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

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...

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!

...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

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

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

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

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

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

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. #movies #movienight #filmfest #cinema

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

"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...

"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 #movies #filmfestival #bioscoop #movienight #amwatching

I think about at least one of these films usually once every few weeks. Absolutely brilliant & well worth checking out if you're able.

Don't miss tonight's folk horror double-bill at Cinematek in Brussels! Extraordinary socio-surreal portrait of rural England in REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE (1975) at 19h followed by a FREE screening of Alan Clarke's amazing PENDA'S FEN (1974) at 20h30. www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...

this, alongside THE BRUTALIST, was my favourite of the films I saw last year

Bong Joon Ho just used his Q&A before John Carpenter’s The Thing at the @AcademyMuseum to ask him to score his next next film — a horror flick — and Carpenter said yes! Magical evening at the movies!

Some of the decor at Cinema Nova in Brussels during @offscreenff.bsky.social Could it be The Lair of the White Worm?

Tonight, Monday 24 March, I'm talking to Miguel Llansó about his semi-Afro-futurist, wholly bonkers films CRUMBS (2915) & JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (2019), showing at Cinema RITCS in Brussels. One of low-budget indie cinema's most visionary, original, exhilarating voices.

Yesterday had a whale of a time talking to the mighty @paulduane.bsky.social in a Q&A about his uniquely deranged ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH at @offscreenff.bsky.social in Brussels, part of our Haunted Isles Folk Horror & Wyrd retrospective. Good, non-rambling questions from the audience this time.

Tonight! Miguel Llansó shows Marvel how it's done, multiverse and superhero-wise. Also contains kung-fu! A visionary and totally bonkers delight.

An epic quest through astonishing landscapes, starring the extraordinary Daniel Tadesse. Another bonkers delight from Miguel Llansó; I'll be talking to him afterwards to see if I can work out where he gets his mad ideas from.

We're showing the terrifying A DESERT at Cinema Nova in Brussels, 19h on Friday 28 March.

Oscar-winning No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say.

Will @theacademyusa.bsky.social use its worldwide prominence to speak up for an Oscar-winning director? Hamdan Ballal was attacked and seriously injured—and the IDF arrested HIM while he was in the ambulance. No charges, no sign of him since. Where are you, AMPAS? chng.it/dzMJYfSbqM

"Combining rites of passage with state of the nation," Alan Clarke’s PENDA’S FEN (1974) is "without precedent for the way that it undermines and queers its own idyll of twentieth-century England". 8.30pm at @cinematek.bsky.social for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2016/06/05/c...

"several slices of satisfyingly weird goodness": Miguel Llansó's retrofuturist virtual-reality postmodern pizza JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (2019), screens 9pm tonight at Brussels' Cinema RITCS for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2020/05/07/j...

"an odd Afrofuturist odyssey that rebuilds the family of tomorrow from the discarded crumbs of today": Miguel Llansó's astonishing post-apocalyptic CRUMBS (2015) screens 7pm tonight at Brussels' Cinema RITCS for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2015/07/26/e...

This is part of Offscreen Film Festival in Brussels, by the way. I always get in such a tangle with links, cut & paste and adding pics on iPhone, where I feel less in control every day... @offscreenff.bsky.social

Miguel Llansó is at Cinema RITCS tonight to personally present his wild duo of dystopian sci-fi retro-futurism movies: ⚡ CRUMBS (2015) – 7 PM ⚡ JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY (2019) – 9 PM Two movies for the price of one! #Brussels #filmfestival #filmmaking #masterclass #offscreenff

Very much earned its place on the UK's Video Nasty list of the 1980s. But as @paulduane.bsky.social wrote on Letterboxd, "The farting goatherd is one of the greatest characters in all cinema."

Today's screenings of The Shout, The Woman in Black and Picha, Seul et contre tous are canceled! New screenings will be organized. If you already have a ticket, you may also come to today's screenings at Nova for free. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

(f)estival oddity: Miguel Llansó's hallucinatory huff/sci-fi singularity INFINITE SUMMER (2024) "follows a teen girl's first steps into a transhumanist menagerie of young adulthood". Screens 9.30pm tonight at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2024/07/28/i...

Folk (song) horror: @paulduane.bsky.social's funny, freaky, fucked-up ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH (2023) "plays out present cover versions of past love, betrayal and accursed vengeance". 7pm at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social, with director's Q&A projectedfigures.com/2023/10/13/a...

Grave(s) encounters: both bizarre love triangle and asylum rant, Jerzy Skolimowski's THE SHOUT (1978) "entirely dislocates our sense of where – and how – the dynamic of its erotic drama is unravelling." Screens 5pm today at CINEMATEK for @offscreenff.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2020/04/28/b...

Tonight, I'll be introducing one of the wildest films you'll see this year at Offscreen: Nico Mastorakis' ISLAND OF DEATH (1976). Yes, it's shocking—but it's also beautifully shot and bursting with creative madness. 📽 March 22 > 9:30 PM > Cinema Nova, Brussels

“We do everything vice versa”: Nico Mastorakis' shocker ISLAND OF DEATH (1976) is a video nasty that, ironically, skewers "the topsy-turvy hypocrisy of our censorious guardians". Screens 9.30pm at Brussels' Nova Cinema for @offscreenff.bsky.social. Capsule: projectedfigures.com/2022/05/14/t...

Sunday 23 March 17h I'm presenting Jerzy Skolimowski's THE SHOUT at Brussels Cinematek, helped by @paulduane.bsky.social, whose own film ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH is showing the same day, 19h at Cinema Nova, presented by us & followed by a Q&A! Part of @offscreenff.bsky.social's "Haunted Isles" module.