One Thursday a month, Palace invites you to discover Belgian cinema. Unreleased titles or heritage films signed by Belgian filmmakers.

Trilingual introduction to the film by Wouter Hessels, film historian at RITCS.

MEEUWEN STERVEN IN DE HAVEN (SEAGULLS DIE IN THE HARBOUR)

Rik Kuypers, Ivo Michiels, and Roland Verhavert

BE, 94', 1955, VO NL ST FR

Cannes Classics 2026

Synopsis: Set to a score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, this pessimistic urban drama uses stark, expressionistically lit black-and-white cinematography to trace the wanderings of a tormented man through the cosmopolitan port city of Antwerp. The only people who show him any understanding are a young orphan and two disillusioned women.