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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
March 31, 2025 at 8:42 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...
March 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Miguel Llansó is at Cinema RITCS tonight to personally present his wild duo of dystopian sci-fi retro-futurism movies:

⚡ CRUMBS (2015) – 7 PM
⚡ JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (2019) – 9 PM

Two movies for the price of one!

#Brussels #filmfestival #filmmaking #masterclass #offscreenff
March 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
TONIGHT! Friday 21 March, from 19h00, @annebillson.bsky.social will be presenting a Nigel Kneale double-bill at Cinematek in Brussels, part of
our "Haunted Isles" retrospective: Hammer's QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1967) (in Technicolor!) followed at 21h00 by a FREE screening of THE STONE TAPE (1972).
March 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🔥 THE MARK 🔥

A crime thriller where crooks, stolen gold, and psychedelic ‘70s vibes collide. 🌊💰🔫

From the Aegean coast to Amsterdam, this rare gem is a must-see for fans of vintage noir, euro-crime, and twisted betrayals. Introduced by Jacques Spohr

📅 March 19 > 8:50 PM > Cinema Aventure
March 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Don’t miss this rare screening of THE DESERTER (O Lipotaktis, 1970), a bold Greek film made under the shadow of the junta. A must-see, especially if you loved yesterday's The Fear.

The film will be introduced by Jacques Spohr (L'insatiable).

📅 March 19, 7:00 PM
📍 Cinema Aventure, Brussels
March 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Dark secrets, twisted desires, and cinematic rebellion! 🖤🇬🇷 Tonight at Cinema Aventure, we’re screening two groundbreaking Greek exploitation classics: THE FEAR (07:15 PM), a subversive 1966 psychodrama, and THE WILD PUSSYCAT (09:30 PM), a razor-sharp story of female empowerment and revenge.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Waiting for THE WICKER MAN to start at Offscreen Film Festival.
March 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani + cast & crew present the Benelux première of their latest film, REFLET DANS UN DIAMANT MORT at Offscreen Film Festival. Film is amazing & totally bonkers; Death in Venice + James Bond + Diabolik, with the meta getting so meta it out-metas the very idea of meta itself.
March 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels gets into full swing at the start of its first weekend in Cinema Nova, with Rupert Russell's THE LAST SACRIFICE, Wyrd British TV Night (including Apaches!) hosted by @bobfischer.bsky.social, GHOSTWATCH & cucumber crocodiles in the bar. (Photos by Kristof Vde)
March 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The Joys of British Cuisine, via the Vincent Price school of cooking, in the bar at Cinema Nova at the Wyrd British TV Night, where Cucumber Crocodiles were on the menu. After Eight mints were freely distributed in the foyer.
March 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
British Wyrd TV Night gets off to a cracking start with@bobfischer.bsky.social presenting a ton of Public Information films (Apaches, Dark & Lonely Water, don't polish your floor or boil a kettle on a boat etc), STIGMA & GHOSTWATCH, just to prove to Belgians that we British are COMPLETELY NORMAL.
March 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Opening night at the 18th edition of Offscreen Film Festival with a screening of transcendental body horror film ELSE, a Belgian/French co-production directed by Thibault Emin. Photographs by Kristof Ven den Eynde.
March 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Sunday 30 March, 18h00 at Cinema Nova in Brussels - a tribute to David Lynch: TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN part 8, aka "GOTTA LIGHT?" Described by the A.V. Club as "one of the most artistically daring episodes in the history of American television." Free entry!
www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
March 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Less than a fortnight before Offscreen Film Festival begins in Brussels! Full programme here, includes premieres; "The Haunted Isles" folk horror & wyrd retrospective; Greeksploitation from Island of Death to Yorgos Lanthimos; controversial Belgian animator Picha - & plenty more! www.offscreen.be/en
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Latest edition of our brochure and poster artwork for this year's Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels, now with all our partner logos added. By the brilliant Gilles Vranckx, who comes up trumps every year. Full festival programme here: www.offscreen.be
February 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Offscreen is celebrating Picha & Boris Szulzinger with a special retrospective program! Even better—Picha will be joining us for the event! A rare opportunity to hear from the controversial animation master himself.

📍Info & tickets: www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
February 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🌿🔥 From eerie moors to pagan rituals—dare to enter the world of Folk Horror & the Wyrd in the UK & Ireland! 👁️‍🗨️ Expect haunted landscapes, unsettling legends, and plenty of chills. Check out the full programme here: www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...
February 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🌿🔥 From eerie moors to pagan rituals—dare to enter the world of Folk Horror & the Wyrd in the UK & Ireland! 👁️‍🗨️ Expect haunted landscapes, unsettling legends, and plenty of chills. Check out the full program here: www.offscreen.be/nl/offscreen...

#filmfestival #cinema #Brussels #FolkHorror #movies
February 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Benelux premiere of REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND (poster artwork by Gilles Vranckx), the new film by Hélène Cattet and Brono Forzani: Offscreen Film Festival, 19h30 on Saturday 15 March at Cinema Nova in Brussels. #LesBelges www.offscreen.be/nl/offscreen...
February 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The Offscreen Film Festival Programme (12-30 March 2025) is now online! Line-up includes Belgian premieres, British & Irish Folk Horror & Wyrd, Greeksploitation & the often non-PC, but always boundary-pushing & scabrously funny adult animated films of Picha. www.offscreen.be/en
February 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
And here's the back of the brochure design for this year's Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels, 12-30 March.
February 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
New Offscreen Film Festival poster has just dropped! Poster art, as always, by the absurdly talented Gilles Vranckx. Make a date with Cinema Nova, Cinematek, Cinema Ritcs and Cinema Aventure in Brussels, 12-30 March 2025. Be there or be square!
February 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Offscreen Film Festival artwork from 2017 to 2020 (when we had to shut down halfway through the festival because of Covid). By the brilliant Gilles Vranckx. Old festival programmes can be perused on the Offscreen website, under Archive. www.offscreen.be/en
December 3, 2024 at 11:25 AM
On the last Friday of every month, Offscreen presents a "B-to-Z" double-bill at Cinematek in Brussels. This month we presentntwo of the best "Yuppie Nightmare" films from the 1980s: Martin Scorsese's AFTER HOURS (1985) and Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD (1986). www.offscreen.be/en/b-z-doubl...
November 18, 2024 at 11:13 AM