documentary film festival Festival En Ville ! is back for its 4th edition in Brussels cinemas from January 30 to February 5.

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16.01.2023

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.

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9.01.2023

Canadian painter, jazz pianist, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker Michael Snow passed away on 5 January. 

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26.12.2022

Sabzian is taking a break. We’ll be back on 9 January. Best wishes and Happy New Year!

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12.12.2022

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.

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14.11.2022

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.

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7.11.2022

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. 

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24.10.2022

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.

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14.10.2022

From 21 to 23 October, SoundImageCulture invites you to Boundary Encounters: Fictional strategies in reality-based film – a weekend-long program of screenings, presentations, shared meals and conversations, to collectively reflect on the incorporation of fiction within reality-based film.

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28.09.2022

Du 4 octobre à la fin juillet 2024, Bruxelles fêtera Chantal Akerman, son œuvre et sa personne, sous la forme d’un parcours cinématographique, artistique, littéraire et architectural.

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28.09.2022

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.

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28.09.2022

Van 4 oktober tot eind juli 2024 viert Brussel Chantal Akerman, haar werk en haar persoon, in de vorm van een cinematografisch, artistiek, literair en architecturaal parcours doorheen Brussel.

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26.09.2022

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. 

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17.09.2022

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

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7.09.2022

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).

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1.09.2022

From 9 to 11 September the fourth edition of SHHH, a filmfestival celebrating the power and poetry of silent film hosted by Monokino, takes place in Ostend.

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1.09.2022

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

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1.08.2022

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

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26.07.2022

Iranian filmmakers Mohamad Rasoulof, Mostafa Al-Ahmad and Jafar Pahani, have been detained and are currently being persecuted as a result of their work in Iran.

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26.07.2022

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.

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18.07.2022

After two years of absence, Cinema Palace's summer film programme Sun Screens is finally back!

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30.06.2022

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.

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21.06.2022

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.

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16.06.2022

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

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14.06.2022

After three years of temporary occupation, the Brussels-based community cinema Kinograph will close its doors at the end of June. To say farewell, they invite you to a weekend of screenings, encounters, talks and parties.

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1.06.2022

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.

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1.06.2022

In haar nieuwe rubriek Passage vraagt Sabzian filmcritici, auteurs, filmmakers en toeschouwers naar een tekst of een fragment dat ooit een blijvende indruk op hen achterliet.

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1.06.2022

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.

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20.05.2022

CINEA’s annual Zomerfilmcollege (Summer Film School) will take place from 10 to 16 July at De Cinema in Antwerp. In more than fifteen talks (all in English) and twenty screenings of mostly rare archival 35mm prints, this year's edition will focus on 1970s German Romantic cinema and the 1930s oeuvre of John Ford. 

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20.05.2022

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).

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5.05.2022

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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5.05.2022

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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23.04.2022

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.

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14.04.2022

Kino Slang, the film blog of Andy Rector, is currently showing Jean-Marie Straub’s CORNEILLE–BRECHT as part of its online quarantine series. 

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11.04.2022

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.

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28.03.2022

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.

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21.03.2022

On the occasion of the 2022 edition of Courtisane, we browsed through our archive and compiled this reading list for the upcoming festival.

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9.03.2022

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.