Belgium’s Cinema Desert: Why One of Europe’s Densest Countries Still Lacks Screens

With just one screen per 148,000 people, Belgium is dramatically behind its neighbors in cinema access. Can new models and local coalitions help reverse the trend?

Going to the movies in Belgium is still too often an obstacle course. While France has one cinema screen for every 33,000 people, and the Netherlands one for every 62,000, Belgium lags far behind wit…