Antwerp

Bruges

Brussels

Charleroi

Ghent

Hasselt

Leuven

Liège

Mechelen

Mons

Namur

Nivelles

By analogy with the poster image, created by Créahm resident artist Inès Reddah, BAFF serves up an exciting edition that will open your eyes and shake up preconceived ideas. A total of 32 documentary films on artistic creation have been selected. They come from Italy, Poland, Taiwan, Denmark, Greece and Brazil. They tell stories, unravel stories we thought we knew and re-knit them together, holding up a mirror to us of sensibilities that have been shaken throughout History and through personal stories.

So this year, as every year, BAFF invites you to embrace these beneficial movements, and they're betting that after this journey through the cinemas, something will undoubtedly have moved inside you.

**Discover the festival in cinema's CINEMATEK and Palace with the Cineville Pass.**

À l'image de son affiche créée spécialement par l'artiste Inès Reddah, résidente du Créahm, le BAFF propose une édition explosive qui va écarquiller vos yeux et dynamiter les idées reçues. Au total, 32 films documentaires sur la création artistique ont été choisis. Ils viennent d'Italie, de Pologne, de Taïwan, du Danemark, de Grèce ou du Brésil. Ils racontent des histoires, détricotent et re-tricotent celles que nous pensions connaître et tendent vers nous un miroir de sensibilités bousculées par la grande Histoire et les histoires personnelles.

Alors, cette année, comme chaque année, le BAFF vous invite à épouser ces mouvements salutaires et ils font le pari qu'après cette traversée dans les salles quelque chose, sans aucun doute, aura bougé en vous.

**Découvrez le festival aux cinemas CINEMATEK et Palace avec le Pass Cineville.**

Brussels Art Film Festival

Naar analogie met het affichebeeld, gecreëerd door Créahm artieste Inès Reddah, serveert het BAFF een opwindende editie die je de ogen zal openen en vooringenomen ideeën door elkaar zal schudden. In totaal werden 32 documentaires over artistieke creatie geselecteerd. Ze komen uit Italië, Polen, Taiwan, Denemarken, Griekenland en Brazilië. Ze vertellen verhalen, ontrafelen verhalen die we dachten te kennen
en breien ze opnieuw aan elkaar, en houden ons een spiegel voor met gevoeligheden die doorheen de Geschiedenis en via persoonlijke verhalen aan het wankelen zijn gebracht.

Het BAFF nodigt je graag uit, elk jaar opnieuw, om deze heilzame bewegingen te omarmen, en ze wedden dat er na deze reis door de filmzalen ongetwijfeld iets in je bewogen zal zijn.

**Ontdek het festival in cinema's CINEMATEK en Palace met de Cineville Pass.**

Brussels Art Film Festival 2024

The urinal designed by Marcel Duchamp in 1917 represented an artistic revolution. Duchamp was considered as a genius. Filmmaker Barbara Visser portrays a certain baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven who, according to new research, was in fact behind the idea. With a sense of humour, Visser, a true specialist in what is real and what is fake, plunges us into this fascinating investigation.

Alreadymade

In 1964, Jean-Marie Drot made a documentary with Marcel Duchamp in which the filmed and the filmer play a game of chess. It's an opportunity to discuss Duchamp’s artist life, his exile, his childhood, his oeuvre, ... This moment is interwoven with images shot later of the artist's works.

Anemic Cinema + Jeu d'échecs avec Marcel Duchamp

In 1980s West Berlin, artist Jürgen Baldiga records and documents the AIDS crisis as a race against time begins. The thousands of photographs and literary works he left behind are the starting point for this film, which is designed to bear witness to the urge for life at the time, while at the same time acting as a duty of remembrance against the stigmatisation of gay life.

Baldiga - Unlocked Heart

Danish Brazil-based artist Sissel Morrell Dargis infiltrates a secret and illegal community: the baloeiros. These men, organised into teams, dedicate themselves to manufacturing giant coloured paper balloons for the simple purpose and pleasure of watching them fly away. In true thriller style, the filmmaker takes us into the underworld of these gangs hunted by the police, using thriller codes to tell us how she manages to win their trust as well as a friendship that lasts a lifetime.

Balomania

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives.

