Soundimageculture SIC

04/06/2026

✨Collective Session June 2026
8-12 June 2026
with Nicolas Garaux and Trương Minh Quý

Monday 8 & Tuesday 9 June 2026
9:30-18:30

Two collective feedback days dedicated to reflecting on SIC participants’ projects, sharing perspectives and supporting each filmmaker’s creative process.
In the presence of Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý.

📍GC Ten Weyngaert (Brussels)
Address : Rue des Alliés 54, 1190 Forest
Free admission
A limited number of external visitors may attend by reservation. To register, please email: [email protected]

📽️Masterclass: Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý
Wednesday 10 June 2026
10:00-17:00
📍GC Ten Weyngaert (Brussels)
Address : Rue des Alliés 54, 1190 Forest
To register, please email: [email protected]

📽️Screening: Hair, Paper, Water
by Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý
Wednesday 10 June 2026
19:10
📍CinéFlagey (Brussels)
Tickets: https://www.flagey.be/fr/agenda/hair-paper-water-4223

06/05/2026

🎞️Last week we had the pleasure of inviting Eva Giolo for a Case Study with SIC participants.

Artist and filmmaker Eva Giolo discussed her practice and shared her creative process presenting her films Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths (2025) and The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (2022).

🎞️Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths (2025)
In Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths the resonances of place, magic and myth unfold through play. Attendant to the landscape through a child’s-eye, the film streams into the specific, hidden, and vast geologies of the Dolomite mountains, through the trills and murmurs of Ladin, the minority Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the region. As the children narrate local folklore, this language and its oral traditions, passed from body to body, itself becomes corporeal and indivisible from the land. (Open City Documentary Film Festival)

🎞️The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (2022)
A film constructed based on a game of chance and a collection of encounters in workshops and homes in the city of Rome. Although the protagonists never appear together, they are inextricably bound by their actions — meaning is conveyed through movement and its associated sound, slowly forming a visual exploration of physicality. The Demands of Ordinary Devotion invites a reflection on the process of making, the prospect of motherhood, and uncertainties in creation, balance and composition.

About Eva Giolo
Eva Giolo is an audiovisual artist working in film, video, and installation. Her work places particular focus on the female experience, employing experimental and documentary strategies to explore themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics.
Her films, installations and other projects have been widely exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries internationally, including Sadie Coles HQ, Harlan Levey Project, WIELS centre for Contemporary Art, MAXXI–National Museum of 21st Century Art, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Palazzo Strozzi, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media City Film Festival, Vision du Réel, among others.

26/04/2026

🎞️Ana Vaz will be the guest of honour of our upcoming SIC collective session (27-30 April) at Bozar and Argos (Brussels)

FEEDBACK DAYS: 27 + 28 APRIL 2026
for SIC Participants
In the presence of filmmaker Ana Vaz
> Fully booked, no more reservations available.

CLOSE-UP: ANA VAZ (28—30 APRIL)

Tue 28 April, 19:00: Short films by Ana Vaz: an introduction (Bozar)
> Fully booked, no more reservations available.

Wed 29 April, 10:00-17:00: Workshop – For a Vagabond Cinema (Argos)
In the presence of filmmaker Ana Vaz
> Fully booked, no more reservations available.

Wed 29 April, 19:00: É Noite Na América (It is Night in America)  (Bozar)
> Fully booked, no more reservations available.

Thu 30 April, from 18:00: Bozar Nocturne – Experimental shorts on the theme of beauty and ugliness.
Tickets: https://www.bozar.be/en/calendar/bang-bang-andrea-tonacci

About Ana Vaz
Born in 1986 in Brasília, Vaz’s work explores the relationship between humans, their environment, and collective memory. Her films, blending the political, ecological, and poetic, delve into the buried ghosts of her hometown, a symbol of both promise and fracture. A graduate of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Le Fresnoy, she extends her work beyond cinema to include writing, installations, and pedagogy. Winner of the Kazuko Trust Award, she is currently developing Anhnanguera at the Villa Medici, a trans(e)historical fiction inspired by the colonization of Brazil’s Far West.

26/04/2026

✨ Screenings in the Netherlands of In This Together by Lisette Olsthoorn, as part of Labor Day celebrations. .olsthoorn

April 30 at 20:00 at Oase Rotterdam. Talk + screening. .filmclub

May 1st at 19:30 at Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam.

In This Together
The Netherlands, 2026, 59'

Synopsis
For the freelance drivers who seized the opportunities offered by the international company Uber, the prospects of independence and a good salary were irresistible. However, frustratingly, changes in Uber's pricing and revenue model made things increasingly difficult for them. An innovative documentary about freelance drivers.

"We're being attacked from two sides: by the customer and by Uber!" This desperate cry from an Amsterdam Uber driver perfectly captures the plight of his profession. In this compelling documentary essay, filmmaker Lisette Olsthoorn provides a detailed account of the exploitation of Uber drivers. What began as a promise of "unprecedentedly high profits" for freelance drivers ultimately became a nightmare due to problems with the app and market-driven fluctuations in the pricing and revenue model. She shows us archival footage of futile demonstrations and unsatisfying talk show interviews. This is more than a report; the film experiments with reenactments, conversations between the filmmaker, her subject, and the participating actors. Can we imagine fairer and more humane labor relations—and are they even realistic? Or is the current capitalist misery truly hopeless and unchangeable?

