De Cinema

CELEBRATING CINEMA
De Cinema verwent dagelijks filmliefhebbers met een uitgebreid programma. De Cinema is een samenwerking tussen M HKA en De Studio.

De Cinema bevindt zich in de Maarschalk Gérardstraat 4, 2000 Antwerpen, centraal aan het Mechelseplein. Je kan ons bereiken met tram 4, 7, 12 en 24 of bus 1, 13, 22, 290 en 500. De dichtstbijzijnde Velo fietsstations zijn 084-Elzenveld en 073-Maarschalk Gérard.

11/08/2026

🚗 Doet de voorruit van een auto je ook wel eens denken aan een bioscoopscherm? Dat is geen toeval.

Film en auto’s hebben een bijzondere band: je zakt weg in een comfortabele stoel, ziet een veranderende wereld aan je voorbijtrekken vanuit je eigen vertrouwde bubbel en het avontuur kan beginnen... Met CINEMA DÉPANNAGE brengen we al die magie samen!

In september slaan De Cinema, Gravenhof Hoboken en Blikfabriek namelijk de handen ineen voor een unieke bioscoopervaring. Twee weekenden lang veranderen we de Blikfabriek in de ultieme drive-inbioscoop, een plek waar snelheid, verlangen en vrijheid samen komen.

Leun dus achterover en geniet van cultklassiekers zoals DRIVE en MAD MAX, naast tijdloze meesterwerken als BONNIE AND CLYDE, À BOUT DE SOUFFLE en TASTE OF CHERRY – en dat allemaal vanuit het comfort van een auto (geen stress, wij hebben ze al voor je geparkeerd!). Op woensdag staan de gezinswagens klaar om samen te genieten van de familiefilms FINDING NEMO en BACK TO THE FUTURE.

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06/08/2026

In honour of its 60th birthday, BLACK GIRL returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration! Ousmane Sembène ’s stirring feature debut reveals the agony of the postcolonial experience.

Sembène is often called the father of African cinema. His austere visual style and elliptical narrative structure show how identity can be erased precisely within the most domestic of spaces. He transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.

Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, BLACK GIRL is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement. Sixty years later, the film’s moral force remains just as urgent, precisely because Sembène shows how colonial relations do not disappear with independence, but continue to shape language, labour, ownership, and the intimate relations of everyday life.

8 AUG / 30 AUG / 4 SEP / 29 SEP
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30/07/2026

☀️ This summer, you can find De Cinema all over Antwerp with a diverse programme of OPEN AIR CLASSICS…

Every Tuesday in August, we’re presenting an ultimate film classic at Zomer van Antwerpen’s Cinema Urbana—from Billy Wilder’s SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) and Patrick Swayze in DIRTY DANCING (1987) to Wong Kar-wai’s masterpiece IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) and late Marjane Satrapi’s powerful, animated PERSEPOLIS (2007)! Free entrance!

📍Kattendijkdok-Oostkaai 25, Antwerpen

30/07/2026

We gathered a dozen (!) beautiful CINEMA NOW titles for August, when we return from our summer break...

From Alexander Skarsgård in the gay B**M film 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 and a career-high performance by Jennifer Lawrence in 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘔𝘺 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦, to the remarkable feature debuts of Lana Daher (𝘋𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘦), Marjolijn Prins (𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦), Diego Céspedes (𝘓𝘢 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘢 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰), Leni Huyghe (𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴), and Ariane Labed (𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘺𝘴), to music docs such as the Marianne Faithfull tribute starring Tilda Swinton (𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩), 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig and 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯: 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤—and more…!

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12/07/2026

🏖️ We’re taking a ... De Cinema is closing its doors for 3 weeks, but you can join us for some special open-air screenings at Het Bos, De Nor, Middelheimmuseum, and Cinema Urbana in the meantime!

Back to regular programming on August 6!

Image: 𝘓𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘴𝘦 (Éric Rohmer, 1967)

09/07/2026

🎶 Live, loud, and dark: De Cinema, Het Bos, and Sound in Motion collaborate for a special screening of Philippe Garrel’s cult classic 𝘓𝘦 𝘙é𝘷é𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘳 (1968), featuring a brand-new soundtrack by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Réka Csiszér during our next edition of RE/SCORED!

Shot in the aftermath of May ’68, 𝘓𝘦 𝘙é𝘷é𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘳 is instinctive and elusive—a radical work that resists interpretation and demands to be experienced. In the underground film, a man, a woman, and a child wander through a desolate landscape. What they are fleeing from remains unclear, but the threat is ever-present…

Garrel, the rebellious heir to the French New Wave, abandons conventional storytelling to create a hypnotic dreamscape where fear and liberation constantly overlap, leading viewers through a labyrinth of dark tunnels and symbolic landscapes.

Using cello, buzuq, rababa, voice, electronics and analogue synthesizers, Moumneh and Csiszér construct a haunting sonic world that perfectly complements Garrel’s visionary images. Their new soundtrack moves between minimalism and tension, stillness and disorientation, breathing new life into the film without diminishing its mystery.

17 SEPT, 19:30�📍
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De Studio M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

24/06/2026

🪖 We’re screening Terrence Malick’s epic war film on 35mm, as part of ZOMERFILMCOLLEGE 2026’s strand on the “cinema of poetry”. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦 marked Malick’s infamous return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence, earning him the Golden Bear and seven Oscar nominations.

Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Ben Chaplin, and many others play a group of young men from the Army Rifle Company ‘C-for-Charlie’, deployed to fight in the Guadalcanal campaign. The horror of the Second World War brings the soldiers closer together, but as their group grows smaller, the original reason for the battle takes a back seat, and survival is the only thing that matters.

Introduced by film critic Adrian Martin. Thanks to for the 35mm copy.

ONE SCREENING ONLY
WED 8 JUL, 19:30

⤷ Tickets and accreditations available via decinema.be! Film students and unemployed people can book their tickets at the reduced rate. More practical info about ZFC 2026 via cinea.be.

23/06/2026

🇯🇵 A contemporary of Ozu and Kurosawa, the prolific Mikio Naruse is considered a “major figure of Japan’s Golden Age”, even though he remains lesser known than his peers. As part of 𝗭𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, we are screening Naruse’s masterpiece 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴 on 35mm!

In the film, Yukiko works as a secretary for a forestry project under the Japanese wartime government. She has an affair with one of the engineers, Kengo, who promises to leave his wife for her. Later, when she ends up in Tokyo, she reconnects with her lover. They rekindle their relationship, but he refuses to leave his sickly wife.

Introduced by Professor Ben Singer of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Thanks to CINEMATEK for the 35mm copy.

THU 9 JUL, 19:30
⤷ Tickets and accreditations available via decinema.be. Film students and unemployed people can book their tickets at the reduced rate. More practical info via cinea.be.

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.

18/06/2026

👕 NEW SHIRT ON SALE! Slow down, log off: with our film programme SLACKERS & DRIFTERS we proactively reclaim our attention. In a world of constant stimulation, focusing on a single screen is an act of self-care…

Remind yourself of our credo and get a shirt for only €25—hand silkscreened on organic cotton by ! Available at our ticket office in sizes XS, S, M, L, XL & XLL.

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