Expat cinema
Every week we show recent foreign language films with additional English subtitles. Besides these films, you can also enjoy the English spoken films in our regular programme. Check out our selection below.
Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.“There’s often a tendency that when coincidences appear within a story, storytelling almost tends to fail. But Rohmer taught me, in fact, with his films that coincidence also allows you to add risk to storytelling. I think those kinds of risks allow for emotion—and for something moving to happen as well.” Hamaguchi for Slant MagazineRead more [Expat Cinema : Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy VO st EN]- From 17 November to 5 December 2021From 17 November to 5 December 2021, Cinema Galeries presents a retrospective of the work of director Pedro Costa, on the occasion of the release of his latest film, Vitalina Varela.Read more [Retrospective Pedro Costa]
- 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]
- Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.Revolving around the ideas of identity politics, otherness and communion, Lumi is a film where seeing becomes a social act, where seeing is no longer equivalent to a direct perceptual act but to the "racial production of the visible".Read more [Lumi – followed by a Q&A with the artists Zimmerfrei]
Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.Two years after Synonyms, the Israeli director returns to the screen with Ahed’s Knee. Nadav Lapid is not afraid to depict a dirigiste country and an Israeli society governed by fear, under the influence of political censorship, art and ideas. A modern western as musical as it is radical, whose protagonist, a filmmaker in the midst of a personal crisis, will have to fight in the middle of a society in the midst of a collective crisis.Read more [Ahed’s Knee in the presence of Nadav Lapid]- Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.With French and English subtitles from Monday 27 September. Two years after Synonyms, the Israeli director returns to the screen with Ahed's Knee. Nadav Lapid is not afraid to depict a dirigiste country and an Israeli society governed by fear, under the influence of political censorship, art and ideas. A modern western as musical as it is radical, whose protagonist, a filmmaker in the midst of a personal crisis, will have to fight in the middle of a society in the midst of a collective crisis.Read more [Ahed’s Knee]
- Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.Nominated for an Oscar for Best International Film (2021). One of the most successful European films of 2020. Presented at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.Read more [Quo vadis, Aida ? – English sub.]
- 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]
Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie."One of the most powerful new films I’ve seen in years. The whole film has soul, but the fact that Rockwell didn’t go the easy way and shoot it on digital, but instead (like a real filmmaker) shot it on black and white 16mm film makes it a divine soul." - Quentin TarantinoRead more [Sweet Thing]- Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.On the occasion of Nomadland's daily screenings, Cinema Galeries invites you to (re)discover the filmography of its multi award-winning director, Chloé Zhao.Read more [The Rider]
- Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie."A revenge movie written with great accuracy and a sentimental modesty that shakes up. " - CinemaTeaserRead more [Promising Young Woman]
- Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.Winner of three Oscars, including Best Picture, Chloe Zhao's Nomadland has won numerous awards. As a director, screenwriter and editor, she has won more than 60 awards, including over 35 for directing.Read more [Nomadland]
Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.A politically incorrect comedy, about the role of black people in French society, followed by a Q&A with the director, actor, screenwriter Jean-Pascal Zadi, César Award for Most Promising Actor.Read more [Simply Black + Q&A]
Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.By following the journey of an FN activist, this remarkable documentary explores both the psyche of an activist and that of a party with a troubled past. The film is followed by a debate with the director Etienne Chaillou and political scientist Pascal Perrineau, a specialist in electoral sociology.Read more [Film debate: La cravate]
Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.Screening preceded by the short film Shakira, followed by a talk with its director and actress of the film Noémie Merlant. 1770. Marianne is a painter and has to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse resists her destiny as a wife by refusing to pose.Read more [Portrait of a lady on Fire + Shakira + Q&A]
Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.Followed by a Q&A with the director and the composer, winner of the 2021 César for best original soundtrack. Paris 2018. Jin, a young undocumented immigrant, is a VTC driver under the thumb of the Chinese mafia. One night, Naomi, a stripper and bewitching call girl, gets into his car.Read more [Night Ride + Q&A]- Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.During years of solitude in an Alsatian village following the end of a relationship, Frank Beauvais found solace in the screen by watching films obsessively. He then crafted an audiovisual diary by editing shots of the films he was devouring.Read more [Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream]
- Our programme is updated every Monday evening for the coming week. No shows found for this movie.On the occasion of Nomadland’s daily screenings, Cinema Galeries invites you to (re)discover the filmography of its multi award-winning director, Chloé Zhao.Read more [Songs My Brothers Taught Me]
- From 23 March to 24 March 2022Scéal Eile is committed to presenting the best of Irish…Read more [Scéal Eile – Irish Film Festival]
