Offscreen Film Festival 2023 | Offscreen
The Offscreenings programme provides a platform for exceptional new and unreleased films at the cutting edge of contemporary cinema, all of them noteworthy for their artistic originality, unique vision and inventive approach to the medium and...
The robot has always occupied a special place in cinema history, especially in the science fiction genre. The term, derived from the Czech word for "work", was coined by playwright Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R., first staged in 1921, and used to denote...
Brigitte Lahaie is a living legend. She is not just an icon of the golden age of X-rated French cinema, but also the queen of Cinéma Bis, a French term for Eurocult thrillers, horror, comedies and other exploitation films on the margins of the mainstream...
Inferno Rosso - Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess (2021), a documentary by Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin, crowns our tribute to an unsung master of Italian genre and exploitation, Aristide Massaccesi (1936 - 1999), better known as Joe D'Amato....
For their annual Shortscreen programme, Offscreen and website Kortfilm.be present a selection of recent short films that meet the Offscreen criteria: original, uncommon, bizarre, and surprising.
A focus on Belgian cult and exploitation cinema: “Cinema Bis” is a general term that refers to cheaply produced films – from B to Z – from the Golden Age of the 60's and 70's in popular genres like horror, adventure or erotica. Some Belgians made a name for...
After graduating, American filmmaker E. Elias Merhige (°1964, Brooklyn) started working in the New York theatre scene. In 1989 he made his feature film debut with Begotten which established him as a visionary artist concerned with myth, ritual and...
In 1989, filmmaker E. Elias Merhige made Begotten, a sui generis epic revered by connoisseurs of both avant-garde and genre cinema. Described by Susan Sontag as “one of the ten most important films of modern times”, it plunges...
Movie lovers will be able to add to their collections on Saturday 11 March at Offscreen's second-hand film fair. Here you will find posters, Blu-rays, DVDs, VHS cassettes, books and lots of other film paraphernalia, all at very low prices. The fair will take place from...
