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From 22 October to 13 December, the ICA in London presents a major retrospective of Shōhei Imamura, one of post-war Japan’s most distinctive filmmakers. More than 25 years after the UK’s last major Imamura retrospective, the programme brings together new restorations, rarely seen works, contextual screenings and guest introductions, alongside a new monograph on his work.
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.
IG Filmkultur is a coalition formed by numerous occupational groups and branches of film, whose purpose is to strengthen and preserve diversity in Austrian film culture. Upon the renewal of the advisory board of the Federal Chancellery’s film subsidy, Minister for the EU, Art, Culture and Media Gernot Blümel nominated an entire group of people to the film and festival council who, according to IG Filmkultur “are not suitably qualified for this vital assignment [...]”
For its second edition, Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages launches an open call for films, open until 3 June 2019.
Between April 25 and May 14, Cinema Parenthèse and the Goethe-Institut present ‘Through the Struggle, For the Struggle (I/V)’, a series of screenings that explores the relationship between film and radical politics.
On April 24, a long interview with Godard will be available on France Culture and ARTE will show Le livre d'image.
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