As part of the retrospective at Cinema Galeries, the Kunstenfestivaldesarts is screening of one of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films at a unique location in the green belt around Brussels. Tropical Malady (2004) is the Thai director’s fourth feature film. It received the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, definitively hoisting the director to the forefront of avant-garde cinema. The film is a poetic and compelling love story about the mysteries of desire. Deep in the Thai rainforest, a soldier and a shy village boy fall in love, the beginning of an intense and uncomplicated romance. Until one of them suddenly disappears into the darkness of the woods and the story turns into a hypnotic, feverish dream about dark spirits and irrational fears. The rainforest is a recurrent motif in Weerasethakul’s films. On 16 May, Tropical Malady can be viewed in an enchanting spot in the Forêt de Soignes. An event!