Search results for
belgian cinema
Dossiers
DOSSIERS
PRESS
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 the third Thursday of each month, a selection of 12 films awarded by UPCB journalists since the association’s inception. In March, the members decided to highlight Les Rendez-vous d’Anna by Chantal Akerman.
#upcb-ubfp #chantal akerman #history of cinema #belgian cinema
DOSSIERS
PRESS
Union of the Belgian Film Press (UPCB-UBFP) celebrates its centenary
100 years of film journalism in Belgium
09.01 2025
The UBFP-UPCB is a national association representing FIPRESCI in Belgium, bringing together professional critics and journalists who promote cinema while defending the rights and interests of its members. Discover the history of the UPCB on the occasion of the association's centenary!
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 while defending the rights and interests of its members. Discover the first two films in this anniversary program!
DOSSIERS
Chantal Akerman, Restauration
The restoration of Chantal Akerman's film Demain on déménage by the Royal Film Archive of Belgium took place while the institution was preparing and organizing the retrospective dedicated to her from March to July 2024. This is an opportunity to review and examine over ten years of work on the restoration of her films. Céline Brouwez, who works on the valorization of Chantal Akerman's work within the Fondation Chantal Akerman and CINEMATEK, explains how the restoration of her films is part of a broader effort to enhance her oeuvre.
DOSSIERS
Chantal Akerman, Restauration
The restoration of Chantal Akerman's film Demain on déménage by the Royal Film Archive of Belgium took place while the institution was preparing and organizing the retrospective dedicated to her from March to July 2024. This is an opportunity to take stock and examine more than ten years spent working on the restoration of her films. Arianna Turci and Bruno Mestdagh, the heads of the film collections, explain the preparatory work that was done for the restoration of Chantal Akerman's films.
DOSSIERS
Chantal Akerman
The Cannes Film Festival highlighted the work of three generations (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Charlotte Vandermeersch and Félix Van Groeningen, Lukas Dhont and Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah) and the year ended with the consecration of Chantal Akerman by the magazine Sight & Sound.On 2 December, Sight & Sound published its list of the 100 best films in the history of cinema, and more than 1,600 critics and film specialists named Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, as the greatest film of all time.
DOSSIERS
Restauration
The man who had his hair cut short is one of the first Belgian films with an international career. The screenplay of this debut film by André Delvaux, one of the classics of Flemish magic-realist cinema, is based on the novel of the same name by Johan Daisne. The main character, lawyer Govert Miereveld, teaches at a girls' school in a provincial town. He harbours a secret platonic love for his pupil Fran, which plunges him into a downward spiral of mental disorientation.
Pages
The unique film collection of CINEMATEK, one of the most important in the world, today consists of about 180,000 copies of about 72,000 different titles: fiction films, documentaries, feature films, newsreels, short films, ... in both analogue and digital form. The collection consists of international and Belgian titles and grows every year by an average of 2,000 copies.
The Royal Belgian Film Archive collects and preserves a unique collection of films and has one of the richest and most diverse film collections in Europe (including countless non-fiction films and newsreels), which combined form a real visual memory of our history. Despite the focus within CINEMATEK on the Belgian film heritage, the archive has a large collection of international masterpieces from film history.
CINEMATEK regularly enriches its collections thanks to deposits and donations received from Belgian distributors and producers, as well as collections from Belgian and foreign institutions and individuals. Before they can be stored in our air-conditioned warehouses, these items go through various stages:
Books, magazines and web pages were written there, also about Belgian cinema. Yet it is sometimes difficult to see the trees through the forest. One focuses strictly on topicality and promotion, the other on appreciation and criticism, still others on specific actors, authors or genres.
CINEMATEK is an international film archive with a focus on Belgian, regional cinema; ‘local in an international context’. As a scientific institution, we want to share our archive and know-how with partners in the research field. As an institution of public utility, we want to share our passion for cinema with a broad educational and direct audience action.
CINEMATEK – THE ROYAL BELGIAN FILM ARCHIVE is a Public Utility Foundation. It is a bicultural institution, targeting both communities. The institution is subsidized by the Federal Ministry of Science Policy and also enjoys permanent support from the National Lottery. Together with various partners, CINEMATEK is the starting point to discover the "Belgian cinema".
The Royal Belgian Film Archive (hereinafter abbreviated CINEMATEK) cares about your privacy and takes the handling of your personal information very seriously. CINEMATEK wants to communicate very transparently about how we treat the personal information that you transfer to us. Personal data is collected, processed and stored carefully and with respect, in accordance with this statement and all legal provisions regarding the processing of personal data.
