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LEUVEN - The world of film history has lost one of its most dedicated and pioneering scholars with the passing of Guido Convents on September 11, 2025. A Belgian historian and anthropologist whose work illuminated corners of cinema history too often left in shadow, Convents devoted his life to documenting and preserving the film heritage of Africa, with particular emphasis on the colonial and post-colonial experiences of Portuguese-speaking nations and the former Belgian territories.

LOS ANGELES - Left Behind, Marijn Fidder's photo documentary project about the children left behind by economic migrants from Romania and Moldova, has received an International Photography Award in the category “Professional Editorial / Press, Contemporary Issues”. 

BRUSSELS - Fifteen parliamentary questions, five years of waiting for a Rops painting, two and a half years of no response from museums. The Nazi looting claims piled up in recent years, but nothing happened. Now it is finally in the Flemish coalition agreement. Minister Caroline Gennez is setting up a commission to settle claims and organise provenance investigations.

BRUSSELS - IRPI has been awarded the Honorary Title for Freedom of Expression as part of Difference Day 2025, organized by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), under the patronage of UNESCO.

Kinshuk Surjan's debut documentary film Marching in the Dark is under consideration in the category Best Documentary Feature for the 97th Academy Awards next year.

Do you have a good idea for a cross-border research project between the Netherlands and Belgium? Do you like working in a team with someone who knows more about the other side? Then apply for a scholarship at FPD Lage Landen.

In Europe, children sometimes end up in prison. Not because they have done something wrong, but because they are the (unborn) child of a convicted, accused or interned woman. Bruges prison even has a special ward where young children can live with their imprisoned mothers. Read the story behind the podcast Here Mum Lives Now here.

BRUSSELS - Journalismfund.eu vzw again offers grants for scientific journalism research. The Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister of Science Policy, Hilde Crevits, provides additional support.

BRUSSELS - The next deadline for submitting a project is 10 September 2021. Articles in daily and weekly newspapers, online longreads, podcasts, documentaries, ... The Fund supports in-depth and investigative journalism in all its forms.