On 26 July 2017, Australian film critic Adrian Martin launched his archive website, bringing together forty years of his writing on film, mostly film reviews and short essays.

The Cinémathèque française presents an exceptional series of retrospectives of the work of Robert Kramer, Kira Mouratova, Nicholas Ray, Philippe Garrel and Guy Debord.

Between August 29 and September 18, Filmmuseum Eye in Amsterdam presents a retrospective of the work of Michael Mann.

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.