Offscreen Film Festival

Special screenings (matinee, symposium, tributes, Cinema Bis Belge, Offscreen On Tour etc) now added to Offscreen Film Festival website. www.offscreen.be/en

Offscreen Film Festival: the 2026 poster (by Gilles Vranckx) depicting a Belgian Malinois wearing the uniform of Spanish dictator General Franco, with John Woo-type doves fluttering around its head, against a skew-whiff background of USA-style red stripes and a blue star, with a rifle-sight target over the festival's slogan ("Join the cult!") and the festival's black and white logo approximately two-thirds of the way down.

The 2026 OFFSCREEN FILM FESTIVAL (11-29 March) programme is now online! PREMIERES + EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983 + HEROIC BLOODSHED: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WOO + ONLY IN AMERICA? DELUSIONS OF DEMOCRACY + HARRY KÜMEL DOUBLE-BILL + EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC; and more! www.offscreen.be

Premieres include EGGHEAD REPUBLIC (from the directors of ANIARA), JUNK WORLD, THE VIRGIN OF THE QUARRY LAKE, BALEARIC, Ben Wheatley's BULK, DAWNING, NEW GROUP, THEY COME OUT OF MARGO, Mark Jenkin's ROSE OF NEVADA, MAG MAG, BARRIO TRISTE & A USEFUL GHOST. www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...

Heroic Bloodshed: Hong Kong, Hollywood and the Cycle of Influence - Projected Figures HEROIC BLOODSHED: HONG KONG, HOLLYWOOD AND THE CYCLE OF INFLUENCE shows how US cinema influenced a Hong Kong genre, and vice versa,

The full programme for this year's @offscreenff.bsky.social (11-29 March in Brussels) has now been announced, and includes a strand devoted to the cinema of John Woo. So here is a piece I have written on Heroic Bloodshed, the genre forever associated with Woo. projectedfigures.com/2020/04/19/h...

OFFSCREEN FILM FESTIVAL: Brussels March 11-29. Full programme now online, including ticket details. Premieres, Spanish genre, 1970s US paranoia, John Woo, Harry Kümel, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Man Who Fell to Earth and more!

Futurama is brilliant. Some classic episodes even in the final season. Plus there's one episode that makes me cry even just thinking about it - I can't remember The Simpsons ever having made me cry like that.

Two bloody hands, each holding an eyeball.

...but also lesser-known gems such as THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK, BLOOD CEREMONY, KILLER OF DOLLS, CREATION OF THE DAMNED, THE GLASS CEILING, I HATE MY BODY, POACHERS, FACES, CANICHE. Each new, unfamiliar film turned out to be a total delight, audacious, outrageous and/or completely bonkers.

EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983. This is a FANTASTIC restrospective, featuring not just classics like WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?, LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE, THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED, CANNIBAL MAN, BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE, ARREBATO... www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...

OFFSCREEN FILM FESTIVAL: Brussels March 11-29. Full programme now online, including ticket details. Premieres, Spanish genre, 1970s US paranoia, John Woo, Harry Kümel, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Man Who Fell to Earth and more!

Offscreen Film festival, 11-29 March 2026, in Brussels. Full programme now online: www.offscreen.be

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Premieres include EGGHEAD REPUBLIC (from the directors of ANIARA), JUNK WORLD, THE VIRGIN OF THE QUARRY LAKE, BALEARIC, Ben Wheatley's BULK, DAWNING, NEW GROUP, THEY COME OUT OF MARGO, Mark Jenkin's ROSE OF NEVADA, MAG MAG, BARRIO TRISTE & A USEFUL GHOST. www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...

Two bloody hands, each holding an eyeball.

...but also lesser-known gems such as THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK, BLOOD CEREMONY, KILLER OF DOLLS, CREATION OF THE DAMNED, THE GLASS CEILING, I HATE MY BODY, POACHERS, FACES, CANICHE. Each new, unfamiliar film turned out to be a total delight, audacious, outrageous and/or completely bonkers.

EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983. This is a FANTASTIC restrospective, featuring not just classics like WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?, LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE, THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED, CANNIBAL MAN, BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE, ARREBATO... www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...

