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By, For And With The Community: LGBTQ+ Film Festivals In The Low Countries

19 March 2024

Belgium and the Netherlands have nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to LGBTQ+ film festivals. The initiatives are many and varied, and while their aim is obviously to showcase the work of filmmakers, their role goes beyond simply screening films. Several festivals play a crucial role in providin

Sex In The Cinema? Censorship In The Netherlands, Deleted Scenes In Belgium

27 February 2024

The Netherlands was long considered more progressive in cinema than Belgium thanks to Blue Movie, Mira and Turkish Delight. Those films made a splash in the 1970s with nudity and sex. Surprisingly enough, film censorship was more robust in the Netherlands than in Belgium.

In The Uncomfortable Documentary ‘White Balls On Walls’, The Stedelijk Museum Looks In The Mirror

19 January 2024

In White Balls on Walls Sarah Vos follows how under new directorship, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is wrestling with a more diverse and inclusive trajectory for its collections and staff. ‘The national character often reveals itself subconsciously in meetings’, says Vos about her deliciousl

Holocaust Past Meets Modern Amsterdam in Steve McQueen Documentary ‘Occupied City’

6 December 2023

12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen takes us on an amazing, meditative journey through Amsterdam in Occupied City. His documentary shows how the Second World War has shaped the contemporary face of the Dutch capital.

The Belgian Films That Captivated Cannes

15 May 2023

It wasn’t just that the films Close, The Eight Mountains and Tori and Lokita all received awards at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. All three of them are also humane, authentic films about friendship, which try to speak the unspeakable through images.

The War Left Its Mark on Raoul Servais, and Raoul Servais Left His Mark on the War

6 March 2023

Raoul Servais escaped death more than once during the Second World War. The award-winning Ostend filmmaker and animator (1928-2023) would later put that war legacy to creative use. A new exhibition at the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres and a publication closely examine Servais’ war memories.

How Filmmakers Lose Themselves in the Gaze of Vermeer’s Elusive Girls

22 February 2023

The Oscar-nominated Girl with a Pearl Earring, the breakthrough film of a very young Isabelle Huppert and even a legendary, never-finished feature film by Salvador Dalí - many a filmmaker has been inspired by Vermeer's work. A story about the impossible love between master and maid.

The State of Flemish Cinema: Professionalisation Pays Off

5 September 2022

It took protests and demands by directors and producers to get a proper Flemish film fund up and running. And while the region was late to the party, the progress it has made in the sector in twenty years is nothing short of remarkable.

A House as a Second Skin. The Documentary ‘Housewitz’ by Oeke Hoogendijk

4 July 2022

Oeke Hoogendijk’s Housewitz is a documentary portrait of her mother whose phobias have kept her from setting foot outside her house for about three decades. Her cluttered upstairs rooms are full of "unprocessed junk." A film about a house as a second skin: about security, being trapped and travell

Paul Verhoeven Questions the Very Nature of Belief in ‘Benedetta’

15 July 2021

Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, known for legendary blockbusters such as RoboCop, Showgirls and Basic Instinct, is back with Benedetta, a film inspired by the true story of a 17th-century nun, mystic and lesbian. Benedetta was presented in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

When Taking Your Time Takes a Long Time. The Documentary ‘100UP’ by Heddy Honigmann

6 July 2021

What is it that makes people get out of bed day in, day out for over a century? This is the question documentary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann asks seven quirky centenarians in her new film 100UP.

The Terror of the Smile. Loneliness in Film

26 November 2020

The coronavirus pandemic makes this more obvious than ever: despite our constant connection via all kinds of screens, loneliness appears to be a growing problem. How do you discuss this problem? Does it help to give a face to loneliness? In what way? These questions are addressed in the interdiscipl

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