Today in our Theatres
LEDOUX LEDOUX
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.
+ GUEST
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…
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.
+ GUEST
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…
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.
+ GUEST
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…
20:00
BAFF 2025
La Marsellesa de los borrachos ⁄ 96' ⁄ ST - OND: FR
Pablo Gil Rituerto, Spain 2024
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…
PLATEAU PLATEAU
Saturday 15.11
15:30
BAFF 2025
The Tirana Conspiracy ⁄ Il complotto di Tirana ⁄ 71' ⁄ ST - OND: FR
Manfredi Lucibello, Italy 2024
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…
17:30
BAFF 2025
Lolo & Sosaku: The Western Archive ⁄ 67' ⁄ NO DIALOGUE
Sergio Caballero, Spain 2024
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…
19:00
BAFF 2025
Ocaña, retrato intermitente ⁄ 73' ⁄ ST - OND: FR
Ventura Pons, Spain 1978
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…
Cineflagey Cineflagey
FLAGEY, Place Sainte-Croix, 1050 Bruxelles 02 641 10 20
What is the police doing ?
08.11 > 29.11
As part of the release of Dominik Moll’s Dossier 137, we invite you to (re)discover a selection of films about police institutions, their powers of action and its consequences: Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, Mathieu Kassovitz’s La haine and the documentary The Monopoly of Violence by David Dufresne.
Program
SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER + NOVEMBER
By dissecting images, sounds, and actions and reassembling them into atypical, often burlesque, fictions, Frans van de Staak created a body of work that sharpens our senses like no other. He is one of the great poets in the history of cinema, and his work is well worth rediscovering today.
Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne left us far too soon on March 16. An intuitive, radiant, and “popular” actress in the sense that she was loved by both the public and the film world. She embodied Belgian cinema with grace and authenticity, just as she illuminated French productions with her presence. “Her range was enormous. My brother and I call her our Magnani; she was our French-speaking Magnani”, said Luc Dardenne.
Memory, history, and human existence are the key elements in the work of Belgian documentarian Annik Leroy. Over a career spanning fifty years, the filmmaker has built a modest yet impressive body of work that remains, unfortunately, too little known in Belgium. CINEMATEK has given Annik Leroy carte blanche to present her films in combination with those of other filmmakers.
This autumn, CINEMATEK invites you on a journey to the heart of 1990s America, a decade in which neo-noir experienced a spectacular resurgence, making the genre ubiquitous under the impulse of influential figures such as Quentin Tarantino, John Dahl, and the Coen brothers, and through emblematic works like L.A. Confidential and The Usual Suspects.
The Belgian distributor Cinéart was founded just 50 years ago under the name Cinélibre. This 50-film program, curated by the Cinéart team, aims to highlight the richness, quality, and variety of a catalogue that subtly reflects a commitment to championing a cinema that, decade after decade, offers a specific perspective on the world.
Following in the footsteps of the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé in Paris, CINEMATEK is hosting a panorama of silent films from the Brazilian Cinémathèque this autumn, all in newly restored versions. The program is supplemented by a focus on the silent cinema of Alberto Cavalcanti, a Brazilian who began his filmmaking career in Paris during the bustling 1920s.
Throughout the year, journey through the history of silent cinema, from its origins to the rise of sound. Every screening is brought to life with live piano accompaniment.
Free Anthology The film archive is bursting with films that rarely make it into programming for various reasons. Not every film, no matter how deserving, is considered a "classic" or easily fits into a specific theme. That’s why, alongside our thematic cycles, we also select a somewhat random assortment of films to be presented without additional commentary or context under the label FREE ANTHOLOGY.
CLASSICS is a collection of milestones and masterpieces featuring iconic figures both in front of and behind the camera. These are touchstones in cinema. While one might debate their specific qualities, there’s no arguing that they have become integral to our cultural heritage. As a collection, they do more than serve as examples or set standards—they facilitate a broader dialogue about cinema.
THE SILVER SCREEN series revisits popular cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s. Classics from around the world, bringing back those unforgettable scenes where actors and actresses of the time lit up the screen. Cinema as it should always be experienced: sound and image projected on film and shown on the big screen, in a comfortable theater. And – if the film’s length allows – with a carefully selected pre-show: a trailer, a cartoon, a newsreel, or a documentary, recreating the movie-going experience of the past.
In this programme, we discover films that show us that there is another world behind the one we see every day. This autumn, we are once again colouring with cheerful, imaginative classics full of encounters with skeletons, puppets and giants. They show us that nothing is ever quite what it seems.
From classic works to super-experimental creations, from main-stream entertainment to the most militant stories: OUR STORY invites you to explore the rich history of lhbtqia+ cinema and question the complex links between the queer community and film, as film is both a space for emancipation and an instrument of discrimination. Our Story’s programmes, which also accommodate guest appearances and short contextualisations, are aimed at both the general public and audience members who want to reappropriate their film memory.
From canonical works to the most experimental creations, and from mainstream entertainment to politically engaged narratives, OUR QUEER STORY invites you to explore the rich history of LGBTQIA+ cinema. It seeks to examine the complex relationship between the queer community and the moving image, which has served as both a space for emancipation and an instrument of discrimination. Accompanied by presentations or short contextual introductions, the OUR STORY events are intended for a broad audience as well as for viewers eager to reclaim their own cinematic memory.
From the darkest corners of CINEMATEK's collection, we've unearthed a selection just for you: hilarious B-movies, spine-chilling thrillers, gripping cop dramas, giallo, slashers, blaxploitation, and other films with a unique edge. This is a must-see slice of alternative film history. Every last Friday of the month, catch a double bill: two thematically or otherwise linked films for the price of one ticket.
Straight from the obscure corners of the collection come hilarious B-movies, blood-curdling thrillers, gialli, slashers, and other exploitation films. This is a moment of alternative film history not to be missed, presented on the last Friday of every month. The series offers a two-for-one ticket: two films centered around the same theme for the price of a single ticket.
CINEMATEK will once again host the Brussels Art Film Festival (BAFF) from November 13 to November 16.
Lectures, introductions, workshops... All year round, CINEMATEK helps you discover the 7th art by calling on film-makers or specialists to come and share their knowledge and passion for cinema in our cinemas.
