A Man Imagined + Shorts
TUESDAY, 14 APRIL 2026
20:00 / 8PM
This screening session includes 1 feature film + 2 short films (approximately 90 minutes, original versions with English subtitles).
@ Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Gent.
Tickets are FREE and include a free drink at the Velvet Room bar afterwards.

Faustyna (Poland) by Natalia Dutkiewicz
Faustyna is 22 years old and wants to find her voice. Will sex work and theatre help her in this journey?
Running time: 00:22:07

Outside the Box: An Authentic Portrait of Charlemagne Palestine (Italy) by Nicola Pietromarchi
An interview that turns into a confrontation: Charlemagne Palestine, experimental musician and unconventional artist, resists every label. In the scorching heat of the Tuscan summer, a sincere and unfiltered portrait of a provocative mind emerges, essentially faithful to its own consistency and identity. An authentic encounter with an uncompromising spirit.
Running time: 00:06:30

A Man Imagined (Canada) by Melanie Shatzky, Brian M. Cassidy
Pushing at the limits of non-fiction cinema, A Man Imagined is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay. Made in close collaboration with 67-year-old Lloyd, this immersive documentary fable follows the jagged path of a decades-long street survivor, across harsh winters and blistering summers, as he sells discarded items to motorists, sleeps in junkyards and lapses into near-psychedelic reveries.
Running time: 01:02:00

