Culture

Last week, Flanders House screened two Flemish films on the 44th floor of The New York Times Building. On April 27, Flanders House was excited to present the new Flemish feature film Bullhead to a select audience. Hyped as one of the best Flemish movies to hit the market in a decade, Michael R. Roskam's debut feature already won two awards at the third Beaune International Thriller Film Festival (30 March - 3 April). The film captured the Jury Award as well as the Critic's Prize. The awards in Beaune follow closely on the news that the movie has passed the 400,000-admission mark in Flanders. Bullhead is also set for screening at the Marché du Film in Cannes.

Op April 28, Flanders House welcomed her guests to a private screening of Antwerp Central, which takes the viewer on a journey through the physical and mental space of Antwerp’s railway cathedral, from its construction to the present day. Drawing inspiration from the book “Austerlitz” by W.G. Sebald, screenwriter/director Peter Krüger approaches Antwerp Central Railway Station as a magical realistic location where present and past, history and daily life, fiction and reality are in constant flux. Antwerp Central is a creative documentary in which visual observations occasion historical, humoristic and poetic reflections on Antwerp’s railway cathedral; it recently won the Grand Prize at this year’s 29th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal (March 17-27), and will receive its US premiere at the Architecture & Design Film Festival in Chicago (May 5-9.)

The next day, Flanders House was proud to host a meet and greet with Scala and the Kolacny Brothers to celebrate the successful ending of their first ever US tour.