On Friday, 16 October, the documentary platform Tënk comes to Cinema Nova to celebrate its 10th anniversary with “Boxing Against the Male Gaze,” a special evening organised in collaboration with En Ville and Cinema Nova.

CINEMATEK has been selected as one of twelve finalists in the Heritage Tombola, a project organised by the National Lottery, Prométhéa, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage and museumPASSmusées. Their project, “10 Decades of Belgian Cinema,” aims to digitally restore twelve films spanning a century of Belgian film history – from the 1910s to the 2010s, crossing languages, genres and artistic movements.

Belgisch kunstenaar en televisiemaker Stefaan Decostere lanceert een crowdfundingcampagne voor een overzichtspublicatie over zijn werk en teksten.

From 20 to 27 September, the second edition of Estranhos Encontros: São Paulo International Film Festival presents, for the first time in Brazil and Latin America, a retrospective devoted to Dutch filmmaker Frans van de Staak (1943–2001).

From 18 to 20 September, Ostend-based film festival Shhh returns with Becoming Sea, an immersive exploration of the body as landscape and landscape as body.

From September 15 to October 15, L’Alliance New York presents Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned, a film series programmed by Michael Witt and previously presented at the ICA in London, exploring the unrealized projects and ideas that shaped Godard’s cinema.

From 2 September to 30 October, CINEMATEK presents a complete retrospective of John Carpenter, “the master of the horror genre.”

Recently Belgian streaming platform and distributor Avila presented a new collection dedicated to one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices: South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo.

This summer, Belgian cinemas are screening retrospectives of Jacques Tati, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and, from 2 September, Jacques Demy. From 10 September, De Cinema’s Back 2 School programme kicks off for a second edition.

One year after the publication of the issue Serge Daney and the Promise of Cinema on Sabzian, accompanied by a ten-film programme at London’s ICA, Kokermag publishes a Persian-language selection devoted to Serge Daney.