From Wednesday the 2nd to Sunday the 6th of April, the 24th edition of the Courtisane film festival will take place in Ghent, Belgium. As a platform for film and audiovisual arts, the festival describes its mission to explore “the relationships between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.”

From 13–16 March, Caillou Film Festival, a new Brussels-based film festival, explores the strategies used in territorial struggles and the role of cinema in resistance.

From 13 to 15 March, Kaaitheater and KANAL-Centre Pompidou are hosting Cinema as Assembly, a three-day study circle that invites the public to come together – as an audience, as thinkers and as makers – to explore cinema’s potential as both a method and medium that can help rehearse collective organisation, militant imagination and liberatory transformation.

Malian director and writer Souleymane Cissé passed away on 19 February in Bamako, Mali, at the age of 84.

Eye Filmmuseum celebrates the legacy of Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien (1974–1989), a pioneering film collective that sought to amplify the voices of female filmmakers in the Netherlands. Running from 6 to 25 March, the programme links the collective’s work to urgent contemporary themes, fostering intergenerational discussions on equality.

On 19 February, Quatre nuits d’un rêveur (1971) by Robert Bresson will be re-released in French theatres in a 4K restoration by Carlotta Films.

For its 2025 edition, running from 24 February to 1 March, the Spanish film festival Punto de Vista will present a retrospective dedicated to the cinema of Dutch filmmaker Frans van de Staak.

During the weekend of February 21–23, the itinerant film screening troupe The Theatre of the Matters will host Peasants of the Cinema: António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, a programme dedicated to the cinema of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro.

To mark IFFR 2025 and the release of the third and final instalment of Wang Bing’s Youth films, IDFA’s Het Documentaire Paviljoen and IFFR will present Wang Bing’s complete Youth trilogy on Sunday, 9 February.

After the successful retrospective at CINEMATEK in Brussels, Chantal Akerman’s oeuvre moves to London for a complete retrospective in February and March at BFI Southbank.