Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Yesterday was the last day of this year's Offscreen Film Festival. Farewell - untiul next year! www.instagram.com/stories/offs... 031
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Our 19th edition finishes today with one final slice of Spanish genre perversity: Bigas Luna's CANICHE (1979), 16h30 at Cinematek (zoophilia alert!); & our closing film, 18h30 at Cinema Nova: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke's A USEFUL GHOST: delightful supernatural whimsy - with a devastating payoff. 032
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Also tonight at Offscreen: CINEMA BIS BELGE presents Luc Monheim's newly restored lost crusader epic, DEUS LO VOLT (1978) 19h00 at Cinematek. Followed at 21h00 by the final film in our John Woo tribute: the barking mad FACE/OFF (1997), Cage vs Travolta in the Battle of the (magnificent) Hams. 011
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Today at Offscreen: SUBURBAN FURY, Robinson Devor's documentary about the housewife who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford, 17h00 at Cinema Nova; followed by two films in the Only in America? Delusions of Democracy module: WINTER KILLS (1979) at 19h00 & NETWORK (1976) at 21h30, both at Nova. 110
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Spanish genre blu-ray giveaway! See Offscreen's Instagram account! 010
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Today at Offscreen: BARRIO TRISTE, a Dante-esque voyage to the gritty heart of a Medellín favela, 19h at Nova; THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976), 21h30 at Nova; lost Spanish masterpiece POACHERS (1975), 19h at Cinematek; FACES (1978), erotic, possibly supernatural Lanzarote mystery, 21h at Cinematek. 011
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Also today at Offscreen: Alexander Voulgaris's THEY COME OUT OF MARGO, 19h30 Cinema Aventure, Brussels. Reclusive pop singer confronts demons from her past at her 40th birthday party in this Greek horror-musical that uses fast-cut freeze-frames & semi-experimental soundtrack to heartwarming effect! 000
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026John Woo goes Hollywood with HARD TARGET (1993) starring famous Belgian Jean-Claude Van Damme + hair extensions. Excuse for the Belgian accent? He's Cajun! Highlights: motorbike stunt! Lance Henriksen's coat is on fire! JCVD wrestles a rattlesnake! Cinematek, 21h30 www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen... 121
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Check out Offscreen's brilliant Instagram account - more exciting than here! Highlights of the festival plus treats to come! www.instagram.com/stories/offs... 000
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Today at Offscreen: a Harry Kümel double-bill at Cinema RITCS in Brussels! Kümel will be present in person to introduce THE COMING OF JOACHIM STILLER (1976) at 18h30 followed by Euro-vampire cult classic DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS at 22h00. 231
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Delightful Instagram reel from Ben Wheatley about his trip to Offscreen in Brussels with producer Andy Starke for Friday night's screening of BULK at Nova - "Super cool church of cinema" www.instagram.com/p/DWJmjjtiIUP/ 161
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Ben Wheatley at Offscreen! www.instagram.com/p/DWJNmHDDfn9/ 052
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Today at Offscreen: Robert Altman's NASHVILLE (1975), 14h at Nova; Harmony Korine's BABY INVASION (2024), 17h at Nova; Yūta Shimotsu's NEW GROUP, 19h at Nova; Ivan Zulueta's cult classic/arthouse horror ARREBATO (1979), 21h30 at Nova. Meanwhile, 19h at Cinematek: John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990) 020
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Also on the Offscreen agenda today: Secondhand Film Fair! 13h to 19h in the bar at Cinema Nova; and two Spanish genre gems at Cinematek: Pedro Olea's THE HOUSE WITHOUT FRONTIERS (1972) starring Geraldine Chaplin, at 17h00, followed by Jorge Grau's THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE (1974) at 21h30 010
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Today at Offscreen: Symposium on Cult Film (what does the word "cult" even mean now etc?) 13h at Nova; Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR 17h at Nova; from Norway - Patrik Syversen presents his film DAWNING (think Ingmar Bergman meets New French Extremity) 19h at Nova; John Woo's HARD BOILED 21h30 at Nova. 141
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Meanwhile our Spanish genre retrospective continues at Cinematek 7pm with rare doc CADA VER ES..., a day in the life of an embalmer (warning: contains REAL cadavers) then Eloy de la Iglesia's sexy giallo-esque THE GLASS CEILING at 9pm (contains Patty Shepard!) www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen... 041
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Today at Offscreen: Ben Wheatley & producer Andrew Starke present BULK, film-making with a delirious DIY aesthetic, 9pm at Nova. At 9.30pm Peter Watkins' terrifying faux-doc PUNISHMENT PARK (1971) is the centrepiece of AN AMERICAN NIGHT(MARE) programme of clips & trailers. www.offscreen.be/en 141
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Today at Offscreen: short films at Nova! + John Woo (THE KILLER!) continues at Cinematek + Spanish genre double THE KILLER OF DOLLS & MACUMBA SEXUAL at Aventure! + our 1970s US mini-module gets going with Robert Aldrich's TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING at Nova! www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen... 011
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Today at Offscreen: A CANDLE FOR THE DEVIL with JUDY GEESON! searching for her sister in an Andalusian village; by Eugenio Martín of HORROR EXPRESS fame, 19h30, Aventure. Then at 21h30, Aventure again: SATAN'S BLOOD, featuring the stupidest couple on earth & possibly the festival's most WTF ending. 000
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Today at Offscreen: the boys are back - including the great Ti Lung AND Chow Yun-fat, who died in the first film, but why should we let a little thing like that worry us? - for A BETTER TOMORROW II at Cinematek, 19h at Cinematek in Brussels. 120
