Festivals
- From 3 June to 17 June 2025To mark Pride Month, Cinéma Galeries presents Pride Month Screenings, a series of three film screenings taking place on the first three Tuesdays of June, celebrating queer voices from around the world. Documentaries, fiction and short films will explore themes of community, solidarity, and representation — through intimate stories, political engagement, and creative perspectives. Screenings will feature guest appearances and collaborations with committed voices from the local and international queer scene.Read more [Pride Month Screenings]
- From 8 July to 19 August 2025For its 14th edition, l'Heure d'Eté film festival is taking you across the Atlantic to New Orleans! An emblematic city and the cultural cradle of the United States, ‘The Crescent City’ - a nickname referring to the graceful curve of the Mississippi that runs through it - has never stopped reinventing itself over the years.Read more [L’heure d’été 2025 : NEW ORLEANS]
- From 28 May to 1 June 2025The ninth edition of the UKRAINE ON FILM festival is organised by Arthouse Traffic, the Association of Ukrainians in Belgium, and the Ukrainian Institute, with the support of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Mission of Ukraine to the European Union, ARTE, and Cinema Galeries.Read more [Ukraine on Film 2025]
- From 1 May to 4 May 2025Established with the purpose of reducing the stigma around pornography…Read more [Brussels Porn Film Festival 2025]
- From 12 March to 21 March 2025Each year, L’Heure d’Hiver invites you to explore a city…Read more [L’heure d’hiver 2025 : Napoli]
- From 27 January to 2 February 2025Le Pass En ville ! 2025 est disponible en ligne et…Read more [Festival En Ville 2025]
- From 21 January to 26 January 2025Nordic films come back to Brussels for the fourth edition of Polarise Nordic Film Nights! Meet us at the Cinema Galeries to share an outstanding selection of features and short films from the 21 to 26 January 2025.Read more [Polarise Nordic Film Nights 2025]
- From 2 January to 23 January 2025In January 2025, rediscover the films that marked 2024!Read more [BEST OF – CINEMA GALERIES 2024]
- From 26 October to 2 November 2024This year marks the 18th edition of the Filem’On international film festival for young audiences, which runs from 23 October to 6 November 2024. As it does every year, the festival is presenting unique and previously unreleased films to families and associations in a number of cinemas and cultural centres in Brussels.Read more [FILEM’ON 2024]
- From 20 October to 29 December 2024From 20 October to 29 December, (re)discover Wong Kar-wai's masterpieces!Read more [Rétrospective Wong Kar-wai]
- From 17 October to 20 October 2024SNAP is a festival dedicated to sex work representations, discourses and narratives. For this new edition, the Halles de Schaerbeek will host the live arts program of the festival on October 18th and 19th while the Cinéma Galeries will be the place for movie screenings.Read more [SNAP! FESTIVAL]
- From 25 July to 22 August 2024This year, as part of the L'Heure d'Été Festival, we're bringing you an open-air focus on dance. Join us to celebrate the beauty of dance in a naturally friendly setting.Read more [L’Heure d’Été 2024 – Focus Danse]
- From 15 July to 17 July 2024Following on from our annual festival l'Heure d'été, this year we're presenting a totally free outdoor event on the themes of water, ecology and living together, in partnership with Cultureghem. Cultureghem works with the 40,000 m2 abattoir market to create a strong social, cultural and artistic link with the local population.Read more [L’Heure d’été 2024 – Jeune public]
- From 25 June to 3 July 2024Are you looking forward to the 7th edition of the BRIFF?Read more [BRIFF – Brussels International Film Festival 2024]
- From 9 May to 12 May 2024In the programme: - Intercepted, Oksana Karpovych - La Palisiada by Philip Sotnychenko - We will not Fade away, Alisa Kovalenko - 20 days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov - Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors, Sergei ParajanovRead more [Ukraine on Film 2024]
- From 6 May to 29 May 2024This spring, the European Union will convene the eighth Brussels…Read more [Syrian Film Festival]
- From 1 May to 1 May 2024In our cinema: Films for Young Audiences (Famille +7) & Regards sur l'EuropeRead more [Brussels Short Film Festival BSFF 2024]
- From 22 April to 27 April 2024Scéal Eile is committed to presenting the best of Irish cinema in Belgium. Supported by the Irish Embassy in Belgium, Culture Ireland, the Irish Film Institute, the office of the Northern Ireland Executive in Brussels, the UK Mission to the EU, the Irish College Leuven and Solas Creative Agency.Read more [SCÉAL EILE – Irish Film Festival 2024]
- From 18 April to 20 April 2024L’initiative d’organiser un festival de cinéma dédié à l’Amérique Latine…Read more [KINOLATINO]
- From 15 April to 16 April 2024One World in Brussels is an annual showcase of a selection of films from the One World Festival in Czechia, currently the world's largest human rights film festival. The 17th edition of One World in Brussels takes place between 15 and 19 April 2024. Each film will be accompanied by a discussion with influential guests with strong voices. Organized by People in Need in cooperation with Czech Centre Brussels and the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU.Read more [One World Film Festival 2024]
- From 13 March to 21 March 2024As every year, CINEMA GALERIES invites you to discover its selection of films during L'Heure d'hiver, the festival that highlights Mediterranean cinema. In 2024, we will celebrate the city of Athens in partnership with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.Read more [L’heure d’hiver 2024 – ATHÈNES]
- From 5 February to 11 February 2024Brussels Independent Film Festival is back! 60+ Films scheduled // 5 to 11 February 2024 // FREE screenings at Cinema Galeries and online.Read more [Brussels Independent Film Festival 2024]
- From 20 January to 1 February 2024Read more [Festival Polarise Nordic Film Nights 2024]
Welcome to the 3rd Polarise Nordic Film Nights from 20 January to 1 February at Cinema Galeries! Nine amazing Nordic films have been selected for you by an enthusiastic and committed collective of Nordic cinema lovers which aims at bringing to Brussels the best of Nordic cinema and the most interesting talents from the North.
