This December grab the chance to watch a selection of the best recent movies from Hong Kong at locations in Brussels and Antwerp ! More info: click here
September 15 > 18 at Cinema Nova: Transgression, The Extreme Underground
Cinema Nova will open its new season’s programming with taboo breaking underground cinema in the presence of filmmakers Nick Zedd and Wilhelm Hein. click here for more info
5th edition of the Offscreen Film Festival: March 7 > 27, 2012
The 5th edition of the Offscreen Film Festival, the indispensable gathering for film fans with a taste for the unconventional, will take place in Brussels from March 7 till 25, 2012. We’re open for submissions. Interested? Please write to us before December 30 via the contact button above.
Out Loud!
Four Wednesdays and Thursdays in June: a wide selection of music documentaries on the roof terrace of the Beursschouwburg in the centre of Brussels. Check out the trailer!
The fat lady sang
And this year’s edition is over – after three weeks of the best and weirdest in classic and new cinema, Offscreen leaves the earth’s orbit, off to explore strange new worlds so that next year we’ll be able to surprise you once more, so consider yourselves invited ! See you all next year !
Face to face with Uranus!
We’ve saved the best for last! Our bizarre Face/Off module’s surgical identity crisis offers you four unmissable gems on the big screen – the unforgettable poetic images of French classic Les Yeux sans Visage, film noir Dark Passage with a mummified Humphrey Bogart slurping liquor through a straw, beautifully styled and extremely strange Japanese new …
Come drink with Tony Rayns
Why does Tony Rayns show up worldwide to give lectures on Asian cinema? Because worldwide there simply is no bigger expert! So grab this chance to listen to the man talk about the most successful Hong Kong film studio of the sixties and seventies, and about the director who with a graceful yet well-aimed kick …
A visit by Monte Hellman
Our central guest of the weekend is seventies cult film director Monte Hellman. His bleak road movie Two Lane Blacktop is showing in a double bill this Saturday at Bozar, together with the avant-première of his latest picture Road to Nowhere. On Sunday he will introduce three of his films at Cinema Nova: starting with …
Shaw? Shaw! Shaw!!
Friday and Saturday there’s even more Shaw on the menu! A unique chance to admire the classics on extremely rare 35mm film prints, often the last print in existance worldwide. Friday is centred around the hidden gems of the ridiculously undervalued director Sun Chung – who made the Shaw-studios’ visually richest films. Energetic kung fu-movies …
Everybody was kung fu fighting
Everybody was kung fu fighting! Or at least – starting on Thursday, when we’ll be playing the first two movies of our Shaw Brothers-module at Cinema Nova. Thursday we’ll serve as first course two highly regarded Shaw-classics, both by Lau Kar Leung. Himself a master in kung fu, Lau was a small and lean guy …
