Every last Friday of the month, we collaborate with the Cinematek's B-to-Z rendez-vous in Brussels, a moment in the history of alternative cinema that shouldn't be missed. Unearthed from the dark recesses of the archive: hilarious B-movies, blood-chilling thrillers, Gialli, slashers and other exploitation cinema gems… Take advantage of the 2-for-1: two films with a common theme for the price of a single ticket.
vrijdag 24 januari 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
That barking dogs don’t bite is disproved by these two shocking social satires. Told from the perspective of the titular character via an emotionless voice-over, _Baxter_ follows the bizarre journey of a murderous bull terrier searching for the perfect...
vrijdag 28 februari 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
This double feature proves that man’s best friend isn’t always the loyal and cuddly companion they’re assumed to be.In _Man’s Best Friend_, a journalist breaks into a research facility where various experiments are being conducted on animals. She rescues...
vrijdag 28 maart 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
Director, screenwriter, producer—Boris Szulzinger was a jack-of-all-trades, but he left his mark primarily on genre cinema, which remains underrepresented in our country. He was one of the first students at the Brussels film school INSAS, interned with Jean-Pierre...
vrijdag 25 april 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
The whodunit genre focuses on identifying the culprit among the various characters in a plot. This playful structure was not Hitchcock’s favorite, as he believed it killed the suspense, but it has proven its worth across different genres, such as the giallo and the...
vrijdag 30 mei 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
Beware, you are about to enter the wasteland of cinema—tonight is more about the letter Z than B... Post-nuke, or post-apocalyptic, films depict the fate of humanity's last survivors after a (usually nuclear) catastrophe, whether they roam in vehicles with two, four,...
vrijdag 27 juni 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
The retrospective _The Haunted Isles: Folk Horror and the Wyrd in the UK and Ireland_ at the Offscreen Film Festival in March is getting an epilogue with June’s B to Z program, which brings back two films that couldn’t be...
vrijdag 25 juli 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
Vampyros Lesbos and De Sade 70 are two milestones in the erotic oeuvre of the prolific Spanish director Jess Franco: sapphic vampires and the Marquis de Sade are sublimated through his muse, Miranda Soledad. Vampyros Lesbos is undoubtedly one of his most visually...
vrijdag 29 augustus 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
"King of the B-movie" was an honorary title that he was only too happy to endorse and commercialize. In the 1950s, Corman churned out one exploitation picture after another for American International Pictures—if possible, in just two days and one night. But alongside...
vrijdag 26 september 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
In 1966, Sergio Corbucci pushed violence to its extreme in _Django_, one of the gems of the Italian western. The film’s dazzling success catapulted Franco Nero to stardom and brought Corbucci into the pantheon of the great...
vrijdag 26 december 2025 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
Celluloid superheroes come in all shapes and sizes: from the cinema serials of the 1930s and 1940s based on the eponymous American comics ( _Flash Gordon_, _Batman_…) to the big-budget...
vrijdag 30 januari 2026 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
The screening of Lucio Fulci’s _The New York Ripper_ in 2006 was one of the liveliest showings at the former Film Museum, today known as CINEMATEK. The masterful and somewhat vulgar staging, along with the extreme...
vrijdag 27 februari 2026 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
The B-to-Z programs have unearthed a few gems from the legendary Italian _giallo_ genre, launched by Mario Bava in the 1960s with _The Girl Who Knew Too Much_ and ...
vrijdag 27 maart 2026 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
_Tombs of the Blind Dead_ is the first in a series of four and excels in atmosphere — featuring blind knights galloping in slow motion on horseback — along with several particularly gruesome sequences set to a soundtrack of...
vrijdag 24 april 2026 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
With this B-Z screening, we’re serving up a nostalgic sci-fi & monster double bill of impressive scale. First, we journey into the deepest reaches of the cosmos in _Galaxy of Terror_, a cheap but entertaining rip-off of...
vrijdag 29 mei 2026 · 19:00
Cinema Nova
In the early 1970s, things began to change with the rise of the blaxploitation genre—the Black cousin of exploitation cinema—which, for a brief period, made waves in the American grindhouse circuit and occasionally even broke into mainstream cinema with films...