- From 9 November to 18 November 2023Pink Screens, c'est dix jours de cinéma, une centaine de films de tous les horizons, une exposition, des discussions, de nombreu·x·ses invité·es et des soirées déjantées, le cru 2023 fera une fois encore le tour du monde en mettant à l’honneur la multiplicité des regards, des corps et des sexualités. Notre indéfectible mission, toujours essentielle et nécessaire, est d'être une plateforme d’expression et de découverte de celleux qui se plaisent à bouleverser les représentations normées et à questionner les genres.Read more [PINK SCREENS FESTIVAL 2023]
- From 25 October to 4 November 2023This year marks the 17th edition of the Filem'On international film festival for young audiences, which runs from 25 October to 4 November 2023. As it does every year, the festival is presenting unique and previously unreleased films to families and associations in a number of cinemas and cultural centres in Brussels.Read more [FILEM’ON 2023]
- From 22 October to 17 December 2023From October 22nd to December 17th, 2023, Cinema Galeries, in partnership with the Korean Cultural Center, offers you an exhibition and a retrospective of the work of director Park Chan-wook, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Old Boy.Read more [Retrospective Park Chan-wook]
- From 10 October to 15 October 2023The festival that cultivates a fairer world. A selection of Belgian and international films (documentaries, dramas, animated films, short films), committed debates, screenings for young audiences, friendly encounters, festive moments and concerts about the challenges of food and agriculture in the world! An initiative by the NGO Humundi, in collaboration with a number of partners, to work together to reinvent our food systems and propose concrete, fair and sustainable solutions for the planet.Read more [Festival Alimenterre 2023]
- From 28 September to 5 October 2023Korean culture has made spectacular strides over the past decade, gaining ground with the Western masses thanks to Oscar-winning films like Parasite, immensely popular K-pop and captivating series like The Squid Game. So thanks for waiting, the 11th edition is fast approaching! This year's festival kicks off in Brussels on September 28 and runs until October 5. 15 classic and never-before-seen films will be screened.Read more [11th Korean Film Festival]
- From 17 September to 23 September 2023In partnership with La Monnaie and on the occasion of the premiere of the opera Cassandre, don't miss these three special screenings. The films in this selection, in the manner of the mythological figure of Cassandra, give us a glimpse of the future, focusing on ecological themes.Read more [Cassandra – La Monnaie]
- From 27 June to 5 July 2023The Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF), will take place from 27th June to 5th July 2023 in the heart of Brussels for its 6th edition! This year again, the BRIFF promises you a concentrate of strong images and emotions on the big screen.Read more [BRIFF 2023 – Brussels International Film Festival]
- From 17 June to 12 August 2023This year, for our annual festival, we'll be taking you on a tour of Mexico City, with open-air screenings and special events! As a pioneer of Latin American cinema, Mexico City has had an eventful cultural history, seeing the birth or welcoming of many directors considered to be true pillars of the seventh art from its beginnings right up to the present day.Read more [L’heure d’été 2023 – MEXICO]
- From 28 May to 1 June 2023In a futuristic setting, philosopher Isabelle Stengers tells her story in an unexpected way, and accompanies us on the edge of the abyss where hope can emerge despite the state of the world.Read more [KunstenFestivaldesArts : Fabrizio Terranova]
- From 2 May to 5 May 2023The Brussels Short Film Festival (BSFF) returns for its 26th…Read more [BSFF – Brussels Short Film Festival 2023]
- From 2 May to 20 May 2023At the initiative of the Insas Filmclub, Cinéma Galeries will host an exceptional retrospective of the Russian filmmaker Andrei Zviaguintsev. The event is organised in support of the director.Read more [Retrospective Andreï Zviaguintsev – Cinéclub INSAS]
- From 24 April to 25 April 2023One World, the world’s largest human rights documentary film festival,…Read more [One World film festival 2023]
- From 26 March to 5 April 2023The MILLENIUM Festival is a high-level international event in Brussels,…Read more [Millenium Documentary Film Festival 2023]
