On the occasion of the 2023 edition of Courtisane, we browsed through our archive and compiled this reading list for the upcoming festival.

Every year, the collective Elles Tournent organises the Elles tournent / Dames draaien Festival where women directors are invited to present their films and exchange with the public. This year the festival takes place from 22 to 27 March.

Café Lumière: An Homage to Cinema is een nieuwe cinefiele website gelanceerd door filmonderzoekers Ive Verdoodt en Tim Deschaumes. De website wil vluchtige kijkervaringen een meer bestendig karakter geven en bij uitstek filmische momenten vieren.

On 4 March, SoundImageCulture invites you for an afternoon & evening of screenings, discussions, and warm soup on the occasion of the Brussels launch of the anthology Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter.

Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye passed away on 22 February at the age of 79. Faye was a groundbreaking figure in African cinema and the first Black woman from sub-Saharan Africa to direct a commercially distributed film.

Next month, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen will premiere Philippe Grandrieux’s new staging of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. On this occasion, three of his films will be screened in Flemish cinemas.

The annual Classics Restored Festival organised by Cinea is returning on March 3rd, visiting six different Belgian cinemas with a rich program of recently restored films.

As a tribute to film composer Angelo Badalamenti, KASKcinema is screening the first four episodes of Twin Peaks (1990-1991) this Sunday afternoon.

Two films by Belgian-Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi, Fertile Memory (1981) and Ma’loul Celebrates Its Destruction (1985), are newly available to stream on Avila.

On the the occasion of the closing day of the exhibition It Might be a Mirage, West Den Haag will hold a special screening tomorrow of Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinema, the monumental film essay the late director released in 1998 to commemorate one hundred years of cinema.