Offscreen Film Festival
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The Offscreen Film Festival takes place for 3 weeks every March at Cinema Nova, Cinematek & Cinema RITCS in Brussels. We celebrate cutting-edge cinema, cult films & B-movie genres with a cornucopia of premieres & retrospectives. https://www.offscreen.be/en
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Today’s best second-hand buy. Been after this for ages, primarily because of the fantastic Barbara Walton-designed cover.
April 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today’s best second-hand buy. Been after this for ages, primarily because of the fantastic Barbara Walton-designed cover.
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reposting icymi, because this film is everything that I wished it would be
Quixotik: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s kaleidoscopic psychodrama REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND (@diamantmort.bsky.social, 2025) "dreams up the Eurospy genre as hallucinatory half-memory in an addled mind". Seen at @offscreenff.bsky.social Essential viewing!
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Reflet dans un diamant mort) (2025) - Projected Figures
Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's kaleidoscopic mystery REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND dreams up the Eurospy genre as hallucinatory half-memory
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April 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
reposting icymi, because this film is everything that I wished it would be
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Summit's gone wrong: Evan & Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin’s hilarious Buñuelian banquet RUMOURS (2024) "has G7 leaders facing an absurdist apocalypse with only bland, empty words". Screens 7pm this evening at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/10/13/r...
Rumours (2024) - Projected Figures
Evan and Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin's surrealist summit RUMOURS has G7 leaders facing an absurdist apocalypse with only bland, empty words
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March 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Summit's gone wrong: Evan & Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin’s hilarious Buñuelian banquet RUMOURS (2024) "has G7 leaders facing an absurdist apocalypse with only bland, empty words". Screens 7pm this evening at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/10/13/r...
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An interesting calenderial coincidence between The Devil Rides Out (1968) and The Wicker Man (1973), both screened @offscreenff.bsky.social. Also, and slightly concerning: my daughter's birthday.
March 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An interesting calenderial coincidence between The Devil Rides Out (1968) and The Wicker Man (1973), both screened @offscreenff.bsky.social. Also, and slightly concerning: my daughter's birthday.
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Tomorrow at 7:00 PM, I'll be introducing DEAD MAIL (2024) at the Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels. The film follows employees at a Mail Recovery Center whose job leads them to uncover a kidnapping. If you're a fan of the Coen brothers, you’ll love this one.
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March 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Tomorrow at 7:00 PM, I'll be introducing DEAD MAIL (2024) at the Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels. The film follows employees at a Mail Recovery Center whose job leads them to uncover a kidnapping. If you're a fan of the Coen brothers, you’ll love this one.
#movies #movienight #filmfest #cinema
#movies #movienight #filmfest #cinema
Offscreen Filmfestival 2025 – Giveaway Duotickets Part III – Tribute PICHA & SZULZINGER svnsunsanevortex.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/c...
First Come, First Served #14: Offscreen Filmfestival 2025 – Giveaway Duotickets Part III – Tribute PICHA & SZULZINGER @ Different Locations, Brussel (12.03-30.03.2025)
De naam Jean-Paul Walravens (°1942) zal waarschijnlijk niet veel mensen iets zeggen, maar gezien hij zijn Brusselse kinderjaren op een dieet van Charlie Chaplin en Kuifje leefde, stond het in de st…
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March 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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"two mismatched men on a pyrotechnic journey into the woods, despair and maybe hell": Joel Potrykus' resonant existentialist drama VULCANIZADORA (2024) screens 10pm today at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social. Recommended.
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Vulcanizadora (2024) - Projected Figures
Joel Potrykus' resonant drama VULCANIZADORA follows two mismatched men on a pyrotechnic journey into the woods, despair and maybe hell
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March 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"two mismatched men on a pyrotechnic journey into the woods, despair and maybe hell": Joel Potrykus' resonant existentialist drama VULCANIZADORA (2024) screens 10pm today at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social. Recommended.
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"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". Screens 6.30pm at Panic Fest & 7pm at Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...
A Desert (2024) - Projected Figures
Joshua Erkman's metacinematic feature debut A DESERT is an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths
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March 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". Screens 6.30pm at Panic Fest & 7pm at Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...
