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Tóc, Giấy và Nước…, Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý,

Stream over 100 significant Belgian titles, collections, and short film programs worldwide. Discover aesthetically and socially compelling works that contribute to film history. Explore the online catalogue or subscribe now for a year of cinema!

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La trilogie de la cabane
Eric Pauwels,

With the start of Mois du Doc, the annual event that promotes Belgian documentaries in French language, Avila presents Eric Pauwels’ “La trilogie de la cabane” (“The Cabin Trilogy”): three highly original, lovingly and playfully crafted films, which span over fifteen years of the Belgian filmmaker’s work. Blending documentary and fiction, these films, like the blue garden cabin that gives the trilogy its title, form an intimate oeuvre as well as a fertile space of memory and imagination.

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Explore Avila’s online film collection, accessible to members of public libraries in Flanders and Brussels.

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Avila brings Belgian films to audiences and organises special screenings across the country and beyond. Check the agenda or get in touch if you are interested in hosting a screening.

Upcoming Screenings ↓
December

December is the perfect time to experience films on the big screen. This month’s agenda brings together stories of family, migration, resilience and the natural world – from a young drummer in French Guiana to Palestinian theatre-makers in Beirut, from voices of displacement to unexpected storytellers like bees or even a kidney stone revealing our bond with nature. Explore all December screenings and find the perfect film to close out 2025.

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Every season.
A unique Belgian film.
On a big screen near you.

Discover this autumn: Le chantier des gosses by Jean Harlez.

2025 PROGRAMME

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→ Kouté Vwa
CinéMarche, Marche-en-Famenne
+ In the presence of Maxime Jean-Baptiste
→ Kouté Vwa
Cinema Galeries | Recognition, Brussels
+ Q&A with film curator Lyse Ishimwe and Maxime Jean-Baptiste
→ Kouté Vwa
KASKcinema, Ghent
+ Q&A with Maxime Jean-Baptiste
→ Kouté Vwa
ISELP, Brussels
+ Q&A with Maxime Jean-Baptiste
→ Globes
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

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The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

Cinema RITCS | Dwaalzin - Movie Matters, Brussels
+ Q&A with Quinten Wyns and Mathijs Poppe
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

GC Nohva | United Screens for Palestine, Neder-Over-Heembeek
+ Q&A with Mathijs Poppe
→ The Jacket
The Jacket (Mathijs Poppe, 2024)

Jamal Hindawi, Palestinian, lives with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, where he makes political theatre. When he starts a journey to search for an important lost theatre prop, he witnesses how the successive political and economic crises have disrupted an entire region and its people.

→ Branden
→ Apple Cider Vinegar
Natuurpunt Jabbeke, Jabbeke
+ Q&A with Sofie Benoot
→ Daens
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Stijn Coninx,

Father Daens returns to Aalst, where workers suffer from poverty, child labor, and exploitation in the textile industry. Driven by his sense of justice, he takes their side, even if it means confronting the church and the upper class. A detailed historical drama about the fight for justice.

CC Belgica, Dendermonde
+ Private school screening
→ Le chantier des gosses
In cinemas
→ Tóc, Giấy và Nước…
Bozar, Brussels
+ Q&A with Trương Minh Quý & Nicolas Graux
In cinemas
→ Tóc, Giấy và Nước…
Bozar, Brussels
+ Q&A with Trương Minh Quý & Nicolas Graux

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Apple Cider Vinegar (Sofie Benoot, 2024)

A fictitious nature documentary narrator takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian stone masons, passionate British geologists and people living on the lava fields of Fogo.​ A hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions.

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Letters filled with everyday concerns and maternal advice contrast with slow-moving images of a distant Manhattan in the 1970s. A personal account and a time capsule of a city in transformation.

Programme
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Short films that emerged from the eyes and hands of the movement La Voix des Sans-Papiers and two filmmakers. Their work reflects an ongoing struggle, primarily focused on staying aligned together.

Collection
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Three highly original, lovingly and playfully crafted films spanning over fifteen years. Blending documentary and fiction, these films, like the blue garden cabin that gives the trilogy its title, form an intimate oeuvre as well as a fertile space of memory and imagination.

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Patient observations unfold into a carefully constructed portrait of the modest residential Hotel Monterey in Manhattan. The camera traces an upward path through the building, capturing its corridors, elevators, rooms, and inhabitants.

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À chacun son cinéma
Jean-Noël Gobron,
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Bamssi (Mourad Ben Amor)
Bamssi
Mourad Ben Amor,
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Branden (Lisette Ma Neza, 2024)
Branden
Lisette Ma Neza,
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Forbidden Pilgrimage (Ellen Vermeulen, 2024)
Une femme qui part
Ellen Vermeulen,