Some 800 works of art by 270 Brussels artists, amateur and professional, fill Espace Vanderborght for the 9th edition of Carte de Visite/ ARTopenKunst (main image) The five-floor museum, located in the city-centre near Galéries
27/10/2021 - Jeroen Perceval delivers an especially harsh first feature film about a friendship which is as improbable as it is explosive between a young dealer and an old actor
27/10/2021 - Jeroen Perceval delivers an especially harsh first feature film about a friendship which is as improbable as it is explosive between a young dealer and an old actor
27/10/2021 - Jeroen Perceval delivers an especially harsh first feature film about a friendship which is as improbable as it is explosive between a young dealer and an old actor
For hundreds of hunger-striking migrants in Brussels, the situation is growing dire. And it’s threatening to fracture Belgium’s government.
Their protest — launched by migrants hoping to get formal residency after living in Belgium for years — is now nearing two months, straining their health. Six strikers have sewn their mouths shut. Five have tried to commit suicide. Some have stopped drinking water. Volunteers count a thousand hospitalizations.
Once a local issue, the strikers are gaining global attention. A U.N. human rights official came to visit them. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is one of many famous musicians, artists and filmmakers to sign an open letter lobbying on their behalf. A famous French cultural festival featured pleas for awareness of the migrants’ plight.
Screenplay News and Reviews
In a year when festivals will hope for the return of audiences, industry and some sense of normalcy,
Screen rounds up key contenders vying for the attention of programmers from France, Benelux, Nordics, Italy, Germany, Spain, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. (*denotes film previously appeared in Screen’s 2020 list)
Annette
Dir. Leos Carax
Carax’s long-awaited Los Angeles-set musical comedy co-stars Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver as an opera singer and a stand-up comedian, who are parents to a baby girl with a special gift. It is based on a screenplay by fraternal pop and rock duo Ron and Russell Mael, founding frontmen of cult band Sparks. Hopes are high that Carax’s first feature in nine years will premiere at Cannes. The director was last at the festival in competition with