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SIC is a 1 year program that accompanies filmmakers and artists in the development of their film project.

SIC est un programme sur 1 année qui accompagne des cinéastes et des artistes dans le développement de leur projet de film.

15/08/2026

🔥Notes From Brook House by Alex Nevill is selected for Mimesis Documentary Festival, taking place in person and online in Boulder, Colorado, US, August 11–16.
Alex Nevill

Program: Terminus
Wednesday 12 August
Boedecker Cinema

Far from loved ones, people push external borders and stretch internal boundaries seeking safe havens – willingly or warily. Meanwhile, fantasies of return and tensions between here and there linger. Traversing the perpetual crossroads of nightmares and daydreams, home becomes a space of knowing and not knowing.

Notes From Brook House
UK, 2025, 28'

Synopsis
Airports, detention centres, sea containers. Slow, roaming shots linger on places of passage and confinement, where movement is measured and controlled. Fragments of stories, words passed from one person to another. Encounters along the way reveal different ways of seeing, different ways of understanding. Voices emerge, sharing stories from those held inside Brook House, a large immigration centre on London’s outskirts. Through shifting perspectives, the film examines migration, control, and the space between perception and reality.

Director: Alex Nevill
Producer: Alex Nevill, Keith Haitkin
Director of Photography: Alex Nevill
Sound: Rob Walker

A film developed in the framework of SIC - SoundImageCulture.

11/07/2026

[𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 💰-🎥 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞]
Avis aux documentaristes ! Orange Belgium, screen.brussels et LaScam.Be s’associent pour encourager les cinéastes à bouger les lignes et à imaginer et construire le monde de demain. Six bourses au concept de 5.000 € sont ainsi proposées à des auteurs et autrices ambitionnant de s’inscrire dans une philosophie du changement, de la construction du monde de demain, que les enjeux soient écologiques, démocratiques, sociaux…

📆 Soumettez votre candidature d’ici au 1er octobre 2026 !
👉 En savoir plus et postuler : https://www.scam.be/actualites-ressources/enjeux-de-demain-2026-bourse-au-concept-de-film-documentaire/

11/07/2026

[𝐏𝐞́𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 📣 - 💶 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧]
LaScam.Be, la SACD.be, avec les organisations syndicales et les autres fédérations représentatives de travailleur·euses des arts demandent aux partis de la coalition Arizona, notamment aux Les Engagés - Mouvement participatif et au MR - Mouvement Réformateur, de garantir la préservation des droits acquis de leurs dizaine de milliers de membres et de leur permettre de bénéficier d’une pension décente à l’issue de leur carrière artistique et culturelle.

❗ Le texte du projet de loi portant l’introduction d’un pourcentage de limitation dans le régime de pension des travailleur·euses salarié·es doit pour cela être modifié avant son passage en troisième lecture la semaine prochaine.

✍️ Signer la pétition ici : https://c.org/ZQsbPkQcG4

27/06/2026

🔥Notes From Brook House by Alex Nevill
is selected at Migration Matters Festival, Sheffield, 19-27 June, 2026 !

Notes From Brook House
UK, 2025, 28'

Synopsis
Airports, detention centres, sea containers. Slow, roaming shots linger on places of passage and confinement, where movement is measured and controlled. Fragments of stories, words passed from one person to another. Encounters along the way reveal different ways of seeing, different ways of understanding. Voices emerge, sharing stories from those held inside Brook House, a large immigration centre on London’s outskirts. Through shifting perspectives, the film examines migration, control, and the space between perception and reality.

Director: Alex Nevill
Producer: Alex Nevill, Keith Haitkin
Director of Photography: Alex Nevill
Sound: Rob Walker

A film developed in the framework of SIC - SoundImageCulture.

26/06/2026

🏆 💀 Play Dead! by Matthew Lancit won two awards at , Madrid, Spain!

The film won the Best Cinematography Award (Feature Film) at FICIMAD 2026, and Madeleine Lancit received the well-deserved Best Upcoming Actress Award.

