From 16 June to 17 September, Jeu de Paume in Paris is hosting a major retrospective of Dutch filmmaker and photographer Johan van der Keuken.

On the occasion of the publication of The Afterimage Reader (The Visible Press, 2022) and in collaboration with CINEMATEK, Courtisane presents 12 screenings of films, mostly from CINEMATEK’s collection, that revive the British magazine Afterimage (1970-1987). Each screening is linked to an issue of the magazine.

From 2 to 3 June, the first installment of Echoes of Dissent will take place at beursschouwburg in Brussels. The program is the first part of a series of gatherings gravitating around the question: How to think of the sonic as a site of dissent? 

Austrian actor Helmut Berger, known for his long collaboration with Italian director Luchino Visconti, passed away last week at the age of 78.

Navire Argo, a French non-profit organization, has plans to create a vibrant new filmmaker’s hub in the former Éclair laboratory near Paris, dedicated to preserving photochemical film.

French writer, essayist and critic Philippe Sollers passed away last week on May 6 at the age of 86.

From July 9 to 15, Cinea invites you back to Antwerp for their yearly Zomerfilmcollege.

As a response to Jean-Luc Godard’s statement “We don’t know how to film sexual relations”, Nicole Brenez and Luc Vialle have concocted L’image des plaisirs, a programme of 216 brilliant and radical films, love poems, visual caresses or scopic impulses. The first part, subtitled Sexpérimentaux, takes place from 11 to 28 May in the Cinémathèque française.

Four times a year, the Deutsche Kinemathek presents a program of their films, which you can watch for free for three months. Until 14 July they present Female Perspectives, a program with nine feature and documentary films portraying women in front of and behind the camera.

On Friday 28 April MOUV’, the travelling cinema of Forest in Brussels, brings together film professionals for two roundtable discussions to exchange views on new forms of cinema and the role of (neighbourhood) cinema.