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Today in our Theatres

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Saturday  15.11

14:00

BAFF 2025

We Had Fun Yesterday  ⁄ color ⁄ 34' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

Marion Guillard, Belgium, USA 2024

Beau comme un tracteur  ⁄ 49' ⁄ V: FR ⁄ ST - OND:  —

Clara Beaudoux, France 2025

In the presence of the directors.

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An intimate exploration to understand how images design, imprison or liberate. Filmmaker and visual artist Marion Guillard dives back into fifteen years of collected footage. Birds, American landscapes, family archives, memories of a body both hated and desired. A bulimia of images, of life. First fascinated, then saturated by her work as a wildlife filmmaker, she questions the frozen beauty…

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16:00

BAFF 2025

Rapaces  ⁄ 3' ⁄ V: EN - FR ⁄ ST - OND:  —

Selma Beaufils, Belgium 2025

Out of the Picture  ⁄ 90' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

An. Ash Smolar, Belgium, France 2025

In the presence of the directors.

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In the projection booth of CINEMATEK in Brussels, women’s voices emerge and tell their stories. On the preserved film reels, men have stripped, confined, watched, and killed countless women. Between horror and claustrophobia, cinema becomes a field of resistance. Women have always built architecture, yet their history is erased — Out of the Picture exposes this imposed silence and fights for…

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18:00

BAFF 2025

This Art Will Never Die  ⁄ 3' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

Léo Malek, Belgium 2025

Le Veilleur  ⁄ 77' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

Lou du Pontavice, Victoire Bonin, Belgium 2024

In the presence of the directors.

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In the shadow of the shelves, the cassettes whisper the memory of a world that endures. This sensory 16 mm film immerses us in a cassette and CD shop in Beirut. A tribute to the discreet carriers which fragile resistance allows works of art to continue to circulate and survive. When their son leaves for Estonia, a couple must learn to live again without the center of their world. Guangdong and…

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20:00

BAFF 2025

La Marsellesa de los borrachos  ⁄ 96' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

Pablo Gil Rituerto, Spain 2024

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A musical and political journey through Franco’s Spain and today, where singing becomes resistance and living memory. In 1961, the Italian collective Cantacronache secretly crossed Franco’s Spain to record popular songs of resistance. In 2022, Pablo Gil Rituerto retraces this journey, guided by Emilio Jona, the last living witness. Archives, landscapes, and contemporary voices weave a powerful…

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Saturday  15.11

15:30

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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17:30

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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19:00

BAFF 2025

Ocaña, retrato intermitente  ⁄ 73' ⁄ ST - OND: FR

Ventura Pons, Spain 1978

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Cult film of the Barcelona movida about the Andalusian painter Ocaña, the queer “pariah” of the Franco era. Portrait of José Pérez Ocaña (1947-1983), painter, sculptor, singer, actor and performer from Andalusia, who during the Transition roamed the Ramblas of Barcelona dressed as a queer sevillana. The film offers an immersion in the creative universe of this countercultural icon, bringing 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,…

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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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