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The Ronquières Inclined Plane is a situated on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal. It opened in 1968.  The construction intends to reduce the delays imposed by the 14 locks which were hitherto needed for the canal to bridge the topographical differences in height.

What better place to start a journey … than the exact middle of Belgium, here situated in Ittre. In 1989 the geographical middle was recalculated (taking into account the acquisition of Eupen-Malmédy in 1920) and it is now situated in Nil-Saint-Vincent in Walloon Brabant.  In Brussels by Night, the middle is not the beginning but merely the beginning of the end. After the middle, it all goes down. Certainly if

In the 1980s, the Flemish city film has its heyday. After years of historical dramas and literary adaptations, Flemish cinema reinvents itself. In his debut, director Marc Didden (1949), a Brussels’ ketje himself, chronicles a desperate murderer’s wanderings through the desolate Brussels’ night. In the same year – but in a far less dark melancholic atmosphere, Antwerp director Patrick Le Bon m

In the eighties, a new generation of Flemish film makers comes to the fore, of which Dominique Deruddere and Marc Didden are the most prolific. Based in Brussels, they make very different films from their Antwerp counterparts of the rebellious Fugitive Film collective (notably Guido Hendrickx and Robbe De Hert). Crazy Love is a triptych about a a young man looking for love. We follow three nights in the life of Harry