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)
Wild Horse Nine
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
Cinema Galeries
Brussels
Cinema
Wild Horse Nine
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
The Invite
Best Screenplay - Astra Midseason Movie Awards 2026
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
The Rift Between Us
With the director in attendance
Q&A following the screening
The Rift Between Us is a talking heads documentary featuring Nozizwe Dube, Marie-Fidèle Dusingize and Betel Mabille, exploring the impact of misogynoir on romantic relationships between Black women and Black men in Belgium. At the intersection of sexism and anti-Black racism, the film asks how colonial legacies continue to shape the ways we see ourselves, each other, and the relationships we build.
Cinema Galeries
Brussels
Cinema
The Rift Between Us
FILM SCREENING ‘COWARD’ - Where cinema meets history
An Immersive Experience at the Crossroads of Cinema, History and Remembrance
Through COWARD, cinema explores the realities of the First World War, bringing to life the stories of an era shaped by conflict. Drawing on the collections, archives and historical expertise of the War Heritage Institute (WHI), the film’s artistic vision is informed by a close dialogue with history, grounding its fictional narrative in the historical reality of the time.
To extend this encounter between cinema and remembrance, the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History, located in the heart of Brussels’ Cinquantenaire Park, invites visitors to experience the history of the Great War from a fresh perspective.
In this remarkable historical setting, the film screening will be followed by a guided tour of the museum’s First World War collections. A temporary exhibition will further enrich the experience, offering a closer look at the world of COWARD and highlighting the War Heritage Institute’s historical archives that helped bring the film to life.
Bringing cinema and heritage together, this unique experience offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between artistic creation, historical research and collective memory. It is an invitation to discover the history of the Great War through the lens of cinema and the wealth of historical records preserved by the War Heritage Institute.
5:00 pm – Doors open
6:00–8:00 pm – Film screening
8:00–9:30 pm – Guided tour (FR, NL or EN)
First World War collections
Official COWARD temporary exhibition
The film will be screened in its original language, with French and Dutch subtitles.
Your ticket includes one drink and a snack of your choice.
War Heritage Institute (Royal Military Museum)
Brussels
Cinema
FILM SCREENING ‘COWARD’ - Where cinema meets history
Taiwan New Cinema – 悲情城市 A City of Sadness, 侯孝賢 Hou Hsiao-hsien
Developed as part of Michael Lin’s exhibition, Tea Towels and Serviettes, at La Loge, this film programme expands on an important reference in the artist’s practice: Taiwan New Cinema. The movement emerged in the 1980s during a period of significant social and political transformation in Taiwan, as martial law ended and rapid economic growth reshaped the country.
悲情城市 A City of Sadness, 侯孝賢 Hou Hsiao-hsien (1989). Fiction, 158 min.
Preceded by a conversation between Michael Lin and P.M.S. Collective (TBC), and followed by a short Q&A.
This film marks the first installment of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Taiwan trilogy. It depicts the tragic fate of the Lin family, whose lives are disrupted by tensions between local Taiwanese people and Chinese immigrants during the transition from Japanese colonial rule to the KMT(Chinese Nationalist Party) government. The film offers a groundbreaking portrayal of the previously taboo 228 Incident, while also highlighting the political trauma experienced by ordinary citizens.
Hou Hsiao-hsien is a leading figure in world cinema and in the Taiwan New Cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness, and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin.
Pratical information:
Language: Original version with English subtitles
Free participation, upon reservation info@la-loge.be
Full programme on the website la-loge.be
Michael Lin ; P.M.S. collective
Cinema Galeries
Brussels
Cinema
Taiwan New Cinema – 悲情城市 A City of Sadness, 侯孝賢 Hou Hsiao-hsien
Cine Design | Identity: A Czech Graphic Design Love Story
How is a country’s visual identity shaped, and what can graphic design reveal about it? The documentary “Identity: A Czech Graphic Design Love Story” (2024) explores the history, culture and contemporary life of the Czech Republic through the lens of graphic design.