- From 8 March to 19 March 2023Once again in 2023, Cinema Galeries invites you to discover its selection of films for l’Heure d’Hiver, the festival that focuses on Middle Eastern cinema. In 2023, on the occasion of the centenary of the Turkish Republic, we will celebrate the city of Istanbul. For this fifth edition of l’Heure d’Hiver, Cinema Galeries in partnership with European Endowment for Democracy, Bozar and Pink Screens proposes to discover the essence of Turkish cinema through the ages; from recently restored classics to contemporary realisations, addressing the issues of our time.Read more [L’heure d’hiver Istanbul]
- From 1 February to 3 February 2023From the 1st to the 3rd of February, discover Nordic movies with f Polarise Film Festival !Read more [Festival Polarise Nordic Film Nights]
- From 10 November to 19 November 2022Save the date! From November 10th to 19th, the 21st edition of the Pink Screens Festival - the queer film festival of Brussels organized by the non-profit organizations Genres d'à côté and Cinéma Nova - will be held!Read more [Pink Screens 2022]
- From 6 October to 16 October 2022The En ville! film festival is a festival of documentary films that tell the story of our territories, their imaginary world, and the people who live in them and/or make them live.Read more [En Ville ! (In Town !) Off-site]
From 2 July to 31 July 2022This year, L'heure d'été Festival will be the opportunity to present films that are still missing from the Brussels film scene; summer's specials that have never been shown in Belgium before!Read more [Summer’s specials]- From 6 July to 31 July 2022L'heure d'été aims to broadcast recent works to immerse our spectators in the current cinematography of a city to an international audience, this festival will also be an opportunity to highlight different phases of the golden age of cinemas anchored in Marseille with the aim of allowing spectators to discover or rediscover classic films and films rarely presented on the big screen.Read more [L’heure d’été Marseille]
- From 6 May to 12 May 2022The MILLENIUM Festival highlights films whose themes are linked to the major challenges and objectives of the 21st century, adopted by the United Nations in 2000.Read more [Millenium Documentary Film Festival 2022]
- From 4 April to 17 April 2022On the occasion of its annual film festival L'heure d'hiver, Cinema Galeries proposes a focus on a Middle Eastern city. The programme aims to reflect the urban, demographic, social and political dynamics that make up the city, but also and above all to tell the story of how these dynamics are lived: what stories they shape, what experiences and what perspectives.Read more [L’heure d’hiver Beirut]
- From 11 November to 19 November 2021The Pink Screens festival aims to be a platform for the expression and discovery of those who like to disrupt normative representations and question binarities and boundaries, who denounce established boxes and who make alternative and/or minority genders and sexualities visible.Read more [Pink screens 2021]
- From 27 October to 6 November 2021The international film festival for young audiences Filem’On is holding its 15th edition this year from October 27 until November 6, 2021. During 10 days, we’ll be showing unique films to schools, families and associations in various theaters and cultural houses of Brussels.Read more [Filem’On 2021]
- From 22 October to 30 October 2021The eclectic 9th edition of the Korean Film Festival 2021 will combine fiction, documentaries and thrillers, shorts and features, and several categories. Korean Film Today for the most recent films, Animazing Animation for animated films, and My Hidden Gems for "unclassifiable" gems, a section created to mark the 120th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Belgium and Korea.Read more [9th Korean Film Festival Belgium]
- From 7 October to 15 October 2021A documentary film festival about our territories, their imaginary, and those who inhabit and/or bring them to life. Every street corner is an opportunity to meet new ones. A multifaceted festival, a place of various discoveries for those open to the surprises of the “cinéma du réel”.Read more [Festival En ville ! (In town !)]
- From 1 September to 11 September 2021In its fourth edition, the Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF) is taking over our capital city.Read more [Briff @ Galeries]
- From 28 August to 5 September 2021The Brussels Short Film Festival is very happy to come back to the Brussels cinemas from August 28 to September 5, 2021 for a 24th edition which, as always, will have at heart to share the best of the short format with the public and professionals.Read more [BSFF @ Galeries]
- From 24 June to 18 August 2021For this special "hors série" edition of our annual L'heure d'été festival, we will this year focus on multiple cinematographies: a cinematographic archipelago in various Brussels public open air spaces that we will take over for the occasion.Read more [L’heure d’été: hors-série]