Here are the kind words of the festival:
« The multifaceted artist Matthew Lancit walks on water in a stunningly beautiful, viscerally human horror film, shot in the first person with impossible perspectives and angles. Beyond his remarkable talent for camera placement, the filmmaker ‭ ‬also ‭ ‬manages ‭ ‬t‭o make what he films, even the most repulsive, disgusting, or painful scenes, seem ‬commonplace or even humorous, creating a powerful emotional dialogue; as if Jacques Tati had filmed ‭The Fly (1986, ‬with enigmatic and sardonic long shots at the climax. The en‭tire cast and crew are utterly dedicated, from the Lynchian ‬makeup to the performances of his daughters, all fully committed‭, body, soul, and insulin, to the masterful director.‬ »

Matthew Lancit grew up in Canada, where teenagers of his generation were marked by the “body horror” film genre. Taking cue from that, PLAY DEAD! is culled from his diary of his family’s quotidian, filmed over five years. He stages the ‘diabetes’ as a hidden, alien presence that haunts his apartment and the very depths of his body. Using performative and burlesque codes, form and content feed off each other as the filmmaker’s body transforms gradually into a haunted shell.

Production : Simon P. R. Bewick, Rasha Salti, , Duplacena
CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Lise Roure
Normandie, PROCIREP / ANGOA, Canada Council for the Arts
A film developed in the framework of SIC - SoundImageCulture.

23/06/2026

BRUSSELS ✨ CALL FOR FILM PROJECTS SIC 2027

We are pleased to announce our confirmed guests for SIC 2027: Nicolas Pereda, Carlos Casas, Carine Doumit, Benny Wagner, James Newitt, and Yaël Bitton. Additional guests will be announced in the coming months.

✦Submission deadline : Monday 12 October 2026

SoundImageCulture is a one year program in Brussels that accompanies filmmakers and artists in the development of their film project. At SIC, a group of coaches – renowned artists/filmmakers – and a group of peers will follow your project in a supportive and professional environment.
SIC has been thought by filmmakers for filmmakers and artists in order to help them break the solitude of the creation process.
It is a framework based on the idea of thinking by doing, on discussion around concrete audiovisual materials.

✦What we look for:
We are looking for film projects that are singular, authentic and push the borders of audiovisual language.
Our aim is to support the participant to develop their artistic vision fully. We give priority to projects that already have visual materials, footage, sounds, photos.

✦What we offer:
Filmmakers, artists and thinkers brainstorm collectively on your project; Personal mentoring; Encounters with international guests allowing new viewpoints on your project; Masterclasses and seminars; Introductions to the local production facilities and infrastructures; A public presentation of your work at the end of the cycle. Collective sessions take place about every two months in Brussels, Belgium.
The spoken language is English.

✦What we except:
To be present at the collective sessions.
To bring new materials (rushes, edits, try-outs) to every session.
To hold at least one meeting (max. 2 hours) with your personal coach in between sessions.
To give feedback and assistance to your peers.

✦Dates of the Collective Sessions 2027:
9–11 December 2026 – 'SIC 2027 intro session'
12 December 2026 | 19:00 – 'End-of-year screening' at
22–26 February 2027
12–16 April 2027
14–18 June 2027
20–24 September 2027

✦Participation fee : 1600 €

© Ote-toi de mon soleil

18/06/2026

✨ CALL FOR FILM PROJECTS SIC 2027

SoundImageCulture is a one year program in Brussels that accompanies filmmakers and artists in the development of their film project. At SIC, a group of coaches – renowned artists/filmmakers – and a group of peers will follow your project in a supportive and professional environment.
SIC has been thought by filmmakers for filmmakers and artists in order to help them break the solitude of the creation process.
It is a framework based on the idea of thinking by doing, on discussion around concrete audiovisual materials.

✦Submission deadline : Monday 12 October 2026

✦What we look for:
We are looking for film projects that are singular, authentic and push the borders of audiovisual language.
Our aim is to support the participant to develop their artistic vision fully. We give priority to projects that already have visual materials, footage, sounds, photos.

✦What we offer:
Filmmakers, artists and thinkers brainstorm collectively on your project; Personal mentoring; Encounters with international guests allowing new viewpoints on your project; Masterclasses and seminars; Introductions to the local production facilities and infrastructures; A public presentation of your work at the end of the cycle. Collective sessions take place about every two months in Brussels, Belgium.
The spoken language is English.

✦What we except:
To be present at the collective sessions.
To bring new materials (rushes, edits, try-outs) to every session.
To hold at least one meeting (max. 2 hours) with your personal coach in between sessions.
To give feedback and assistance to your peers.