Offscreen Film festival, 11-29 March 2026, in Brussels. Full programme now online: www.offscreen.be

General Franco in military uniform and sash, except instead of a human head it's a Belgian Malinois, Background is red stripes, a blue star and doves. Lots of doves. The OFFSCREEN Film Festival logo is front and centre, below it are the names of the festival venues and the slogan "JOIN THE CULT" with a rifle sight target on the "THE".

Preview of this year's Offscreen Film Festival poster by Gilles Vranckx. Full programme to come later this week, but treats include:
EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983
HEROIC BLOODSHED: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WOO
ONLY IN AMERICA? DELUSIONS OF DEMOCRACY
+ PREMIERES!
Brussels, 11-29 March

General Franco in military uniform and sash, except instead of a human head it's a Belgian Malinois, Background is red stripes, a blue star and doves. Lots of doves. The OFFSCREEN Film Festival logo is front and centre, below it are the names of the festival venues and the slogan "JOIN THE CULT" with a rifle sight target on the "THE".

Preview of this year's Offscreen Film Festival poster by Gilles Vranckx. Full programme to come later this week, but treats include:
EXORCISING FRANCO: SPANISH GENRE CINEMA 1968-1983
HEROIC BLOODSHED: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN WOO
ONLY IN AMERICA? DELUSIONS OF DEMOCRACY
+ PREMIERES!
Brussels, 11-29 March

Any day now!

A vintage hardback book - No Medicine For Murder by Jeanne Wilson. The illustrated cover shows a dark-haired woman in a tan dress. She is on the midst of stopping a glass of red wine and her eyes are wide in shock.

Today’s best second-hand buy. Been after this for ages, primarily because of the fantastic Barbara Walton-designed cover.

reposting icymi, because this film is everything that I wished it would be

Rumours (2024) - Projected Figures Evan and Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin's surrealist summit RUMOURS has G7 leaders facing an absurdist apocalypse with only bland, empty words

Summit's gone wrong: Evan & Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin’s hilarious Buñuelian banquet RUMOURS (2024) "has G7 leaders facing an absurdist apocalypse with only bland, empty words". Screens 7pm this evening at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/10/13/r...

An interesting calenderial coincidence between The Devil Rides Out (1968) and The Wicker Man (1973), both screened @offscreenff.bsky.social. Also, and slightly concerning: my daughter's birthday.

Tomorrow at 7:00 PM, I'll be introducing DEAD MAIL (2024) at the Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels. The film follows employees at a Mail Recovery Center whose job leads them to uncover a kidnapping. If you're a fan of the Coen brothers, you’ll love this one.

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First Come, First Served #14: Offscreen Filmfestival 2025 – Giveaway Duotickets Part III – Tribute PICHA & SZULZINGER @ Different Locations, Brussel (12.03-30.03.2025) De naam Jean-Paul Walravens (°1942) zal waarschijnlijk niet veel mensen iets zeggen, maar gezien hij zijn Brusselse kinderjaren op een dieet van Charlie Chaplin en Kuifje leefde, stond het in de st…

Offscreen Filmfestival 2025 – Giveaway Duotickets Part III – Tribute PICHA & SZULZINGER svnsunsanevortex.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/c...

Vulcanizadora (2024) - Projected Figures Joel Potrykus' resonant drama VULCANIZADORA follows two mismatched men on a pyrotechnic journey into the woods, despair and maybe hell

"two mismatched men on a pyrotechnic journey into the woods, despair and maybe hell": Joel Potrykus' resonant existentialist drama VULCANIZADORA (2024) screens 10pm today at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social. Recommended.
projectedfigures.com/2024/06/09/v...

A Desert (2024) - Projected Figures Joshua Erkman's metacinematic feature debut A DESERT is an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths

"an elegiac neo-noir located where photography, pornography and geology cross paths": A DESERT heralds Joshua Erkman's "mysterious, miraculous arrival in the movie-making landscape". Screens 6.30pm at Panic Fest & 7pm at Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/06/08/a...

Aanstaande vrijdag kan je tijdens Offscreen Film Festival A Desert gaan bekijken. Welke films inspireerde Joshua Erkman bij het draaien van zijn debuut? Wij vroegen het hem: fastforwardfilm.be?p=44549

Tomorrow night, I’ll be introducing SUNTAN (2016), my favorite film from Offscreen's Weird Greece program. Sun-drenched, darkly funny, and unsettling. A trip to a Greek island you'll never forget!

📷 March 26 > 09:30 PM > Cinema Nova, Brussels

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