From 20 to 27 September, the second edition of Estranhos Encontros: São Paulo International Film Festival presents, for the first time in Brazil and Latin America, a retrospective devoted to Dutch filmmaker Frans van de Staak (1943–2001).

From 18 to 20 September, Ostend-based film festival Shhh returns with Becoming Sea, an immersive exploration of the body as landscape and landscape as body.

From September 15 to October 15, L’Alliance New York presents Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned, a film series programmed by Michael Witt and previously presented at the ICA in London, exploring the unrealized projects and ideas that shaped Godard’s cinema.

From 2 September to 30 October, CINEMATEK presents a complete retrospective of John Carpenter, “the master of the horror genre.”

Recently Belgian streaming platform and distributor Avila presented a new collection dedicated to one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices: South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo.

This summer, Belgian cinemas are screening retrospectives of Jacques Tati, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and, from 2 September, Jacques Demy. From 10 September, De Cinema’s Back 2 School programme kicks off for a second edition.

One year after the publication of the issue Serge Daney and the Promise of Cinema on Sabzian, accompanied by a ten-film programme at London’s ICA, Kokermag publishes a Persian-language selection devoted to Serge Daney.

The sun is out and so is the cinema-goer. Here is a list of cinema events for the summer (mostly outdoors), so you don’t have to miss the silver screen in the summer break.

Sabzian is taking a summer break. We’ll be back in September!

Vorige week overleed Frank Vande Veire, Belgisch cultuur- en kunstfilosoof, auteur en docent aan KASK / School of Arts in Gent.