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Aanstaande vrijdag kan je tijdens Offscreen Film Festival A Desert gaan bekijken. Welke films inspireerde Joshua Erkman bij het draaien van zijn debuut? Wij vroegen het hem: fastforwardfilm.be?p=44549
March 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Aanstaande vrijdag kan je tijdens Offscreen Film Festival A Desert gaan bekijken. Welke films inspireerde Joshua Erkman bij het draaien van zijn debuut? Wij vroegen het hem: fastforwardfilm.be?p=44549
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Book signings are such magical moments! It's like holding a piece of someone's dream in your hands. Connecting with fellow readers and authors fuels my heart. Keep chasing those stories! 🌟 #booksky #books
Snapshots from last week's book signing at the Offscreen Film Festival. 📚✍️ A big thank you to everyone who stopped by.
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March 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Book signings are such magical moments! It's like holding a piece of someone's dream in your hands. Connecting with fellow readers and authors fuels my heart. Keep chasing those stories! 🌟 #booksky #books
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Tomorrow night, I’ll be introducing SUNTAN (2016), my favorite film from Offscreen's Weird Greece program. Sun-drenched, darkly funny, and unsettling. A trip to a Greek island you'll never forget!
📷 March 26 > 09:30 PM > Cinema Nova, Brussels
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📷 March 26 > 09:30 PM > Cinema Nova, Brussels
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March 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Tomorrow night, I’ll be introducing SUNTAN (2016), my favorite film from Offscreen's Weird Greece program. Sun-drenched, darkly funny, and unsettling. A trip to a Greek island you'll never forget!
📷 March 26 > 09:30 PM > Cinema Nova, Brussels
#movies #filmfestival #bioscoop #movienight #amwatching
📷 March 26 > 09:30 PM > Cinema Nova, Brussels
#movies #filmfestival #bioscoop #movienight #amwatching
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I think about at least one of these films usually once every few weeks. Absolutely brilliant & well worth checking out if you're able.
Don't miss tonight's folk horror double-bill at Cinematek in Brussels! Extraordinary socio-surreal portrait of rural England in REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE (1975) at 19h followed by a FREE screening of Alan Clarke's amazing PENDA'S FEN (1974) at 20h30. www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
March 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I think about at least one of these films usually once every few weeks. Absolutely brilliant & well worth checking out if you're able.
Don't miss tonight's folk horror double-bill at Cinematek in Brussels! Extraordinary socio-surreal portrait of rural England in REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE (1975) at 19h followed by a FREE screening of Alan Clarke's amazing PENDA'S FEN (1974) at 20h30. www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
March 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't miss tonight's folk horror double-bill at Cinematek in Brussels! Extraordinary socio-surreal portrait of rural England in REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE (1975) at 19h followed by a FREE screening of Alan Clarke's amazing PENDA'S FEN (1974) at 20h30. www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
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this, alongside THE BRUTALIST, was my favourite of the films I saw last year
We're showing the terrifying A DESERT at Cinema Nova in Brussels, 19h on Friday 28 March.
"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". US theatrical release just announced for 2 May, via @darkskyfilms.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...
March 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
this, alongside THE BRUTALIST, was my favourite of the films I saw last year
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Bong Joon Ho just used his Q&A before John Carpenter’s The Thing at the @AcademyMuseum to ask him to score his next next film — a horror flick — and Carpenter said yes!
Magical evening at the movies!
Magical evening at the movies!
March 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Bong Joon Ho just used his Q&A before John Carpenter’s The Thing at the @AcademyMuseum to ask him to score his next next film — a horror flick — and Carpenter said yes!
Magical evening at the movies!
Magical evening at the movies!
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Some of the decor at Cinema Nova in Brussels during @offscreenff.bsky.social Could it be The Lair of the White Worm?
March 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Some of the decor at Cinema Nova in Brussels during @offscreenff.bsky.social Could it be The Lair of the White Worm?
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Tonight, Monday 24 March, I'm talking to Miguel Llansó about his semi-Afro-futurist, wholly bonkers films CRUMBS (2915) & JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (2019), showing at Cinema RITCS in Brussels. One of low-budget indie cinema's most visionary, original, exhilarating voices.