The documentary follows Nicholas Lowry, a world-renowned auctioneer and Czech-American collector, as he travels from New York to Prague to discover what has shaped and continues to define Czech national identity. His journey takes him to key locations in the history of Czech graphic design, including Zlín, Litomyšl, Brno, Plzeň and South Moravia. Along the way, he discovers the work and legacy of figures such as Tomáš Baťa, Josef Váchal, Alfons Mucha and Ladislav Sutnar, as well as the work of a younger generation of Czech graphic artists and designers, including Petr Babák, Martin Pecina and Aleš Najbrt.
The film shows how graphic design is woven into everyday life – from industrial heritage and beer labels to Moravian wine labels and a unique tourist wayfinding system. Nicholas’s journey is also a personal quest to discover his own Czech roots.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwd2GQU9BI
The screening is presented as part of the exhibition Identita – The Story of Czech Graphic Design.
Design Museum Brussels
Laeken
Cinema
Cine Design | Identity: A Czech Graphic Design Love Story
En attendant Zorro
Centre Culturel Jacques Franck
Saint-Gilles
Cinema
En attendant Zorro
20/20 Vision: Speculative Archives
Our monthly micro-cinema is back with 3 works from our collection, each produced around the year 2000. During this complex, vibrant moment at the turn of the century, the artists explore formats of speculative storytelling. By doing so, they question who holds the monopoly on our collective imagination. What becomes of 'truth' when images, archives, and memory are all susceptible to manipulation?
Programme:
18:00: soup & drinks
18:30: intro & films
Vidéoconférence, Document F098 (1999)
Belgium
7’50”
Julia Meltzer & David Throne, It’s not my memory of it: three recollected documents (2003)
USA
25’
The Otolith Group, Otolith I (2003)
UK
22’22”
English spoken, without subtitles
Vidéoconférence, Document F098 (1999)
Julia Meltzer & David Throne, It’s not my memory of it: three recollected documents (2003)
The Otolith Group, Otolith I (2003)
argos centre for audiovisual arts
Brussels
Cinema
20/20 Vision: Speculative Archives
Taiwan New Cinema – Pangcah Mother: The Woman Who Builds Houses
Developed as part of Michael Lin’s exhibition, Tea Towels and Serviettes, at La Loge, this film programme expands on an important reference in the artist’s practice: Taiwan New Cinema. The movement emerged in the 1980s during a period of significant social and political transformation in Taiwan, as martial law ended and rapid economic growth reshaped the country.
Construction sites are often viewed as male-dominated, but these Pangcah women easily match their male peers in skill by handling everything from pulling nails to assembling complex formwork. This film focuses on Miciang, a Pangcah woman from Hualien’s Ceroh community. Doing heavy labor by day and caring for her family by night, she is a mother of resilience and strength.
· Pangcah媽媽—築屋的女人 Pangcah Mother: The Woman Who Builds Houses, 馬躍比吼 Mayaw Biho (1999). Documentary, 24 min.
Mayaw Biho, a Pangcah director from Hualien’s Ceroh Tribe, is a pioneer of Taiwan’s first wave of Indigenous documentary cinema. Since 1997, his works have been screened internationally at major festivals such as TIDF and the Margaret Mead Film Festival, sparking critical dialogue on Indigenous culture, history, and social justice. Beyond filmmaking, he has long been deeply engaged in Indigenous rights and public affairs.
· 母語 The Mother’s Voice, Kagaw Omin (2025).
Documentary, 16 min.
Through an intimate gaze, director Kagaw listens to her mother share stories of her childhood and family of origin. Born in Chiang Mai and married to an Indigenous Atayal man in Taiwan, her mother moves fluidly between Thai, Mandarin, and Yunnanese. For Kagaw, this voice, first sensed from within the womb, is her mother tongue. Between conversations, the camera wanders through the house, tracing light, air, and the quiet remnants of her mother’s presence.
