The Invite
The marriage of Angela (Olivia Wilde) and Joe (Seth Rogen)—marked by numerous neurotic arguments—has been on shaky ground for quite some time now. Their eccentric upstairs neighbors, Hawk (Edward Norton) and Pina (Penélope Cruz), are mostly active at night, which really gets on Joe’s nerves. When Angela invites them over for dinner, Joe rubs his hands together, eager to tell them everything to their faces. The evening will take some unexpected turns that they won’t soon forget…
Cinema Galeries
Brussels
Cinema
The Invite
Cinema Impero | Muna Mussie
Cinema Galeries
Brussels
Cinema
Cinema Impero | Muna Mussie
Red Room
An afternoon with artist Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, organised in collaboration with Bozar and in connection with the presentation of his performances DRESSING and mata! at Bozar on 19 October 2026.
From clothing to movement, from object to gesture: Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust’s world of textiles and scenography creates an inclusive language for the body.
The multidisciplinary artist’s performances take place in galleries, museums and public spaces. They call for imagination and allow for fluid and fascinating creativity in which any audience can fit.
In the context of his performances DRESSING + mata! at Bozar, the artist has been invited by Cloud Seven and Bozar to take part in a conversation with Paul Briottet, artistic associate to Bozar’s CEO. Preceded by a screening of his film Red Room (2024), which directly explores the themes from both performances, this conversation will examine the artist’s multidisciplinary practice and its collective, and at times participatory, nature.
This event is part of the PIT – Perform Inform Transform project, co-funded by the European Union.
Program:
14:00 – Doors open (you are welcome to visit the exhibition)
16:00–17:00 Conversation with Paul Briottet and Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust + Q&A (in French)
17:00–17:37 Screening of Red Room (37′)
Free admission, registration is mandatory for each visitor of the event due to the limited capacity of Studio 7.
Please register here: https://cloudseven.be/event/red-room/
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Paul Briottet.
Cloud Seven - Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection
Brussels
Cinema
Red Room
Action Item
Cinema Nova
Brussels
Cinema
Action Item
20/20 Vision: une place vide dans un paysage
In 1991, shortly after the end of the Gulf War, filmmaker Simone Bitton recorded an encounter between Palestinian historian Elias Sanbar and French film critic Serge Daney. Sanbar is a collector of images – an exile who archives the memory of his people: press photographs, family albums, postcards, and so on. To him, the image serves as proof of his identity. By contrast, although he spent most of his life watching films, Daney always refused to keep still images.
In 2009, the Algerian football team won a match against Egypt, securing their place in the 2010 World Cup. Algerian artist Amina Menia remembers how the celebrations seemed surreal, given that both countries were experiencing political tensions, and how they reminded her of the festivities that followed the independence of Algeria in 1962.
In both films, complex geopolitical conflicts transit through history by way of personal recollections and archival images, which seem to shore each other up against the recurrence of political oppressions, the weight of history, and the erasure of collective narratives. They become and remain relevant, especially against the backdrop of the recent harassment of the Iranian football team by the US government, host of the 2026 World Cup, and the sustained violence against the Palestinian people
Programme:
18u soup & drinks
18u30 intro & films, with video introduction by artist Amina Menia
Amina Menia, National Liberation Football (2022)
Algeria, France
19’50”
French spoken, with English subtitles*
Simone Bitton, Conversation Nord-Sud : Daney/Sanbar (1991)
France
48’
French spoken, with English subtitles
*National Liberation Football is conceived and produced as a three-channel video installation, exceptionally shown at argos as a single screen screening. With generous permission of the artist.
20/20 Vision is our monthly micro-cinema night: a shifting line-up of moving images and video works, from shorts to features, from the archive and beyond. Throughout fall and winter, 20/20 Vision seeks various connections between the argos film collection and the ongoing exhibition What the Land Remembers — Counter-Archives from Iran, each screening approaching the underlying themes from a different angle. With only 20 chairs for 20 spectators, the screenings are cosy and informal, designed to spark conversations or perhaps even disagreements. We open the bar, ladle out hot soup, and invite you to sink into a collective viewing experience. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes provocative, always a little unexpected.
Each screening will be accompanied by a critical companion piece published on the website of our partner Yanco. A print-out will be made available during the screening as well.
