The World Festival of Wild Cinemas will take place in Brussels from 11 to 15 September. The festival will host a selection of films from around the world, in the presence of the directors. There will be themed film programs, conversations, workshops, concerts and a film and sound library.  

During its biannual film festival, De Imagerie shows unique films, from both promising as of more established names from the documentary, political and experimental film landscape.

The French director of photography Pierre Lhomme passed away on 4 July, aged 89 years. In 1963 he makes Le joli mai with Chris Marker. He excells not only with Jean Eustache on La maman et la putain (1973) and Jean-Pierre Melville’s L’armée des ombres (1969) but also in his work for Alain Cavalier, James Ivory, Chris Marker, Marguerite Duras, Robert Bresson, Joris Ivens, Costa-Gavras, Eric Rohmer and many others.

This year's edition of the Summer Film College in Antwerp (July 7–13) will focus on the lesser known and screened work of Roberto Rossellini, and the ‘other’ American cinema of the ‘Shady 80s’.

An overview of the graduation screenings of the film schools in Flanders and Brussels.

An eulogy to the Belgian-French writer and director François Weyergans who passed away.

The Swiss critic and longtime director of the Cinémathèque in Lausanne, Freddy Buache, has passed away. 

Rik Kuypers, een van de pioniers van de Vlaamse film is op 21 mei 2019 op 94-jarige leeftijd overleden.