Every month, Cinema ZED transforms Aula Vesalius into a real movie theater, with atmospheric decor and professional image and sound. Students with a ZED Student Card pay only €5, and with the KU Leuven Culture Card, admission is completely free. But no worries: everyone is welcome of course, students and non-students alike. Non-students pay the regular ticketprice, €12. As always, we start the screening with a fun quiz or activity.

After the death of their mother, Nora and Agnes Borg are forced to confront their distant father. Gustav abandoned the family when the girls were still young to pursue his career as a director. In an attempt to remain relevant, he tries to get an autobiographical project off the ground that would be filmed in his childhood home, casting his daughter Nora in a leading role. As filming begins, Gustav tries not only to revive his career, but also his relationship with his daughters.

Spoken languages: Norwegian, English

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What did Leuven look like in the late 1950s? The differences with the (student) city we know today are striking. Students attend classes in suits and ties, and female and foreign students are few and far between. At the Institute for Nuclear Physics, researchers worked with radioactive material without protection—unthinkable today. But there are also similarities: the Alma student restaurant is one of the major landmarks, and the annual Togati parade at the opening of the academic year still looks much the same.

This 1960 film by Pierre Levie was commissioned by the university and is a unique historical document that captures the university and student life in Leuven at the end of the 1950s. These images are among the last to have been preserved from before the university split in 1968 – no one suspected at the time that the institution would be radically transformed ten years later.

Spoken languages: Dutch 

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 Long before the internet was a thing, The Rocky Horror Picture Show went “viral” through midnight screenings around the world. Together, millions of fans still enjoy the most successful cult film of all time with its liberating camp, rock, and queer vibe. There's no better time than now—on the occasion of its 50th anniversary—to take a look behind the scenes of this iconic classic.

Named after one of the film's many catchy songs, this documentary takes a frenzied deep dive into the decades-long cult following surrounding the longest-running theatrical release in film history. Featuring interviews with many of the original cast and crew, as well as diehard fans who have been there since the beginning, the film pays tribute to those who made Rocky Horror what it is today: a joyful, shared celebration of freedom, (queer) expression, body positivity, and chosen family.

Spoken languages: English 

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You can also buy a combiticket for both the Rocky Horror documentary and the movie, for only 18 euros. 

Twenty-year-old Bruno lives on the streets. Together with a few schoolchildren, he commits thefts and then sells the loot. He lives with his girlfriend, eighteen-year-old Sonia, whose child benefit they live on. Sonia has just given birth and named their child Jimmy. At first, Bruno wants nothing to do with the baby, but then he realizes that he can make money from the newborn. In an unguarded moment, Bruno sells the baby in an illegal transaction. Sonia cannot stomach such betrayal and faints. Once back from the hospital, she no longer wants to see Bruno.

Spoken language: French 

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