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CINEMATEK has been selected as one of twelve finalists in the Heritage Tombola, a project organised by the National Lottery, Prométhéa, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage and museumPASSmusées. Their project, “10 Decades of Belgian Cinema,” aims to digitally restore twelve films spanning a century of Belgian film history – from the 1910s to the 2010s, crossing languages, genres and artistic movements.
For its second edition, Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages launches an open call for films, open until 3 June 2019.
Between April 25 and May 14, Cinema Parenthèse and the Goethe-Institut present ‘Through the Struggle, For the Struggle (I/V)’, a series of screenings that explores the relationship between film and radical politics.
On April 24, a long interview with Godard will be available on France Culture and ARTE will show Le livre d'image.
Until April 28, CINEMATEK hosts an exhibition on Charles Dekeukeleire with archival materials that have never been shown before, such as his personal notebooks.
The Criterion Channel, a subscription streaming service owned and operated by New York-based Criterion Collection, has officially launched.
The French filmmaker Agnes Varda has passed away on 29 March 2019. She was 90 years old. « Je ne veux pas montrer, mais donner aux gens l’envie de voir. » (Agnes Varda)
The Nederlands Fotomuseum has acquired Johan van der Keuken’s photo archive. This large gift consists of negatives, slides and drawings.
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