Week 11/2026

This week, there is plenty to (re)discover at the cinema.

“It’s been 36 years since I was imprisoned without having committed any crime. During those years, many people came to see us. Some came to take photographs; others, with literary ambitions, to observe a different kind of people. Many have made films.” Raimondakis speaks on behalf of the lepers isolated on the Greek island of Spinalonga in L’Ordre by Jean-Daniel Pollet. This film was commissioned by the pharmaceutical company Sandoz, which also financed the French experimental filmmaker Eric Duvivier to produce works on medical and psychiatric subjects. KASKcinema presents a program of experimental films that reflect on, represent, and perhaps even evoke the experience of various mental states.

Have you always wanted to watch the canonical Histoire(s) du cinéma by Jean-Luc Godard, but hesitated at the prospect of its full 276-minute duration? Bozar offers an ideal entry point to this monumental work. The Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, currently exhibiting at Bozar, presents Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma: an 84-minute selection by Godard, who approaches film history not as a fixed chronological monument, but as a timeless philosophical dream about the collective exchange of glances.

Finally, there is a rare opportunity to see Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy on the big screen. After completing her debut River of Grass in 1994, Reichardt struggled for years to finance another feature, while teaching part-time at a film school. Old Joy is shown on the occasion of the release of her newest film, The Mastermind, about which I wrote the article “Bearing the Consequences” here on Sabzian.