Bye Bye Tiberias

After living in Brussels for 30 years, writer Xavier Queipo is preparing to return to his native country. His friend, filmmaker Hugo Amoedo Canal, who arrived in Belgium more recently, films his move in Super 8, his memories, the sealing of the moving boxes, … He also questions his own exile and life as he watches his son grow up. (Caisses fermées, caisse ouvertes). In 2018, at the age of 102, Mam decides to call it a day. In her country, France, you can't decide that for yourself at the moment. But she doesn’t care, she will do it through Belgium. And just as well, her granddaughter Karine lives there. Filmmaker Karine Birgé tells the story of this journey using object theatre and unconventional storytelling. Along the way, Doctor Sauveur, Frankenstein, Chantal Goya and spring-loaded rabbits become her companions, helping her to stay on course and weather the storm of emotions (Bon voyage).

Caisses fermées, caisses ouvertes + Bon Voyage

Ernest Cole was the first Black South African photographer to expose the crimes of the apartheid regime in full public view. Forced into exile, he leaves for New York at the age of 27, smuggling his negatives with him, from which he produces the photo book House of Bondage (1967), still considered one of the most important photo books of the 20th century. ‘How to survive in the West’ is the question the photographer asks himself as his life, made up of wanderings between the United States and Europe, plunges him into near-total destitution. He dies in 1990, just a few days after Nelson Mandela's release, and gradually falls into oblivion until the mysterious discovery in 2017 of 60,000 negatives kept in the safe of a Swedish bank. In his new documentary, Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, who is no stranger to questions of reparation, finally rehabilitates the memory of this largely unknown figure of photojournalism. Through gripping archive footage and a personal, embodied narrative, Raoul Peck creates an eminently political story that confronts the Western world with its responsibility for the racial segregation imposed on Black populations, in South Africa and elsewhere.

Ernest Cole was the first photographer to expose the crimes of apartheid. Raoul Peck, familiar with issues of reparation, rehabilitates the memory of this largely unknown figure.

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Il padiglione sull'acqua is a sensory and contemplative stroll through the maze of the Brion Tomb, a masterpiece by visionary Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. Although originally from Venice, this artist was deeply fascinated and inspired by Japanese culture and philosophy and its reflections on beauty and harmony with sacred nature. A true jewel of modern architecture, the Brion Tomb is a bridge between Italy and Japan, a window to the East from the West, inviting us on a journey, both aesthetic and philosophical, and immersing us in the world of this fascinating architect.

Il padiglione sull'acqua

Alix Cléo Roubaud was born in 1952 and died in 1983 at the age of 31. She left behind more than 600 photographs that are now in major collections. Three years before her death, this brilliant jack-of-all-trades and friend of filmmaker Jean Eustache agreed to star in this short film, commenting on her photographs to Jean Eustache's son Boris. What appears to be a classic exercise gradually becomes a thoroughly surrealist piece (Les Photos d'Alix). The film takes us on an exploration through Pieter Bruegel's painting Hunters in the Snow, an innocent-looking winter scene with hunters, peasants, women, men and children playing on the ice. However, the voices of art historians Reindert Falkenburg and Michel Weemans point out how deceptive appearances can be... (Piège à voir)

Les Photos d'Alix + Piège à voir

David Bowie, Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, Edith Piaf, and, of course, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones; all these artists appeared before the lens of Belgian photographer Herman Selleslags, who passed away recently. The man, 80 years old, is preparing to move out of his big house in Antwerp. It's the perfect opportunity to open boxes and discover treasures that have never been shown before. It's also a chance to look back at a complicated family history and a legacy that may be heavier than it seems.

Life Will Give You Pictures

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole’s death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was. 

Little Girl Blue

From 2006 to 2023, filmmaker Marie Losier followed Canadian singer Peaches, a feminist and queer icon as well as the crazy queen of the electro punk scene. A look behind the scenes of the creative process but also a dive into the intimate life of a woman who, at the age of 57, continues to shatter dictates and taboos.

From 2006 to 2023, filmmaker Marie Losier followed Canadian singer Peaches, a feminist and queer icon as well as the crazy queen of the electro punk scene. 

Peaches Goes Bananas

'Soundtrack to a Coup d'État' highlights one of the most insidious political machinations of the 20th century: how the Belgian monarchy, the U.S. government and multinational corporations conspired to use art institutions and legendary jazz musicians as cover for covert operations to assassinate Congo's prime minister, Patrice Lumumba.

How did the Belgian monarchy and the CIA collude to use jazz musicians as cover after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba? Grimonprez pulls out the archives. 

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État

In Budapest, Mihály lives alone in his house surrounded by trees. He seems to suffer from loneliness. For unclear reasons, his beloved daughter, designer and jeweller Réka Fekete, has refused to see him for years. Filmmaker Eneos Çarka discreetly captures the bonds of the past that have shaped them and that still haunt this place (The Silence of The Banana Trees). German director Elena Alvarez Lutz accompanies Australian jewellery designer Helen Britton on her mental and physical wanderingss. An inquisitive focus guides their journey, from Australia to Germany. Portrait of a fascinating huntress coming from elsewhere (Hunter from Elsewhere).