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Yesterday at Offscreen: our Heroic Bloodshed John Woo tribute got underway at Cinematek with A BETTER TOMORROW, the film that made a star out of Chow Yun-fat! And the festival extends its tentacles into Cinema Aventure with León Klimovsky's THE WEREWOLF VS THE VAMPIRE WOMAN and I HATE MY BODY. 031
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? is showing 19h00, Cinema RITCS in Brussels. Followed by the absolutely bonkers POPPERS (1984) - honestly, no narrative logic AT ALL, just wall-to-wall WTF. Both films to be introduced by Alberto Sedano, director of the doc EXORCISMO: THE TRANSGRESSIVE LEGACY OF CLASIFICADA "S". 000
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Today at Offscreen! www.instagram.com/stories/offs... 142
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Cineketje time this afternoon in the Nova bar at Offscreen Film Festival! 030
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Last but not least, Gábor Holtai's FEELS LIKE HOME (2025), a Hungarian Lanthimos-esque film that initially (abduction & imprisonment) feels like a torture porn set-up. But no! It's much more fun (and funnier, and thought-provoking) than that. Best seen without knowing too much. 21h30 at Cinema Nova! 022
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026It's corrupt oligarchs fighting for their lives against plebeians (if only!) blinded by an A-Bomb in Léon Klimovsky's post-apocalyptic THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE DARK, 19h00 at Cinema Nova. More Spanish post-apocalypse at Cinematek, 21h00: CREATION OF THE DAMNED, starring the fabulous Patty Shepard! 000
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 15/03/202617h00 at Cinema Nova: BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD, a bonkers documentary about 2 reclusive brothers who lives on a farm on the Czech-German border. Meanwhile, 17h00 at Cinematek, one of Eloy de la Iglesia's most transgressive films: THE PRIEST. 011
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026First, Offscreen captures them young (age 4 and upwards) as Cinema Nova gets overrun by small children in a CINEKETJE workshop, subject - wizards & magic, enough to strike dread into the hearts of hypocritical American evangelists. Followed by our matinee: THE WIZ! 021
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Day 5 at Offscreen! Once again I am ripping off screenshots from the festival's Instagram account, which is much more exciting than here. (I do what I can) www.instagram.com/stories/offs... 021
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 14/03/2026More from Offscreen's Instagram account, which is run by tech-savvy young people (ie not me). Day Four of Offscreen at Cinema Nova and Cinematek in Brussels! www.instagram.com/stories/offs... 000
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Day Four at Offscreen! Once again I am shamelessly pillaging from Offscreen's ace instagram account, which is run by young people who can do technology & make pictures move & stuff. www.instagram.com/stories/offs... 052
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Last night at Cinema Nova in Brussels: The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, The Cannibal Man and Dimorfo on the marquee. I helped put those letters up! but we had to leave out the first "The" to squeeze it all in. 010
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Another part of the decor at Cinema Nova in Brussels. Our matinee at 2.30pm, Sunday 15 March: THE WIZ (1978). This is where 19-year old Michael Jackson, who played Scarecrow, met Quincy Jones, music arranger & supervisor on the film; the result would be Off the Wall. 030
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026The walls of the foyer at Cinema Nova in Brussels. We are screening ALL these films at the festival! 0102
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026More choice cuts from Offscreen's Instagram account! Check out what's showing at the festival today! 012
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Honestly, Offscreen's Instagram is much hipper & livelier than this Bsky one (I wouldn't even know where to START, even if I had the time) so I'm just screenshotting some of it & advising you to surrey on over to Insta to see for yourself (it has REELS & everything) 001
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Check out this Q-code to see the mini-trailer for mad Spanish exploitation pics at Offscreen Film Festival at Aventure cinema in Brussels - I'll be introducing some of these! (I don't know how this works, don't even know if it does work, may take you to Instagram idk) 001
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Alex showing off the festival programme on the accreditation desk on the opening night of Offscreen Film Festival! 043
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Offscreen Film Festival began last night with a screening of EGGHEAD REPUBLIC! Highlights on our Instagram! www.instagram.com/stories/high... 021
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Special screenings (matinee, symposium, tributes, Cinema Bis Belge, Offscreen On Tour etc) now added to Offscreen Film Festival website. www.offscreen.be/en 000
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 24/02/2026The 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 011
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 21/02/2026OFFSCREEN 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! 0116
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Premieres 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... 003
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 18/02/2026...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. 121
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 18/02/2026EXORCISING 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... 152
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Offscreen Film festival, 11-29 March 2026, in Brussels. Full programme now online: www.offscreen.be 1119
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Preview 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 163
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Don'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... 0112
Offscreen Film Festival @offscreenff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Miguel 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 000