Kagaw Omin (Nitaya Lan) comes from a family of Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal and Thai Chinese descent. Growing up immersed in a diverse family culture, she draws creative inspiration from her heritage. Her works center on familial connection and ethnic and cultural identity. She is currently an independent filmmaker.
Pratical information:
Language: Original version with English subtitles
Free participation, upon reservation info@la-loge.be
Full programme on the website la-loge.be
La Loge
Ixelles
Cinema
Taiwan New Cinema – Pangcah Mother: The Woman Who Builds Houses
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
Cine Design | Unlabeled. Five Belgian Graphic Design Archives & Designing from home
On December 1, the Design Museum Brussels is hosting a double feature dedicated to graphic design, featuring the documentaries UNLABELED. Five Belgian Graphic Design Archives and Designing From Home.
By exploring the archives of graphic designers, these two documentaries take us behind the scenes of the creative process and reveal the stories, approaches, and inspirations behind their work. They also examine the role of archives in preserving and passing on this creative heritage: what should be preserved, how should it be preserved, and how can we keep the memory of graphic design alive?
The screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with the directors of Designing From Home: Dr Sue Breakell and Dr Harriet Atkinson from the University of Brighton’s Design Archives, and Tine Poot from the Flemish Architecture Institute.
UNLABELED. Five Belgian Graphic Design Archives (2026, VAi)
What happens to the creative memory of a graphic designer? Five Belgian graphic designers exceptionally open the doors to their archives, where the past and present coexist. We visit Miche Wynants, Michel Olyff, Luk Mestdagh, Base Design and Atelier Brenda. The documentary takes us on a visual journey through workspaces and storage areas.
As a viewer, you delve into boxes, filing cabinets and digital folders containing decades of iconic designs. Unlabeled bears witness to a human, and sometimes urgent, quest to preserve the value of creative heritage in an era of digital transience. Is what is not preserved lost forever?
Language: FR/NL/EN (subtitles NL/EN)
Duration: 30 minutes
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpYbxN7yvw&t=85s
Designing From Home (2025, Harriet Atkinson et Sue Breakell)
Designing From Home explores the meanings of home for celebrated twentieth-century designer FHK Henrion, a German-Jewish émigré who designed for many famous brands. After living and working in Paris, Henrion fled to Britain to escape the Nazi threat in 1936, establishing home in Hampstead, North London, in a house that he and his family, including his sculptor wife Daphne Hardy and their children, lived in from the 1940s onwards, while she worked on major sculpture commissions and he built his graphic design practice from solo consultant designer to group design practice, working for companies such as KLM and Tate & Lyle.
Language: EN
Duration: 16 minutes
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1133125381?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Design Museum Brussels
Laeken
Cinema
Cine Design | Unlabeled. Five Belgian Graphic Design Archives & Designing from home
Taiwan New Cinema – 靈山 The Mountain, 蘇弘恩 Ungen Mehan
Developed as part of Michael Lin’s exhibition, Tea Towels and Serviettes, at La Loge, this film programme expands on an important reference in the artist’s practice: Taiwan New Cinema. The movement emerged in the 1980s during a period of significant social and political transformation in Taiwan, as martial law ended and rapid economic growth reshaped the country.
靈山 The Mountain, 蘇弘恩 Ungen Mehan (2015). Documentary, 73 min.
For hundreds of years, Taiwan has been under colonial rules. From the Dutch, the Spanish, the Japanese, to the Republic of China, each regime left their footprints on this island; only the indigenous peoples of this island experience them all. During these periods of colonization, they were given different names and their cultures have been changed. Through the life of a Truku elder, we see the history of indigenous recertification movement.
Born to parents of Indigenous and Han Taiwanese backgrounds, filmmaker Ungen Mehan (SU Hung-En) grew up navigating between two identities. This experience has allowed him to see the world from different perspectives.
Pratical information:
Language: Original version with English subtitles
Free participation, upon reservation info@la-loge.be
Full programme on the website la-loge.be
La Loge
Ixelles
Cinema
Taiwan New Cinema – 靈山 The Mountain, 蘇弘恩 Ungen Mehan
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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