MIGUEL LLANSÓ PRESENTS | Offscreen
Spanish-born Miguel Llansó, who divides his time between Spain, Estonia and Ethiopia, makes films that embrace and celebrate ideas and imagery from wildly differing cultures. His experiences in creati...
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March 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Tonight, Monday 24 March, I'm talking to Miguel Llansó about his semi-Afro-futurist, wholly bonkers films CRUMBS (2915) & JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (2019), showing at Cinema RITCS in Brussels. One of low-budget indie cinema's most visionary, original, exhilarating voices.
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Yesterday had a whale of a time talking to the mighty @paulduane.bsky.social in a Q&A about his uniquely deranged ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH at @offscreenff.bsky.social in Brussels, part of our Haunted Isles Folk Horror & Wyrd retrospective. Good, non-rambling questions from the audience this time.
March 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Yesterday had a whale of a time talking to the mighty @paulduane.bsky.social in a Q&A about his uniquely deranged ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH at @offscreenff.bsky.social in Brussels, part of our Haunted Isles Folk Horror & Wyrd retrospective. Good, non-rambling questions from the audience this time.
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Tonight! Miguel Llansó shows Marvel how it's done, multiverse and superhero-wise. Also contains kung-fu! A visionary and totally bonkers delight.
"several slices of satisfyingly weird goodness": Miguel Llansó's retrofuturist virtual-reality postmodern pizza JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (2019), screens 9pm tonight at Brussels' Cinema RITCS for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2020/05/07/j...
Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway (2019) - Projected Figures
Miguel Llansó's JESUS SHOWS ME THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY serves delicious slices of trashy postmodern retrofuturist schlock, keeping its reality virtual
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March 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Tonight! Miguel Llansó shows Marvel how it's done, multiverse and superhero-wise. Also contains kung-fu! A visionary and totally bonkers delight.
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An epic quest through astonishing landscapes, starring the extraordinary Daniel Tadesse. Another bonkers delight from Miguel Llansó; I'll be talking to him afterwards to see if I can work out where he gets his mad ideas from.
"an odd Afrofuturist odyssey that rebuilds the family of tomorrow from the discarded crumbs of today": Miguel Llansó's astonishing post-apocalyptic CRUMBS (2015) screens 7pm tonight at Brussels' Cinema RITCS for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2015/07/26/e...
East End of the World: Crises, Catastrophes and New Beginnings at the East End Film Festival 2015 - Projected Figures
Capsules: ESTATE: A REVERIE; CONTAINMENT; ASTRAEA; WELCOME TO LEITH; IVY; NOAH'S ARK; ABOVE AND BELOW; THE VISIT; DISASTER PLAYGROUND; CRUMBS
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March 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
An epic quest through astonishing landscapes, starring the extraordinary Daniel Tadesse. Another bonkers delight from Miguel Llansó; I'll be talking to him afterwards to see if I can work out where he gets his mad ideas from.
We're showing the terrifying A DESERT at Cinema Nova in Brussels, 19h on Friday 28 March.
"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". US theatrical release just announced for 2 May, via @darkskyfilms.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...
A Desert (2024) - Projected Figures
Joshua Erkman's metacinematic feature debut A DESERT is an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths
projectedfigures.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We're showing the terrifying A DESERT at Cinema Nova in Brussels, 19h on Friday 28 March.
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Oscar-winning No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say.
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
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March 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Oscar-winning No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say.
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Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Global Filmmakers call for the release of Hamdan Ballal
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March 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM
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"Combining rites of passage with state of the nation," Alan Clarke’s PENDA’S FEN (1974) is "without precedent for the way that it undermines and queers its own idyll of twentieth-century England". 8.30pm at @cinematek.bsky.social for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2016/06/05/c...
Penda's Fen (1974) - Projected Figures
Combining rites of passage with state of the nation, Penda's Fen is a queered idyll of Englishness(es). Alan Clarke directs from David Rudkin's teleplay.
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March 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
"Combining rites of passage with state of the nation," Alan Clarke’s PENDA’S FEN (1974) is "without precedent for the way that it undermines and queers its own idyll of twentieth-century England". 8.30pm at @cinematek.bsky.social for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2016/06/05/c...