Compétition courts-métrages

In collaboration with UPCB (The Belgian Film Press Union), Universciné Belgium and ARRF (Association of Francophone Film Directors), the Brussels Film Festival organizes a national short film competition, intending to give these films more visibility by showing them to large audience. 12 Francophone and Flemish films compete for the Best Belgian Short Film Award, with a value of 2.100€.

Jury composition

André Buytaers (director) – president du Jury
Katia Bayer (journalist 'Format Court')
Dimitra Bouras (journalist 'Cinergie')
Stéphane Fefer (photographer 'The Kobal Collection')
Inès Rabadan (director 'Belhorizon')
Pierre Raemdonck (journalist 'Visie')
Caroline Strubbe (director 'Lost Persons Area')

Short films in competition

L’ARBRE A CLOUS

by Fabrice Couchard - Frakas productions - 20’ > 25&26/06 - 21.00 - Flagey 1
Pierre, highschool teacher, is happy with his wife Sève until the day she announces her pregnancy. This news will upset Pierre…

LA BALANÇOIRE

by Christophe Hermans - Eklektik productions - 19’ > 28/06 - 18.30 - Flagey 4
A highway gas station is the meeting point of two worlds, the father's and the mother's. The story of a little boy troubled by a swing he has to hang somewhere...

CLIMAX

by Frédéric Sojcher – Sombrero Productions – 14' > 24/06 – 18.30 – Flagey 4
Tragicomedy on a film set. A director (Lorant Deutsch) just isn't able to make his lead actor (Patrick Chesnais) play the key scene of the movie, as it is written,


DE SI, PRES

by Rémi Durin - La boîte, … productions - 13’ > 26/06 – 19.00 & 28/06 - 21.00 - Flagey 5
Mister Gerbier is strolling in a park with his granddaughter. While she is playing, he is calmly dreaming away on a bench. Really calm?


HOW TO ENRICH YOURSELF BY DRIVING WOMEN INTO FINANCIAL AND EMOTIONAL BANKRUPTCY

by Pim Algoed - A Team productions - 15’ > 26/06 - 21.30 - Flagey 4
A plumber discovers that doing work around the house for single women is a gold mine...


PAIX SUR TERRE

by Christophe Gérard – Les Films du Nord, La Boîte,… Productions, CRRAV, Lunanime – 14'
> 26/06 – 18.30 – Flagey 4
The night is falling somewhere on earth. Here and there, ovoids fall down from the sky. Shortly after, we find empty chairs and fishing rods planted in the grass. Everything becomes strangely calm.

PHONE STORY

by Berivan Binesva - Playtime Films - 16’ > 27/06 - 19.00 - Flagey 5
Mémo, a Kurdish immigrant, owns a call shop in a popular Brussels neighbourhood. His curiosity and his solitude make him listen to the phone conversations of his clients, particularly Leïla‘s…

POST SCRIPTUM

by Jef Vingerhoedt – Narafi – 16' > 27/06 – 18.30 – Fagey 4
Bernard is a 34-year-old watchmaker who lives according to the rhythm of his pendulums. But one day, his quiet little life is disturbed by Joke, his charming neighbour from upstairs…


TAPE

by Martijn Ravesloot & Jonas Wellens – Sint-Lukas – 5' > 28 &29/06 - 19.00 - Flagey 5
“I don’t think there is a purpose in my life, other than pure pleasure. I am free […]. There is but one certitude: nothing lasts longer than 10 seconds.”

VASCO

by Sébastien Laudenbach – La Boîte,… Productions – 11' > 25/06 – 19.00 & 27/06 – 21.00 – Flagey 5
You have left, Vasco, you wanted to go far away. We have kept you for a while, with concrete and kisses, and you have tasted the blood of whales. But it wasn’t enough, you wanted to go elsewhere, to join that horizon that fascinated you. But until where are you prepared to go, Vasco?

WINDSTIL

by Anthony Van Roosendael – Narafi – 13' > 24/06 - 20.30 - Flagey 4
Guust has become too old for his job, whitening the lines on a football field. Despite of his wife’s and the club manager’s pleas, he refuses to go home. But why should he leave?