The Silence of the Banana Trees + Hunter From Elsewhere

By investigating the mysterious disappearance of a virtuoso Brazilian pianist on the eve of the 1976 coup in Argentina, They Shot the Piano Player paints a portrait of the Golden Age of Brazilian jazz and bossa nova before the country fell under the shadow of totalitarianism. An animated and fascinating thriller in which we meet and hear João Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque and Milton Nascimento. 

They Shot the Piano Player

Ula Dudziak, a young musician with a great love for jazz, decides in the 1960s to leave Poland to pursue her passion and conquer the United States. The film retraces this fascinating and eventful journey as told by the artist herself. Using the extensive Super 8 archives depicting the People's Republic of Poland in the 1960s and the New York of the 1970s and 1980s, she describes her exile and emancipation as an artist alongside Stan Getz, Jaco Pastorius and Bobby McFerrin.

Franco-Swiss filmmaker Ursula Meier (Home, L'Enfant d'en haut, La Ligne, ...) has won numerous awards and nominations around the world for her fiction films. She has also shot several documentaries, some of which are dedicated to artists. Three of these documentaries will be screened.

Ursula Meier Films

**About the cinema**
On the outside a magnificent building from 1913; on the inside an impressive and modern film palace for everyone.

**Accessibility**
Cinema theater 1, 2 and 4 are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM). Cinema theater 3 is not accessible for PRM.

Palace

On the outside a magnificent building from 1913; on the inside an impressive and modern film palace for everyone.

**About the cinema**
Aventure offers a programme largely off the beaten track and ample room for discussion. Known as the cinema of documentaries, it is is your home away from home.

**Accessibility**
The cinema is not accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Aventure

Aventure offers a programme largely off the beaten track and ample room for discussion. Known as the cinema of documentaries.

**About the cinema**
A beautiful arthouse cinema and exhibition space, located in a monumental building from 1939 and dedicated to cinema in all it forms.

**Accessibility**
Cinema theater 1 is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM). Cinema theaters 2 and 3 are not accessible for PRM.

Galeries

An arthouse cinema and exhibition space, located in a monumental building from 1939 and dedicated to cinema in all it forms.

**About the cinema**
Nova stands for independent, contemporary and unseen films. The programme changes every two months and focusses on specific themes, festivals and special events.

**Accessibility**
The cinema theater is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Nova

Nova stands for independent, contemporary and unseen films. The programme changes every two months.

**About the cinema**
A household name in Brussels for more than half a century. Here you can see the latest films from great authors to independent makers.

**Accessibility**
Cinema theater 1 is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM). Cinema theaters 2, 3, 4 and 5 are not accessible for PMR.

Vendôme

A household name in Brussels. Here you can see the latest films from great authors to independent makers.

**About the cinema**
Kinograph, CINEMATEK and Flagey are joining forces for your new favorite film spot in the most dynamic neighborhood of Ixelles: Cineflagey! From Wednesday to Sunday, they will screen new releases, classics, documentaries and forgotten films.

**Accessibility**
The cinema theater (Studio 5: Agnès Varda) is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Cineflagey

Kinograph, CINEMATEK and Flagey are joining forces for your new favorite film spot: Cineflagey!

**About the cinema**
The Royal Belgian Film Archive brings film history to life with daily screenings of unforgettable, influential and exciting titles from their extensive archive (and beyond).

**Accessibility**
Both cinema theaters (Ledoux and Plateau) are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Cinematek

The Royal Belgian Film Archive brings film history to life with daily screenings.

**About the cinema**
Taken over by the Grignoux in 1982, the cinema le Parc is located on the edge of Liège, near Bressoux. It has a magnificent auditorium with over 400 seats. Its large stage and high quality sound system also make it a choice venue for concerts. The café le Parc located in the same street allows you to have a drink before or after your session.

**Accessibility**
The cinema theater is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Le Parc

Cinema le Parc is located on the edge of Liège. It has a magnificent auditorium with over 400 seats.

**About the cinema**
The Churchill cinema is located in the centre of Liege, in a pedestrian area just a stone's throw from the Place Cathédrale. With its splendid Art Deco façade, it gives pride of place to auteur and independent cinema as well as to more "mainstream" productions. Two art galleries welcome painters and photographers.

**Accessibility**
The cinema theaters (salle rouge, salle bleue and salle verte) are accessible to persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Churchill

Cinema Churchill is located in the centre of Liege. It shows independent cinema, classics and documentaries.

