03/06/2026
Flemish Film Classics: Little Baby Jesus of Flandr + Lecture with Wouter Hessels
Next Week
Little Baby Jesus of Flandr
Directed by Gust Van den Berghe
Belgium, 2010
When the three beggars are tired of their poverty and hunger, they decide to sing some Epiphany on Christmas Eve, singing themselves rich. On the way back to the pub however, they get lost in the woods and witness the birth of Little Baby Jesus.
Wouter Hessels will deliver an illustrated lecture on Flemish cinema and its histories.
Wouter Hessels teaches film history, film analysis, media & society and Belgian cinema at RITCS (Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound) and at INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle) in Brussels. He is also a visiting professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and works as an independent film programmer and film curator (Cinémathèque Française, Cinematek, Gaasbeek Castle, Cineteca di Milano, House of European History). He writes on film, arts, politics, psychoanalysis and education. Wouter performs poetry and political cabaret in Dutch, French, English and Italian. In April 2026 he organises the first edition of the Restored Film Festival Brussels. His latest publication is an essay book on the cinema of Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne.
Developed in collaboration with Flanders House and other Belgian cultural institutions and curated by Wouter Hessels, this programme of screenings running at the Barbican and the Garden Cinema invites audiences to experience rarely seen films in their original format while discovering the breadth of a film culture that has long bridged the local and the international.
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/62032/flemish-film-classics-little-baby-jesus-of-flandr-lecture-with-wouter-hessels
