Cinea

20/05/2026

en De Cinema zoeken filmliefhebbers die als vrijwilliger het team willen versterken tijdens het Zomerfilmcollege 2026 van 5 tot en met 11 juli! Plaats van gebeuren: De Cinema in Antwerpen.

Je taken bestaan uit het runnen van de balie, het publiek begeleiden, controle aan de ingang van de zaal en diverse logistieke klussen. Je wordt met je collega-vrijwilligers onderverdeeld in teams van twee personen — elk team neemt telkens een voor- of namiddag voor zijn rekening.

We bieden een toffe ervaring in een klein, geëngageerd team. Op je vrije momenten kan je gratis je favoriete films en bijhorende lezingen meepikken! Zo kan je één van beide thema's van het Zomerfilmcollege volledig volgen. Dit jaar heb je keuze uit 'HEARTS OF THE WORLD: GLOBAL FLOWS OF MELODRAMA’ of ‘CINEMA OF POETRY: TEXTURE AND MOOD IN NARRATIVE FILM'. Meer info over deze programma's vind je via www.cinea.be

We zoeken mensen die liefst de hele week kunnen meehelpen, maar stel je zeker ook kandidaat als je maar een deel van de tijd beschikbaar zou zijn! Flexibiliteit en zin voor initiatief worden ten zeerste geapprecieerd. We zoeken vooral enthousiaste mensen met een hart voor film!

Bij interesse of vragen, aarzel niet om ons te contacteren!

Stel je nu kandidaat in een mailtje naar [email protected]

CINEA belicht het cinematografisch erfgoed in al zijn boeiende facetten en al zijn reïncarnaties van eind negentiende eeuw tot vandaag.

16/04/2026

Join Cinea and De Cinema in early July for ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE 2026: a week of in-depth lectures by internationally renowned critics and academics, Q&As with filmmakers, and screenings of both original 35mm copies and recent digital restorations!

This 31st (!) edition features two diverse programme strands. HEARTS OF THE WORLD: GLOBAL FLOWS OF MELODRAMA, presented in collaboration with the UAntwerpen - Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, demonstrates how melodrama’s versatility allowed it to travel the world. With lectures by Professor Ben Singer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Dr. Viola Shafik (freelance filmmaker/lecturer/researcher).

In CINEMA OF POETRY: TEXTURE AND MOOD IN NARRATIVE FILM, we look for the elusive qualities—mystery, mood, texture, sensuality, etc.—that constitute ‘the poetic’ in narrative film. Guest speakers include ZFC habitués and film critics Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López.

⤷ PASSES ARE NOW ON SALE via cinea.be! You can attend both programmes or either sub-programme. Tickets for separate lectures and screenings will become available at a later date. Film students and unemployed people can book their tickets at the reduced rate.

The lectures will be entirely in English, and all screenings will have English subtitles. More practical info via cinea.be.

Let us know if you'll be attending: https://www.facebook.com/events/1489712029182520/
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ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE 2026 is an initiative by CINEA, co-produced and hosted by DE CINEMA, and funded by VLAAMS AUDIOVISUEEL FONDS (VAF). With the support of CINEMATEK and UAntwerpen.

06/03/2026

Time to mark your calendars! From 5 to 11 July, Cinea and De Cinema once again present a week full of remarkable films, insightful talks, and vibrant discussions during ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE 2026!

Keep an eye out for more announcements in the coming weeks on topics and guest speakers via our social media, website, and newsletter!

Cover Image from MOTHER INDIA (Mehboob Khan, 1957)

M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp CINEMATEK

25/08/2025

De 4K-restauratie van PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray, 1955) ging op 7 juli in première tijdens Cinea’s ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE en is de komende weken dankzij Lumière Publishing in verschillende cinema’s te zien. De reacties op de vertoning tijdens het ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE waren alvast veelbelovend!

Met zijn even documentaire als lyrische stijl bood Satyajit Ray een alternatief voor de traditionele Bollywood-cinema. Op het filmfestival van Cannes in 1956 won PATHER PANCHALI de prijs voor ‘beste humanistische document’. Daarmee zette Ray India op de kaart als serieuze speler in de arthousecinema. Regisseurs als Martin Scorsese en Akira Kurosawa roemden zijn werk. PATHER PANCHALI werd een soort blauwdruk voor langzame cinema over echte mensen.

Spoed je in de komende weken naar een van de Lumière-cinema’s, Sphinx Cinema of kunstencentrum BUDA. Elke bezoeker aan de film krijgt een gratis brochure met daarin een tekst van Anke Brouwers over PATHER PANCHALI.

14/07/2025

This was ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE 2025! See you next year 🎞️✨

Thank you , and all the other lecturers, guests and participants !

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12/07/2025

Enjoy the last day of our ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE with Ray in colour, an authentic and universal portrait of the lives of these four teenage women in France and the brothers Dardenne’s Palme d’Or awarded ‘Rosetta’.