**About the cinema**
Probably the best known and most popular cinema in Liège, this complex has 4 cinemas for a total of 800 spectators and a brasserie, which serves as a place to relax, a small restaurant and also a concert hall. Located in the city centre, it is easily accessible by bus or bicycle. Three partner car parks offer a discount if you park your car there.

**Accessibility**
All the cinema theaters (1-4) are accessible for people with reduced mobility (PRM).

Sauvenière

Probably the best known cinema in Liège, this complex also offers a place to eat and relax. Located in the city centre.

**About the cinema**
Taken over by the Grignoux and completely renovated in 2016, the Caméo has 5 screens and a brasserie, the Caféo. Like the other Grignoux cinemas, it showcases the best recent films for young and old alike, and offers numerous event evenings (previews with directors and film crews, special evenings, conferences-debates with the associative world, etc.).

**Accessibility**
All the cinema theaters (1-5) are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Caméo

Caméo showcases the best recent films for young and old alike, and offers numerous event evenings.

**About the cinema**
Opened in 2017, Quai10 is a first-of-its-kind venue in Belgium that combines a cinema, a video games area and a brasserie within a state-of-the-art structure. Quai10 has 4 screens located in the city centre.

**Accessibility**
All the cinema theaters (1-4) are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Quai10 

Quai10 is a unique venue that combines a cinema, a video games area and a brasserie within a modern structure.

**About the cinema**
The Côté Parc theater is the largest but also the oldest. It is fully integrated into the Quai10 project.

**Accessibility**
The cinema theatre is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Quai10 / Côté Parc 

The Côté Parc theater is the largest but also the oldest. It is fully integrated into the Quai10 project.

**About the cinema**
Situated in the bustling heart of Brussels, at the Antoine Dansaertstraat near the Oude Graanmarkt, Cinema RITCS is the home theatre of the RITCS | Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound. It is the ultimate meeting place for film aficionados. Equipped with state-of-the-art digital film projectors and a magical silver screen seven metres in width, Cinema RITCS offers 123 seats (+2 wheelchair accessible ones) to experience a fascinating world of moving images. On top of that, many of their screenings are professionally introduced by RITCS-professors, filmmakers, cinephiles, students or other high-profile foreign or domestic guests.

*Accessibility**
The cinema theater is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Cinema RITCS

Cinema RITCS offers an eclectic variety of film classics, hidden cult gems, and new releases from Belgium and beyond.

**About the cinema**
A must-see cinema in Mons, the Plaza offers a program of quality international auteur films in a place of discovery, education, pleasure and exchange. The recently renovated cinema boasts four theaters with state-of-the-art equipment. It also has a special animation room for young audiences.

**Accessibility**
All the cinema theaters (1-4) are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Plaza Arthouse Cinema

A must-see cinema in Mons, with a program of quality films by international auteurs.

**About the cinema**
Cozy city cinema in the heart of Bruges with a curated selection of films that will make you think, laugh or be moved and appeal to young and old. Lumière Brugge offers a wide range of films, from new releases to timeless classics. Located in the center of Bruges, it is the ideal place to combine a movie with a visit to the city and the many cafes and restaurants nearby.

**Accessibility**
All the cinema theaters (1-4) are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

**Reservations**
You can reserve a seat by selecting the Cineville rate in their webshop and entering your unique pass number (found below the barcode on your pass). You’ll receive an **e-ticket**, which you must **activate at the box office no later than 15 minutes before the film starts**.

Lumière Brugge

Cozy city cinema in the heart of Bruges with a curated selection of films that will make you think, laugh or be moved.

**About the cinema**
City cinema with a quality and varied film offer with a focus on contemporary films. You can also see classics and restored films, as well as family films. The cinema has a 35mm projector and regularly screens movies on film. Located in the south of Antwerp, it is the perfect place to have a drink or dinner before or after the film, in the FOMU café or in the nearby cafes and restaurants.

**Accessibility**
Both cinema theaters are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

**Reservations**
You can reserve a seat by selecting the Cineville rate in their webshop and entering your unique pass number (found below the barcode on your pass). You’ll receive an **e-ticket**, which you must **activate at the box office no later than 15 minutes before the film starts**.

Lumière Antwerpen

City cinema with a quality and varied film offer with a focus on contemporary films.

**About the cinema**
In 2021, the doors of the new Mechelen city cinema swung open. In the beautifully renovated Oude Stadsfeestzaal, film lovers can enjoy cinema in a historic setting. The cinema brings a fascinating mix of new Belgian and European films, avant-premières in the presence of the filmmakers, family films, documentaries and restored classics.
Fancy a drink and/or snack after or before the screening? You can do so at LUX28, the cozy catering establishment on the walkways, overlooking the building's beautiful architecture.

