Cinema Rural: Mapping and description of audio-visual material about rural life in Flemish-Belgium.

The development of cinema culture has long been regarded as an urban phenomenon. Recent research shows that the countryside and the agricultural sector played a much greater role in this than was initially thought. Then Government institutions and agricultural organizations saw film as an extremely powerful medium for communication with rural population.

The most important collections are those of the Boerenbond and the former Federal Ministry of Agriculture. These collections have been described and catalogued. Some films have been digitized. Altogether, these collections contain almost a thousand films on agriculture in Belgium.