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Today in our Theatres

LEDOUX LEDOUX

Friday  14.11

19:00

BAFF 2025

Strip  ⁄ 4' ⁄ ST - OND: EN

Lalou Denais, Belgium 2025

Sauf le passé  ⁄ 69' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

Sanaz Azari, Belgium 2025

In the presence of the directors.

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A young illustrator behind the comic museum counter struggles to keep hope alive. Nérina, a young author and illustrator, juggles her cashier job with her artistic creation. Working at the Comic Strip Museum in Brussels, and driven by the hope of being published one day, she faces invisibility. Surrounded by the great names of the ninth art, her dream slowly crumbles and…

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20:30

BAFF 2025

Forsissies  ⁄ 16' ⁄ ST - OND: FR - NL

Cora Lledo, Belgium 2025

The Original Karina Beumer  ⁄ 61' ⁄ V: NL ⁄ ST - OND:  —

Karina Beumer, Netherlands 2025

In the presence of the directors.

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Punk, electro, feminism: four friends set the stage ablaze and reinvent the collective. Forsissies follows a feminist punk-electro band born in Brussels. Four friends, concerts that ignite, jams that explode: a film about the raw energy of creation and the power of the collective. Artist Karina Beumer looks for people interested in taking her place. What if one could post an ad to be replaced…

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PLATEAU PLATEAU

Friday  14.11

18:30

BAFF 2025

The Tirana Conspiracy ⁄ Il complotto di Tirana  ⁄ 71' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

Manfredi Lucibello, Italy 2024

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Something is rotten in the kingdom of art: revisiting one of the greatest contemporary art frauds. In December 2000, a celebrated photographer, invited by an influential critic, selects four “artists” for a supposedly groundbreaking Biennale. Their work is indefensible—artistically, aesthetically, and ethically—yet the art world embraces it. Tirana Conspiracy reconstructs the scandal through…

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20:00

BAFF 2025

Lolo & Sosaku: The Western Archive  ⁄ 67' ⁄ NO DIALOGUE

Sergio Caballero, Spain 2024

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Spaghetti western revival, spiked with punk and industrial noise. With their wild, home-built instruments, sound-art duo Lolo & Sosaku unleash squeaks, rumbles and crashes in a perfectly orchestrated chaos. Is it a concert, an acid-soaked happening, a daydream in the style of Quintin Dupieux? Sergio Caballero throws the two sound artists into an extravagant western where the desert becomes a…

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CINEMATEK

Much more than movie theatres

Exhibitions

Wunderkammer

In the Wunderkammer, the history of film is brought to life through various interactive showcases, starting from the Chinese shadow play to the cinematograph of the Lumière brothers.

Our Collections

Chantal Akerman Collection

CINEMATEK not only conserves all the films of this masterful director, but also manages her entire archive.

Library

Library

The library has a rich collection of books, specialized magazines, press clippings, photos and posters about film and cinema. Consult the online catalogue.

Shop

Webshop

Discover the Collection of DVDs and books published by the Royal Belgian Film Archive, CINEMATEK, available for sale online

Dossiers

Additional context for film programs, filmmakers, and our own activities.

DOSSIERS

Filmmakers

Nurşen Bakır & Frans van de Staak

Conversations about art, poetry, cinema, and philosophy.

30.10 2025

I was editing my short film Thrift which I shot in New York, in the editing room of an artist collective in Amsterdam. In those days,…

#filmmakers #history of cinema #retrospective

DOSSIERS

CINEMA’KET

Summer colour:

Bare feet and lost shoes

01.08 2025

From glass slippers and dancing feet to worn-out trainers and bare toes, this summer shoes and feet are in the spotlight at CINEMA’KET. And of…

#history of cinema #cinema’ket #filmmakers

DOSSIERS

PRESS

100th anniversary UCPB-UBFP: Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

(Chantal Akerman, 1978)

20.03 2025

On the occasion of the UPCB’s centenary in 2025, CINEMATEK joins the celebration by inviting members of the Union to present, throughout the year, on…

#upcb-ubfp #chantal akerman #history of cinema #belgian cinema

DOSSIERS

PRESS

100th anniversary UCPB-UBFP: Daens & Le Diable au Corps

Discover the first two films in this anniversary program!

09.01 2025

The UBFP-UPCB is a national association representing FIPRESCI in Belgium, bringing together professional critics and journalists who promote cinema…

#upcb-ubfp #history of cinema #belgian cinema #pers

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