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Discover this spring: Forbidden Pilgrimage by Ellen Vermeulen.

2025 PROGRAMME

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→ Rosas danst Rosas
In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

Sphinx Cinema, Ghent
+ Q&A with Mathijs Poppe
In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

Lumière, Mechelen
+ Q&A with Mathijs Poppe
In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

Lumière, Bruges
+ Q&A with Mathijs Poppe
In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

In cinemas
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

→ Branden
Cinéma Moderne | FIFEQ, Montreal
+ Conversation with Kamila Kuc
Avila, present!
→ Branden
Avila, present!
→ Une femme qui part
Forbidden Pilgrimage (Ellen Vermeulen, 2024)

In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.

Cinema RITCS, Brussels
+ Q&A with Ellen Vermeulen
In cinemas
→ Une femme qui part
Forbidden Pilgrimage (Ellen Vermeulen, 2024)

In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.

De Cinema, Antwerp
+ Dynamic Hatha Yoga
Avila, present!
→ Une femme qui part
Forbidden Pilgrimage (Ellen Vermeulen, 2024)

In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.

Avila, present!
→ Une femme qui part
Forbidden Pilgrimage (Ellen Vermeulen, 2024)

In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.

CC Jacques Franck, Saint-Gilles
+ Q&A with Ellen Vermeulen
Avila, present!
→ Une femme qui part
Forbidden Pilgrimage (Ellen Vermeulen, 2024)

In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.

Avila, present!
→ Une femme qui part
Forbidden Pilgrimage (Ellen Vermeulen, 2024)

In 1952, Marie-Louise Chapelle was the first French woman to reach an unclimbed peak in the Himalayas. Years later, filmmaker Ellen Vermeulen follows in her footsteps. An intimate journey through snow landscapes in which personal ambitions, social constraints, and the complexity of being a woman take center stage.

→ Les gens du quartier
Les gens du quartier (Jean Harlez, 1955)
Jean Harlez,

An old coco merchant is making his way through the bustling market squares of the Marolles neighborhood with a large beverage dispenser on his back, serving licorice lemonade to locals. A precious document of city life in mid-century Brussels.

CC Bruegel, Brussels
+ Conversation with William Henne from Atelier Zorobabel
→ Les gens du quartier
Les gens du quartier (Jean Harlez, 1955)
Jean Harlez,

An old coco merchant is making his way through the bustling market squares of the Marolles neighborhood with a large beverage dispenser on his back, serving licorice lemonade to locals. A precious document of city life in mid-century Brussels.

CC Bruegel, Brussels
+ Soup before the screening
→ Les gens du quartier
Les gens du quartier (Jean Harlez, 1955)
Jean Harlez,

An old coco merchant is making his way through the bustling market squares of the Marolles neighborhood with a large beverage dispenser on his back, serving licorice lemonade to locals. A precious document of city life in mid-century Brussels.

Avila, present!
→ Ma'loul fête sa destruction
→ Apple Cider Vinegar
Natuurpunt Jabbeke, Jabbeke
+ Q&A with Sofie Benoot

Added Online

Film
Thumb Je, tu, il, elle

A feature debut that recounts the last three moments of a young girl's adolescence, painfully approaching adulthood, and who will have to give up something of herself to conform.

Film
Here (Bas Devos)

A gentle construction worker from Brussels is about to leave for his homeland Romania. He meets a young, Belgian-Chinese woman who is doing doctoral research on mosses. A fragile plea for more rapprochement, to the world and each other.

Film
L'usine de Bazouqa (Atelier Graphoui)

A group of children from Brussels bring a thrilling adventure to life in a short animated film. Spiderman and his gang try to outsmart the police, but they are caught by surprise in an old chewing gum factory.

Film
Mômimages (Patrick Van Antwerpen)

Six Brussels children make an animated film together that reveals their view of the world. Filmmaker Patrick Van Antwerp gives a fascinating insight into their creative process and the workings of the animation studio.

Programme
Thumb Floréal

This short film program explores several Brussels neighbourhoods. These four films are charming and moving portraits of neighbourhood residents and together span a period of nearly 60 years, offering a special look at a city in constant transformation.

Film
Rue de la perle (Atelier Graphoui)

A stop-motion film created by a group of children who tell about their love of football on the streets of a working-class Brussels neighborhood. A playful ode to fantasy and the importance of open space in the city.

Film
Rocky Two (Atelier Graphoui)

Children from Brussels create an animated film on the theme of "play" with sets made from black-and-white photos of their homes. From Monopoly to video games, each story explores creativity and imagination.

Film
Pas de panique (Atelier Graphoui)

Inspired by their teacher during their first history lesson, eight- and nine-year-old children decide to make an animated film about prehistory. In four colorful scenes, they bring the past to life.

Programme
Thumb Atelier Graphoui

This short film program showcases five animated films made in the 1980s by children at Atelier Graphoui workshops. Mixing techniques and free-writing, these playful films amplify minority voices, reflecting Graphoui's decades-long work with non-filmmakers.

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Film
Apple Cider Vinegar (Sofie Benoot, 2024)
Apple Cider Vinegar
Sofie Benoot,
Film
Thumb Carry On
Carry On
Mieriën Coppens,
Film
Thumb Et leurs lettres
Et leurs lettres
Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens,
Film
Thumb La maison
La maison
Elie Maissin, Mieriën Coppens,