Amina Menia,
Simone Bitton
argos centre for audiovisual arts
Brussels
Cinema
20/20 Vision: une place vide dans un paysage
Fantastic Forest 2026
Centre Jules Verne
Forest
Cinema
Fantastic Forest 2026
Filem'On - International Film Festival for Young Audiences
Filem’On, the International Film Festival for Young Audiences in Brussels, is celebrating its 20th edition with a spectacular program. From October 25 to November 7, schools, families, and groups with children aged 2 to 16 are warmly invited to discover the festival.
Filem’On, the International Film Festival for Young Audiences in Brussels, is celebrating its 20th edition with a spectacular program. From October 25 to November 7, schools, families, and groups with children aged 2 to 16 are warmly invited to discover the festival.
Under the theme “Filem’On Flashes", the festival presents over 130 international films—both past and present—spanning all genres and formats.
Come to the festival to meet the directors and actors behind brilliant films, sign up for one of the many workshops, or get swept away by the Ciné-concert at the festive opening. And don’t forget to vote for the Audience Award, presented on closing night (everyone welcome!).
Are you a young film fan? Looking for a fun family outing during the autumn break? Visit Brussels' most beautiful cinemas for a film-tastic adventure!
Filem'on asbl
Brussels
Cinema
Filem'On - International Film Festival for Young Audiences
BULLETPROOF: A LESBIAN’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE PLOT
A sarcastic yet essential documentary on LGBTQ+ representation on television. Through numerous conversations with screenwriters, queer scholars, and TV fans, Regan Latimer humorously depicts the power of the media to shape our perception of ourselves. Filled with numerous references to pop culture, as well as personal accounts and/or expert insights, the film reveals the crucial issues behind the apparent simplicity of TV series: their power to change mindsets.
Cinéma Aventure
Brussels
Cinema
BULLETPROOF: A LESBIAN’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING THE PLOT
ÌFÉ: (THE SEQUEL)
A touch of Nollywood arrives in Brussels with this lesbian drama. Two women reconnect after a painful breakup. As feelings are rekindled, doubts set in and disrupt the established order. This is the first Nigerian film to feature a lesbian relationship. This production draws on a cinematic tradition that breaks with established norms and has enjoyed considerable success in recent years on the African continent and beyond.
Cinéma Aventure
Brussels
Cinema
ÌFÉ: (THE SEQUEL)
En attendant Zorro
Centre Culturel Jacques Franck
Saint-Gilles
Cinema
En attendant Zorro
Protocols for opening the museum
The opening of a new museum is a once-in-a-generation event, marked by ritual, ceremony and protocol. It celebrates what has been achieved while anticipating what lies ahead. Yet museum openings are also exercises in power, serving national pride and cultural, political and urban ambitions. What can be learned by examining them more closely?
This programme brings together documentaries, artist films, archival footage and television reports tracing the creation and opening of large-scale institutions, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1977, S.M.A.K. in Ghent in 1999 and Tate Modern in London in 2000.
Across three thematic loops, the programme follows museums from conception and construction to public inauguration. Shown over the weeks surrounding Kanal's opening, the films consider how art institutions introduce themselves through narratives of change, possibility and promise – and how artists have at times responded to them.
This programme forms part of How to open, the first year of Protocols for opening the museum, a three-year inquiry into what it means for a new museum in Brussels to be truly open, welcoming and public.
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Brussels
Cinema
Protocols for opening the museum
Film as told by Johan Grimonprez
Is "Big Bang" the best term for the origin of the universe? Can a different alphabet capture the awe and bewilderment of inhabiting the world together, across species?
Inaugurating Film as told by, filmmaker Johan Grimonprez presents Every Day Words Disappear, a lecture-cine-performance exploring how new stories about the origins of the world might help imagine different ways of belonging together in a bankrupt world marked by genocide and species extinction. Following his Oscar-nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (2024), which exposes colonial strategies of divide and rule, Grimonprez turns to interspecies coexistence. Rather than imagining a future paralysed by dystopian nihilism, he seeks joyful ways to tell untold stories of togetherness among shipwrecked travellers inhabiting this fragile spaceship called Earth. This event is part of Film as told by, a monthly series exploring the past, present and future of film.
As told by: Johan Grimonprez. With the support of: HOGENT Arts Research Fund, KASK - School of Arts Gent
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Brussels
Cinema
Film as told by Johan Grimonprez
Film as told by Laure Prouvost
For over two decades, artist Laure Prouvost has made video central to her practice, using it as a material through which language, (mis)communication, dreams and realities take form.