✦Dates of the Collective Sessions 2027:
9–11 December 2026 – 'SIC 2027 intro session'
12 December 2026 | 19:00 – 'End-of-year screening' at
22–26 February 2027
12–16 April 2027
14–18 June 2027
20–24 September 2027

✦Participation fee : 1600 €

✦Selection:
Our selection is based on a project proposal for a film.
Please complete the form on our website.
*Link in bio.

Send us your application before: Monday 12 October 2026 at 12pm noon (Brussels time).

© Julian Garcia Long (From the Mountain We See the Mountain)

11/06/2026

💙 Don’t miss tonight, Viv Li’s Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest (东山飘雨西山晴), premiering in Brussels at Beursschouwburg.

Thursday, June 11 at 22:30
at rooftop, Brussels
*free

✨Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
2026, 84 mins

A Chinese misfit ricochets between Berlin’s q***r frenzy and Beijing’s family order, transforming cultural whiplash into an offbeat search for identity and a playful quest for belonging

Written and directed 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”
With support from .de
And
A film developed in the framework of SIC
With the help of .docs

✨The film premiered at:
Panorama

New Directors/New Films ( Lincoln Center & MoMA)

11/06/2026

📽️ It was a great pleasure to welcome these last days filmmakers Nicolas Graux and Trương Minh Quý to GC Ten Weyngaert in Brussels for an inspiring and stimulating session with the SIC participants.

You can still join us this week for :

📽️From Subject to Form
Workshop by Alexandra Kandy Longuet
Thursday 11 June 2026, 9:30—13:30
GC Ten Weyngaert (Brussels)
Pay what you can €5 – €10 – €15 (limited availability)
*If you want to attend, please email us at [email protected]

📽️GPS Signal Lost
Case study by Pierre Voland
Thursday 11 June 2026
15:00—17:00
GC Ten Weyngaert (Brussels)
Pay what you can €5 – €10 – €15 (limited availability)
*If you want to attend, please email us at [email protected]

📽️Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest by Viv Li
Screening
Thursday, June 11 at 22:30
at rooftop, Brussels
*free, no reservation needed.

📽️Starting Points: Previous Works by SIC Participants
Screenings
This Friday 12 June 2026
14:00—16:00 & 16:30—18:30
(Forest, Brussels)
*free, no reservation needed.

https://soundimageculture.org/agenda/

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11/06/2026

💙Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest by Viv Li
Thursday, June 11 at 22:30
at rooftop, Brussels
*free

🎥Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
85'/2026
Viv, a Chinese wannabe artist, found herself stuck in Berlin after the pandemic and accidentally ventured into the city’s vibrant alternative culture scene. Drifting between new environments and traditional expectations, Viv is constantly adapting to shifting opinions about herself, the world and, of course, China, only to feel more lost than ever. Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest follows Viv’s eclectic encounters and the nuanced culture clashes that shape them. Told in a deeply personal and humorous voice, the film takes a witty yet sharp look at the quest for a sense of belonging in a globalised world and how different societies define our lives. A story of the perpetual search for oneself, identity and acceptance, woven into a spiral of surreal yet tangible moments.

Biography: "Hello! This is Viv. Thanks for dropping by. Normally I would say, I'm from Beijing, now lives in Berlin. I am a filmmaker, an artist and I am making my first feature, winning ### awards. But the more I think about it, the more I find it cheesy and dull. Nobody wants to read another person's glory all the time, and that is such a one-sided presentation, just like censorship. So
here I want to tell you the real me, the failure side.
I am terrible at balance so I suck at most sports. Hence I also don't know how to dance. I made 5 short films that went nowhere, and the money I spent on festival submissions, can pay my rent for a year. I have belly fat and two very small side teeth. I spent 2 years wandering around in South America, ending up being robbed 4 times. I started writing 2 books since 2013, and I never finished them. I have literally no savings and there were a handful of times my bank account went down to 1 digit. I cook badly and I have a complicated relationship with eating. I feel insecure about my works all the time, day and night."

Producers: Daniela Dieterich, Erik Winker, Martin Roelly, Ümit Uludağ
Co-Producers: Olivia Sophie Van Leeuwen, Ruby Deelen
A film developed in the framework of SIC.

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