Special Screenings

And there’s more! Besides its thematic film programs, the festival offers several special screenings. Let’s take a deep breath: there’s two live soundtracks, an evening in the company of emerging Belgian talent, a nostalgic matinee show that takes you back to the glory years of cinema, and Cineketje with a selection of British animation films for young children.

Live Soundtrack

Oaïstern

The Westerns of Joë Hamman and Jean Durand

Jean Durand, 1910-12, FR, 35mm > video, silent

Since 2012, the Oaïstern collective from Marseille has been helping an early 20th century genre of now forgotten cinema come back to life: the...
08.03.2014 > 22:00

Ceci n’est pas...

Belgique / België / Belgium

Short films

Shortscreen

For the annual Shortscreen programme, Offscreen and online magazine Kortfilm.be selected seven Belgian short films that fit the Offscreen criteria: original, unusual, bizarre and surprising. The films will be introduced by the filmmakers! + De Honger Benoît De Clerck,...
13.03.2014 > 20:00

The Miracle of Life

Joël Rabijns & Yves Sondermeier, 2013, BE, video, ov ang , 83'

A living placenta searches for its place in a hostile society, as it is raised as a human, a christian, a soldier. Described by the director’s duo as a bio-ethical horror movie for the whole family, this student project turned full-scale body-horror comedy is homegrown Belgian surrealism at its most trashy. +...
13.03.2014 > 22:00
Matinee screening

One Million Years B.C.

A nostalgic trip back to the Golden Age of cinema: the Sunday afternoon Matinee screening for all ages. Welcomed by old school hostesses and...
16.03.2014 > 14:00
Live Soundtrack

Segundo de Chomón

by LouisLouis & Truna

A hundred years ago (1905-1911) Spanish director Segundo de Chomon – special-effects genius, phantasmagorical cinema pioneer and arch-rival to...
22.03.2014 > 22:00

Cineketje

British Short Films

Would you like to join your kids while getting nostalgic about what used to play on television? Do you want to show them something “different”, or...
23.03.2014 > 16:00