For 16 years, the Offscreen Film Festival has been your guide through the weird and wonderful landscape of cutting-edge cinema, cult movies and B to Z genres: three weeks of juicy pulp and non-conformist innovation, jammed into over 60 screenings that swim against the mainstream! The 16th Offscreen Film Festival opens on 8 March with The Mountain, the first of fourteen Offscreenings. The films are arranged in thematic modules. Beyond the official selection of premieres, there is an emphasis on retrospective and homage: a tribute to Eurocult queen and X-rated icon Brigitte Lahaie, who will be present at the screenings, an extensive retrospective of robots (and androids and cyborgs) in science fiction film, a homage to legendary Italian exploitation and genre director Joe D’Amato, a matinee and Belgian cult cinema, culminating in a unique projection in the Brussels Planetarium of three of E. Elias Merhige's most audacious and groundbreaking films, screened as one cosmic trip in the presence of the visionary filmmaker himself. The full programme is now online at www.offscreen.be
16th Offscreen Film Festival
Location: rue d'Arenberg, 3, 1000 Brussels