– Adrian Martin for IFFR

Credits
Directed by Lisette Olsthoorn
Camera: Aafke Beernink, Sjuul Joosen, Anna Theunissen, Lisette Olsthoorn
Editor: Kersti Grunditz Brennan, Lisette Olsthoorn
Sound design: Andreas Hildebrandt
Producer: Lisette Olsthoorn
Co-producer: Video Power
Sales / World rights holder: Video Power

A film developed in the framework of SIC

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1143816231

16/04/2026

🔥Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest by Viv Li is selected at !🎉

A film developed in the framework of SIC

International Premiere

Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
Germany, Netherlands | 2026 | 85 min

Synopsis
Viv, a thirty-something artist from Beijing, has recently become involved in the Berlin q***r scene. Straddling Germany and China, where her family wonders if their daughter has gone mad, the filmmaker tries to understand the environment in which she is living and the one from which she hails. She then constructs a hilarious comedy about her identity, at the intersection of worlds that appear diametrically opposed.

Saturday 18 April 2026 15:45
Grande Salle, Nyon
+ Q&A 🎤 with the director

Thursday 23 April 2026 11:15
Grande Salle, Nyon

Directed and written by Viv Li
Produced by Erik Winker, Martin Rolley,
Co-produced by .film Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, .goes.blonde
Cinematography: Viv Li,
Additional Cinematography: .v
Editor: .bf
Dramaturgy:
Development Editing: .gong
Sound Design and mix:
Sound recording: Yang Zhou, Filip Forberg, Joscha Eickel
PA: Beijing Venice NYC
Post-production coordinator: Leon Jendrejewski
Colorgrading: Felix Hüsken
Animation adriannaw_art
VFX:
Title and Graphic design:
Featuring works of
“When the body says Yes”
Also featuring my first two singles with
World Sales: .officiel ilfilodari
With support from .de
And
A film developed in the framework of SIC
With the help of .docs

15/04/2026

𝘿𝙀𝙎𝘿𝙀 𝙇𝘼 𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙉̃𝘼 𝙑𝙀𝙈𝙊𝙎 𝙇𝘼 𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙉̃𝘼 by Julián García Long will be screened in the Official Competition at the PUNTO DE VISTA Festival! ✨


Screening on Friday, April 24 at 7:00 PM
📍 at Auditorio Baluarte (Sala Cámara, Spain)

Spanish premiere.

Introduction and Q&A with Julián García Long (filmmaker) and Antonio Arenas (film programmer).

Set in the Argentinian Patagonia, its sensory approach fuses an ethnographic gaze with magical realism as it delves into the consequences of a wildfire in Lanín National Park, where the Mapuche people have resisted violence and institutional neglect for centuries.

A film by Julían García Long 
Image Julían García Long 
Sound Juan Manuel Yeri Racig 
Editing Ana Edwards, Josefina Llobet, Julían García Long  
Sound Editing Ingrid Simon 
Mixing Thomas Ferrando 
Color Grading Baptiste Evrard 
Soundtracks Joan Malandia 
A Production  Julie Freres, SoundImageCulture – SIC – Mary Jiménez 
Co-Production  Studio national des arts contemporains, .schoolofarts and Aye Aye Films 
Produced with the Support of 

A film developed in the framework of SoundImageCulture.

Tickets : https://entradaspuntodevista.nicdo.es/selection/event/date?productId=10229766070730

08/04/2026

🌹 VEUVES ! 🌹

Projection en présence de la réalisatrice
📌 Lundi 13 avril 2026 - 18h45 - La Scam (Paris)

Après une belle séance à La Tricoterie, Sonia Pastecchia sera à Paris ce mois-ci pour présenter "Veuves !" pour la première fois en France. Une belle occasion de découvrir ce documentaire salué par une mention spéciale au Festival Cinemamed.

La réservation en ligne est indispensable et peut se faire sur le site de La Scam 👉 https://www.lascam.fr/actualites-ressources/projection-veuves-de-sonia-pastecchia-le-13-avril-2026/

Soundimageculture SIC Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel CBA RTBF jeunes cinéastes

25/03/2026

✨ We are delighted to share the poster for Fracture by which will be in competition in the Burning Lights section 🔥 at the 57th edition of Visions du Réel 🎬🇨🇭 (April 17–26, 2026, Nyon).

19 April at 20:15 + Q&A 🎤 with the director
21 April at 16:15

Keren is a performer, filmmaker, activist. At 20, she left Israel to grow as an artist and person. After eight years in Europe, she feels the need to return to the contradictions she left behind. She joins the rallies against Netanyahu, volunteers with Palestinian families, finds love, keeps filming. The October 7 attack occurs. The war and genocide begin. The fracture keeps deepening.

Production :
CVB. By & Joël Curtz
Co-production : CBA, GSARA, BUDAasbl
With the support of Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel et de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
With the support of

A film developed in the framework of SIC.

🎨 Poster

More info:
https://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/film/2026/fracture/

16/02/2026

14/02/2026

Fantasy and Non-Fiction 🔥🎞️

Masterclass by Courtney Stephens
Wednesday 25 February 2026
10:00—17:00
(Brussels)

How can non-fiction films account for the increasingly fantastical elements of present reality? How are genre conventions at play in, for example, the news we receive and the social media we ingest?

In a media landscape of slippery truths and authors, how can we go beyond the informational / educational model of documentary film, and enter into the collective dreamlife of the present? Filmmaker Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector, Invention, John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office) will share clips from her own and other films to think collectively about the instability of present visual and political reality, and how it might generate adaptive cinematic techniques, inviting other modes of displacement.

Experience is our guide, more than facts. Stephens will share footage and reflections from a work in progress, which deals with American fairy tales.

Practical information and tickets

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026
Times: 10:00—17:00
Venue: Bozar (rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Brussels)

Tickets: €20 at the door (limited availability, booking is required at [email protected])

More info: https://soundimageculture.org/fantasy-and-non-fiction/