January 2025

Cesare deve morire (2012) – Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani
6 January 2025 | 19.00

Every year, inmates at a Roman prison perform a well-known play. For this film, they sank their teeth into Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

Challengers (2024) – Luca Guagdanino
6 January 2025 | 21.00

Former tennis prodigy Tashi is married to a champion on a losing streak. Then, he must face off against his former best friend – and Tashi’s ex.

Do the Right Thing (1989) – Spike Lee
7 January 2025 | 19.00

A humorous yet intense tale of racial tensions in Bedford Stuyvesant, a black neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.

Gegen die Wand (2004) – Fatih Akin
8 January 2025 | 19.00

Outcasts Sibel and Cahit, second-generation Turkish-German immigrants, enter a marriage of convenience to free Sibel from her oppressive family life.

The Teacher’s Choice: Patrick Geeraerts
13 January 2025 | 19.00

Editing professor Patrick Geeraerts shows his film of choice, a chaotic Latin American epic in which multiple storylines violently collide.

Eva reste au placard les nuits de pleine lune (2006) – Alex Stockman
14 January 2025 | 19.00

The difficult life of Michel, afflicted by a muscular disease, changes every month at full moon into a carefree existence.

The Look of Silence (2014) – Joshua Oppenheimer
15 January 2025 | 19.00

Joshua Oppenheimer continues exploring the mass murder of a million communists and suspected communists in 1960s Indonesia.

Dahomey (2024) – Mati Diop
16 January 2025 | 19.00

In November 2021, 26 treasures from the kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the current Republic of Benin.

Working Songs Vol. 1 (2021) – Sanja Mitrović
20 January 2025 | 19.00

A number of guests were invited to interpret a selection of working songs from different cultures. Recording of a live set in Ancienne Belgique.

There Is No Evil (2020) – Mohammad Rasoulof
21 January 2025 | 19.00

In four stories, Mohammad Rasoulof shows the human consequences of Iran’s death penalty system. Winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin.

Bringing out the Dead (1999) – Martin Scorsese
22 January 2025 | 19.00

Underrated collaboration between Scorsese, actor Nicolas Cage and screenwriter Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) about a jaded paramedic in Manhattan.

Climax (2018) – Gaspar Noé
23 January 2025 | 19.00

Film by Gaspar Noé that caused a feverish hype in 2018. A hallucinatory, frenzied performance full of dance and darkness.

Aftersun (2022) – Charlotte Wells
27 January 2025 | 19.00

Trying to understand her late father’s dark side, an adult woman reflects on her memories of their last vacation together.

In the Mood for Love (2000) – Wong Kar-wai
28 January 2025 | 19.00

Two neighbors (Tony Leung and Maggie Chung) cross paths in Wong Kar Wai’s matchless portrait of a quiet but passionate sensuality.

Paradigma (2024) – Jozef Devillé, Pablo Eekman
29 January 2025 | 19.00

This essayistic author’s documentary uses delicious archival footage to reveal that our society is defined by the stories we tell.