**Accessibility**
All the cinema theaters (1-3) are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

**Reservations**
You can reserve a seat by selecting the Cineville rate in their webshop and entering your unique pass number (found below the barcode on your pass). You’ll receive an **e-ticket**, which you must **activate at the box office no later than 15 minutes before the film starts**.

Lumière Mechelen

The cinema shows a mix of new Belgian and European films, avant-premières, family films, documentaries and classics.

**About the cinema**
City cinema with a diverse film selection, from in-depth documentaries, award-winning feature films and modern classics to unconventional genre films. Before or after the film, enjoy a drink in cinemacafe Bar KINO. Extra bonus, you can also just take your drink into the cinema theater.

**Accessibility**
Cinema theaters 1 and 2 are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM). Cinema theater 3 is not accessible for PRM.

**Reservations**
You can reserve a seat by selecting the Cineville rate in their webshop and entering your unique pass number (found below the barcode on your pass). You’ll receive an **e-ticket**, which you must **activate at the box office no later than 15 minutes before the film starts**.

Cinema Cartoon’s

City cinema with a diverse film selection.

**About the cinema**
Quirky cinema, located in the heart of Leuven. In three cinemas you will discover the best films of the moment, a special youth program, fascinating documentaries, film classics, short films and more.

**Accessibility**
Both cinema theaters are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Cinema Zed - Vesalius

Quirky cinema, located in the heart of Leuven.

**About the cinema**
Quirky cinema, located in the heart of Leuven. In three cinemas you will discover the best films of the moment, a special youth program, fascinating documentaries, film classics, short films and more.

**Accessibility**
The cinema theater is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

Cinema Zed - STUK 

Discover the best films of the moment, a special youth program, fascinating documentaries, film classics, short films and more.

**About the cinema**
Sphinx cinema is a meeting place for film lovers in the heart of Ghent. On the program: something for everyone and lots to discover. Open every day! 

**Accessibility**
Cinema theater 3 is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM). Cinema theaters 1, 2, 4 and 5 are not accessible for PRM.

Sphinx cinema

Sphinx cinema is a meeting place for film lovers in the heart of Ghent.

**About the cinema**
De Cinema treats its viewers daily with a diverse film program: from historical gems on 35mm and films by up-and-coming talent, to topical documentaries and more experimental work from home and abroad.

**Accessibility**
Both cinema theaters are accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

De Cinema

De Cinema treats its viewers daily with a diverse film program.

**About the cinema**
A cinema for daredevils! KASKcinema in Ghent programs a surprising, tantalizing and adventurous selection of movies that are not shown in other cinemas. A literal heaven for any cinephile.

**Accessibility**
The cinema theater is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).

KASKcinema

KASKcinema programs a surprising, tantalizing and adventurous selection of movies that are not shown in other cinemas.

**About the cinema**
Ciné4 opened in 2020 right in the centre of Nivelles, close to the Grand Place. On its two screens you can discover both the best auteur cinema and a selection of movies for the whole family. On top of that you get a very warm welcome and the best possible screening conditions. 

**Accessibility**
Cinema theater 1 is accessible for persons with reduced mobility (PRM). Cinema theater 2 is not accessible for PRM.

Ciné4

At Ciné4 you can discover both the best of auteur cinema and a selection of movies for the whole family.

Studio Skoop

**About the cinema**
Le Stockel, one of Brussels' last remaining neighbourhood cinemas, shows the best new films, from arthouse to more commercial titles.

This authentic cinema is located in Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, a stone's throw from Dumonplein in Stokkel, and is open seven days a week. With its unique curved screen and 496 seats, you can experience film at its best here: on a grand scale and in optimal conditions.

Le Stockel

Le Stockel, from arthouse to more commercial titles.

**About the cinema**
Cinema ZED Hasselt is a distinctive arthouse cinema located by the water, housed in a former malt factory. It offers a carefully curated selection of independent films, documentaries, classics, and surprising international gems.

Here, cinema is experienced as it was meant to be: on the big screen, in a calm setting, without advertising and without popcorn. Pure cinema, with room for depth, festivals, and special screenings.

**Accessibility**
Cinema ZED Hasselt is wheelchair accessible.
There are **2 designated wheelchair spaces** in the auditorium.

Cinema Zed - Hasselt

A distinctive arthouse cinema located by the water, housed in a former malt factory.

Brussels Art Film Festival

All films from Brussels Art Film Festival