Female Gaze

If you are to believe film history, women mostly function as plot devices, lust objects or support for strong male protagonists. It took a while before film caught up to reality, but in the two short film compilations themed around the female gaze, nothing remains of this outdated worldview. The filmmakers peel back the layers of a groundbreaking orange, rewrite familiar red-hooded fairy tales, and dig deep beneath the archeological surface. In the context of Europalia España there is an aditional Female Gaze programme featuring Spanish makers. Expect a programme that thoroughly challenges the average film's perspective.

Now screening

L'Art d'être heureux

Belgian artist and humorist Stefan Liberski brings together on screen two hilarious monsters of Belgian cinema: Benoît Poelvoorde and François Damiens.

Incendies

On reading their mother's will, Jeanne and Simon Marwan are given two envelopes: one for a father they thought dead and the other for a brother they never knew existed.