9h30: Screening Ghare Baire / The Home and the World (1984) 140′ + lecture ‘Ray’s Nationalism’ (Rochona Majumdar)

14h30: Screening La vie ne me fait pas peur / Life Doesn’t Scare Me (Noemie Lvovsky, 1999) 111′ + lecture ‘Energy and Friendship in the Young French Cinema of the 1990s’ (Cristina Álvarez López)

19u30: Screening Rosetta (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 1999) 94′ + post screening talk ‘The Legacy of Rosetta and Émilie Dequenne: A Conversation with Dorothée Van Den Berghe and Laura Wandel’ by Wouter Hessels.

Find the full program on cinea.be, and buy single tickets (one screening + lecture) via or at the front desk.

11/07/2025

We’re nearing the end of our ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE, but we still have six films on the menu! Starting the day off with Jean-Claude Brisseau’s view on the violent youngsters of the ‘banlieue’. And, we’re moving into Ray’s films of the 70s with the first two of his Calcutta Trilogy.

9h30: Screening De bruit et de fureur  / Sound and Fury (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1987) 95′ + lecture Anger, Revolt and Dreaming in the Cinema of Brisseau’ (Cristina Álvarez López)

14h30: Screening Pratidwandi / The Adversary (1970) 109’ + lecture ‘Ray’s City’ (Rochona Majumdar)

19h30: Screening Seemabaddha / Company Limited (1971) 112′ + introduction by Rochona Majumdar

Find the full program on cinea.be, and buy single tickets (one screening + lecture) via or at the front desk.

10/07/2025

Have you been waiting for an 80s teen movie in our program? You’re in luck today! Teen icon Billie Jean will be followed by another one of Ray’s films starring the beautiful Madhabi Mukherjee, and a movie star on a reminiscent train ride.

9h30: Screening The Legend of Billie Jean (Matthew Robbins, 1985) 96′ + lecture ‘Girl Power and Symbolic Action in the 1980s’ (Adrian Martin)

14h30: Screening Kapurush / The Coward (1965) 70′ + lecture ‘Ray’s Men’ (Rochona Majumdar)

19h30: Screening Nayak / The Hero (1966) 116′ + introduction by Rochona Majumdar

You can still register for one or both modules of the full program via cinea.be, or buy single tickets (one screening + lecture) via or at the front desk.

09/07/2025

We are already halfway through our Zomerfilmcollege! Today we’re presenting a Japanese story of body-swapping teenagers, a portrait of a working woman in 1960s Kolkata and the escape of a lonely wife.

9h30: 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝗸ō𝘀𝗲𝗶 / 𝗜 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂, 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗔𝗺 𝗠𝗲 aka 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1982) 113′ + lecture ‘A Guide to Body-Swapping, Body-Hopping, and Self-Splitting’ (Adrian Martin)

14h30: 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗿 / 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 (1963) 134′ + lecture ‘Ray Asks the Woman’s Question’ (Ritika Kaushik)

20h00: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗮 / 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗳𝗲 (1964) 117′ + introduction by Ritika Kaushik

You can still register for one or both modules of the full program via cinea.be, or buy single tickets (one screening + lecture) via or at the front desk.

08/07/2025

On day three of our ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE, expect a steamy coming-of-age, the second instalment of Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy and a dreamy portrait of a young woman’s divinity.

9h30: Screening 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗘𝗻𝗱 (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970) 88′ + lecture ‘Teen Angst and Impossible Desire in the 1970s’ (Cristina Álvarez López)

14h30: Screening 𝗔𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗷𝗶𝘁𝗼 / 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 (1956) 104′ + lecture ‘Bonds of Family and Tradition in Ray’s Films’ (Ritika Kaushik)

19h30: Screening 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶 / 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘀 (1960) 99′ + introduction by Ritika Kaushik

You can still register for one or both modules of the full program via cinea.be, or buy single tickets (one screening + lecture) via or at the front desk.

07/07/2025

APARAJITO is the second installment of Satyajit Ray’s humanist trilogy about Apu. Now Apu has become a young man, who moves with his family from the countryside to the buzzing city of Benares. His evolution from a curious child into an inquisitive young adult eventually leads him away from home, to go to college in Kolkata. In his search for self-expression and his own identity he moves further and further away from his mother and her traditional values. This film from 1956 wondrously depicts the friction between modernism and tradition with which Apu struggles.

We will be screening 𝘼𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙟𝙞𝙩𝙤 / 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 on Tuesday, 8 July at 14h30 in followed with the lecture ‘Bonds of Family and Tradition in Ray’s Films’ by Ritika Kaushik.

On 1 October, you will be able to watch the third instalment of Satyajit Ray’s APU-trilogy in Mark your calendars!

Buy your tickets via decinema.be 🎞️