Brimming with anecdotes, humour and magical thinking, her works let seemingly disparate ideas, images and words collide, thereby creating new possibilities. From reimagining the museum (If It Was, 2017) and escaping the physical mind and body (Every Sunday, Grand Ma, 2023) to exploring quantum phenomena (We felt a star dying, 2025), Prouvost’s videos conjure alternative visions of the world. Often, these worlds spill from the screen into immersive installations that play with scent, sculpture and light.
Characterised by a DIY, home movie aesthetic, Prouvost’s videos can be seen in galleries, biennials and film festivals alike, using proximity and spontaneity to draw the viewer into their universe. For Film as told by, the Brussels-based artist invites you to dive deep into her archive with works spanning her entire career, plus a surprise or two along the way. Film as told by is a monthly series exploring the past, present and future of film.
As told by: Laure Prouvost
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Brussels
Cinema
Film as told by Laure Prouvost
I swear
W:Halll - Centre culturel de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Cinema
I swear
Film as told by Eric de Kuyper (and friends)
Filmmaker, writer, curator and teacher Eric de Kuyper has led many artistic lives. After working as a producer and presenter for Belgian television, he co-wrote several films with Chantal Akerman, showcased his own films at the Venice, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Festivals, published numerous books and collaborated on projects across the fields of music, theatre and choreography. A pioneer in live …
Reflecting this remarkable career, this special edition of Film as told by invites friends and collaborators to explore different facets of de Kuyper’s practice. Inspired by his years presenting the groundbreaking television programme De Andere Film [The Other Film], each guest offers a personal perspective through film excerpts, readings, anecdotes or reflections, echoing de Kuyper’s role and legacy as a host, mediator and advocate for others’ work. Weaving the various contributions together will be a screening of de Kuyper’s Echte Clichés (‘Real Cliches’, 1991), a rarely seen series of vignettes centred on one of the filmmaker’s recurring interests, his passion for dance.
This event is part of Film as told by, a monthly series exploring the past, present and future of film.
As told by: Eric De Kuyper. Presenters: Full line-up to be confirmed
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Brussels
Cinema
Film as told by Eric de Kuyper (and friends)
Film as told by Radical Democracy
Part performance, part concert, James Hoff and Ben Kudler’s collaborative project Radical Democracy creates a hidden cinema from the omnipresent infrastructure that shapes contemporary networked life.
Drawing on hacked cameras around the world, the duo intercepts live video feeds and uses their metadata to create an improvised audiovisual composition in which image and sound continuously produce one another. The artists describe the work as a "live improvised documentary". Repurposing surveillance technologies for speculative cinematic ends, the performance unfolds in real time, exposing systems that organise movement, communication and perception. After the performance, Hoff and Kudler will discuss their practice and the relationship between networked technologies, sound and moving images in a conversation moderated by Eliel Jones, curator of performance and time-based media at Kanal. This event is part of Film as told by, a monthly series exploring the past, present and future of film.
As told by: Ben Kudler, James Hoff
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Brussels
Cinema
Film as told by Radical Democracy
Film as told by Daniella Shreir
In recent years, open letters, collective statements and public declarations have become a defining feature of international film festivals, particularly in response to the genocide in Gaza. From the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlinale to IDFA and the Academy Awards, these texts have shaped public debate, urging institutions to take positions and exposing the rhetoric and politics of language …
In this new lecture-performance, Daniella Shreir examines the open letter as both a political and cultural form. Drawing on visual analysis, close reading and material from a forthcoming survey by the film journal Another Gaze on the state of film institutions, she traces how these statements circulate, what they demand of their recipients, and whether they can produce meaningful change. This event is part of Film as told by, a monthly series exploring the past, present and future of film.
As told by: Daniella Shreir
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Brussels
Cinema
Film as told by Daniella Shreir
Film as told by Mark Cousins
How does cinema shape our understanding of the world? Filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins has been asking himself this question throughout his entire career, not least in The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), a 15-hour journey of discovery through the history and evolution of film. A prolific filmmaker himself, Cousins also experiments with the artistic and political possibilities of the medium, ex…
The first season of Film as told by concludes with a special screening of Cousins’ Storm in My Heart (2018), a rarely seen feature-length experimental film that intertwines the lives of two Hollywood stars, Susan Hayward and Lena Horne. Both Hayward and Horne – who was also a celebrated singer – were born on 30 June 1917 in Brooklyn. Their parallel lives reveal coincidental similarities, but Cousins's film also highlights profound differences that raise questions about feminism, racism and the politics of Hollywood. The screening will be followed by an intervention by Cousins and an invited guest.
As told by: Mark Cousins
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Brussels
Cinema
Film as told by Mark Cousins
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