Offscreen Film Festival 2018 | Offscreen
The Offscreenings program presents a fine selection of special, new and unreleased films, giving a platform to movies at the cutting edge of contemporary cinema. These films are noted for their artistic originality, unique vision and inventive approach to the...
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Italy was at the forefront of such popular movie genres as peplums, spaghetti westerns, thrillers, police action, and horror. Many directors (Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci), cinematographers (Vittorio Storaro), and composers (Bruno Nicolai,...
Enzo G. Castellari (° 1938) made his mark on cinema history with a series of genre films in which he played with the rules of Italian exploitation and B-movies. He distinguished himself with a rebellious editing style and frequent use of slow motion in action scenes (...
Sergio Martino (°1938) ranks with Mario Bava and Dario Argento as one of the undisputed leading directors of giallo, a quintessentially Italian thriller subgenre characterised by brutal murders, convoluted plotting, a dash of eroticism, highly stylized camera...
Luc Merenda (°1943), a French actor with Italian roots, is one of the best known faces of the poliziotteschi genre. His several collaborations with Sergio Martino include “Torso” and “The Violent Professionals”. He also played the lead in many other films, such as...
Belgium's most subversive filmmaker, Thierry Zéno, passed away on June 7, 2017, due to a lingering illness. This multidisciplinary artist is foremost the director of the unsettling, controversial feature film “Vase de noces” (1974). In 1976, a new documentary causes...
No supernatural creature has been portrayed as frequently in cinema history as the vampire. Bram Stoker's Dracula, everyone's favourite bloodsucker, has alone racked up nearly 200 different movie appearances. Even today, the vampire continues to fascinate, guaranteeing...
Ralph Bakshi (°1938) ranks up there with such masters of animation as Walt Disney and Tex Avery. He pioneered adult-themed animation interwoven with political commentary and satire, stirring up controversy with his feature debut, the X-rated animated adaptation of “...
These short silent films for children have one theme in common: being different. How can you fit in this world if you feel as though you don't belong? How to overcome differences? Various characters, such as a schoolgirl, a giant, a mouse, a square, and a cupcake, show...
On October 5th, 2017, our dear friend and colleague Wim Castermans passed away. His death was a shock for his partner Vanessa and friends but also for the Offscreen Film Festival.Wim first started working for Offscreen in 2010 and quickly evolved into a fully- fledged...
For the annual Shortscreen program, Offscreen and website Kortfilm.be present a selection of recent Belgian short films that fit the Offscreen criteria: original, unusual, bizarre, and surprising. The films will be introduced by the filmmakers!
A selection of several films can be watched at different locations in our program "Offscreen - on tour"!
On Saturday, March 17th, we will organize our first Micro Cinema Fair. The volunteers of Nova, as well as the Offscreen team, will take their second-hand movie attributes (DVDs, posters, books, gadgets, etc.) out of the attic and sell them at low prices. From 1 pm to 7...
Forget Ash's possessed hand in “Evil Dead II” or Thing T. Thing, the helpful hand from “The Addams Family”. The hands stealing the show in this B to Z are another breed of five-fingered beast entirely. “Demonoid” AKA “Macabra” starts off in a small town in Mexico,...
