A new inspiring season on ARTS.FILM

In the early hours of this winter program, underground movements, counter-cultures and all emerging art forms are on the agenda, with the first two episodes of 3h44, a program created by independent media Spark. Also on the menu, an immersion into the worlds of Cézanne, Matisse, Rothko and several other emblematic figures depicted in Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood or Mary Cassatt: Painting The Modern Woman.

The beginning of the year will also see the exploration of great mysteries such as Modigliani and His Secrets, the enigmatic story of the thirty-two paintings by Johannes Vermeer in La peau des anges n’est pas si douce, and the secrets of Dior’s first female artistic director, Maria Grazia Chiuri.

The winter program will also make room for collective and personal memory, with films such as Der Untermensch, just 80 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Empire of My Melodious Mind, an epic journey into the memories that shape the identity of an Asian-American.

This first 2025 season will also highlight Walloon and Brussels cinema, in partnership with the Délégation générale Wallonie-Bruxelles au Québec/​Canada and Wallonie-Bruxelles International. Among the highlights are I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman, in which the director gives an apparent master class before her tragic death, Miléna Trivier’s fantasized flowers (Algorithms of Beauty) and the perseverance of a dancer trying to master a Maurice Béjart choreography (Les quatre mille coups, by Frédéric Liver).

Prison of the Sun, starring dancer Axelle Munezero, will be one of the films highlighting Black History Month in February, alongside Black Indians, a film about a little-known minority in the U.S., as well as the documentary about the brilliant David Hammons (The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons) and many others.

Later, a collection on artists in love for Valentine’s Day: from the romance between Joan Mitchell and Jean Paul Riopelle to Ernest Hemingway​’s tumultuous love life and some of Vasily Kandinsky​’s stories. Other films include Lettre d’amour à Léopold L. Foulem by director Renée Blanchar and Playback, a tragic declaration of love and friendship.

The month of February will end on the theme of free and indomitable beings. On the menu: a new wave filmmaker (Chabrol l’anticonformisme), a legendary actress (Kim Novak, Hollywood’s rebel soul), an indomitable painter (Tintoretto — The Man Who Killed Painting), and women photographers in Iran (Focus Iran — L’audace au premier plan).

Finally, March and the exciting prospect of the 43^rd edition of the International Festival of Films on Art! To celebrate the imminence of this 40-year-old event, art in all its plurality will once again be in the spotlight: from Vincent Van Gogh​’s paintings to Barbara Hannigan​’s music, from Le Corbusier​’s architecture to Umberto Eco​’s literature.