Fancy spending the weekend in Brussels with a bunch of lovely, queer, film buffs? ✨
Heard of Girls Heart Brussels? If you haven't and you're Europe-based, this is one lez/bi event you need to have under your radar…
We chatted to Jessica Gysel, organiser of the Brussels-based cultural festival, earlier this year ahead of their April event.
Now, the femme-tastic women behind the event are back this November with their autumn, film-fest-shaped collab event, Pink Screens.
"We’ve been organizing the weekends for four years now," Jessica told us back in March.
"We're seeing a growing community of girls who keep coming back. They make new friends, stay in contact in between the spring and winter editions, visit each other… It’s just really nice to see."
Join the lovely lez/bi lot from November 9 — 11 for a hand-picked programme of films, their infamous Lesbian City Tour, and the European premiere of Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown, a documentary film exploring the underground, black-lesbian strip club from which the film gets its name.
Oh, and GHB's optional package deal is definitely worth checking out, by the way, especially if you wanna' make pals.
Fancy it? Have a browse of the Pink Screens programme below, or head to the Girls ♥ï¸ Brussels website for more.
PROGRAMME
_FRIDAY NOV 9
19.00 – 21.00: WELCOME DRINK AT HOTEL BRISTOL STEPHANIE
_SATURDAY NOV 10
10.30 – 13.00: L-TOUR WITH MARIAN LENS (PICK-UP AT HOTEL)
13.00 – 14.30: BRUNCH AT LES FILLES
15.00 – 16.30: SCREENING JE, TU, IL, ELLE (1974), A FILM BY CHANTAL AKERMAN AT CINEMA NOVA (OPTIONAL)
17.00 – 18.30: SCREENING QUEER SHORTS AT CINEMA NOVA (OPTIONAL)
19.30 – 21.00: SCREENING SHAKEDOWN (2017), A FILM BY LEILAH WEINRAUB AT BEURSSCHOUWBURG
21.30 – 23.00: SCREENING LAS HIJAS DEL FUEGO (2018), A FILM BY ALBERTINA CARRY (OPTIONAL)
22.00 – 22.30: CONCERT EARTHEATER AT BEURSSCHOUWBURG
23.00 – LATE: AFTERPARTY AT BEURSSCHOUWBURG (DJ'S TBA)
_SUNDAY NOV 11
11.00 – 13.00: GUIDED TOUR OF FLEAMARKET AND DOWNTOWN BRUSSELS (OPTIONAL)
15.00 – 16.30: SCREENING O BRASIL EM CURTAS, SHORTS FROM BRAZIL (OPTIONAL)
17.00 – 18.30: SCREENING MY BODY MY RULES (2015), A MOVIE BY EMILY JOUVET (OPTIONAL)
See you there, DIVAs ✨
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