Focus : Short Films

Silva crosses the desert on horseback to find Jake, whom he met twenty-five years earlier when they were both hitmen.

Astronauts set foot on the red earth of the Oman desert before the unbelieving eyes of the Bedouin. Two high school girls build castles in the air. A young ...

Kwinten is proud of his Dad who is the commander of a naval ship. But a new mission takes his Dad to sea again for three months. Kwinten waits for postcards ...

Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It’s the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the ...

July 1996, the beach, the sea, the sun. Sophie, 10, spends her summer vacations with her mother and her cousin Laurence. But Laurence has grown up and ...

During a large-scale search in the oldest nature park of East Belgium, the authorities clash with a local forester. This confrontation develops from bad ...

In order to finish his script, Jonas, a desperate young director, accepts the conditions imposed on him by his producer: to rework his screenplay with ...

Sebastian found an audio tape on which Ludo, his recently deceased friend, plays a calm guitar arpeggio. Obsessed by this audio fragment, Sebastian has ...

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Antoine, a failed musician, lives with his sick old father, Gabriel, a loudmouth Elvis fan. Gabriel blames Antoine for his failures and his professional ...

Bobby would live a simple life... if only he wasn’t constantly hearing a voice in his head.

In order to help her parents who are affected by the crisis in Spain, Erika leaves for a job on the Costa Dorada seacoast. There, she will sing for tourists ...

Els, a former surgeon, and the Palestinian refugee Sulayman happen to sit opposite each other on the train. There is nothing that suggests the great impact ...

Jules, 18, spends his holidays in the naturist campsite of his childhood. He is torn between his attraction for Karim, a seasonal worker and his mothers ...

A cow. A calf. Utility animals in a giant industry? Or animals with feelings and rights? A different view on animal husbandry. A story about the fate of ...

'Saigon sur Marne' is a testimony about the life of a grey-haired french-vietnamese couple between Saigon and Paris'suburb.

Serge and his four colleagues work in a small company that has just been brought out by a large corporation. As a welcoming gift, they are invited by their ...

Every morning, Cécile takes her car for her round as a nurse in the countryside of Bordeaux. With her presence both distant and reassuring, she treats, ...

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Raissa and Alio (17 and 18 y.o.) share the same room in a shelter since their childhood. One evening, when Raissa comes back to the shelter, she discovers ...

The portrait of the family of a Brussels drag queen composed of four generations in their dressing rooms during a show. As facial features ae covered by ...

Sixteen-year-old Lucia wants to get rid of two things more than anything: her lice & her virginity.

Gillingham, UK, 2018. Mike, a music producer in free fall, Dan, a sound engineer who is tired of his job, Murphy, the autistic brother with his headphones ...

In Thierry's living room, several people have gathered. None of them know each other but they are all there to try and fulfil the same dream. They want ...

The short film is built on the animation game, visual associations, the magic of classical music and symbolism of colors: yellow as pleasure and violet ...

Jerry Jones, a manager, tells Jane, his secretary, that he is in love with an ideal woman. In a dream he meets Eva: the ideal woman and he falls in love ...

After her daughter's death, Vivianne neglects herself and her house. Since twenty years, she tries to fill up emptiness with stuff. But the situation becomes ...

A story that reflects the Lebanese society through a family whose members' lives are suspended, like everything else in the country.

'"Weleer/Once" tells the the rise and fall of an entire cardboard society. It's about construction from scratch, nostalgia for 'village life' and the intrigues ...

A nasty short with lots of meat.

Europeans gave its name to America soon after “finding” it. How did this happen exactly? A playful flashback on fake news at the times of the nascent printing ...

A Kurdish woman is sentenced to six years of house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet. The charge: supporting terrorist activities. From now on an ...

In 2016 a controversial deal was signed between the European Union and Turkey to stop refugees from making the short, yet perilous crossing to the Greek ...

Lucien is a farmer, living together with his wife far away from society. When he drives his tractor in the field, he has an accident.

Dany wears threadbare clothes, drinks cheap beer and steals purses from old ladies. She is alone with her misery until she meets an illegal worker.

A humorous account of the origins of the nation of Belgium and of the pivotal role of its first king, Léopold.

August is a carefree boy who likes to discover the world and to play outside with his best friend Lize. One day, he encounters the seamy side of life and ...

One evening, 38-year-old Frank returns to his quiet residential house where his family has organised a surprise birthday party. Everybody is present: his ...

A world where fish and food are stuck in a state of quantum indeterminacy. Using 3D animation mixed with live action, Glucose reshapes our everyday environment. ...

A story about a hunter's son, who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves.

Right-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet, white neighbourhoods where people are shielded from ...

A Michael Jackson impersonator dedicates his whole life to the perfection of his act.

It's white and windy all around. A gigantic figure emerges from behind the snow curtain and hits the road. It passes towns, villages, houses, to land on ...

Matt is dead for a year. Simon wants to redeem his debt. Charlotte is in love with another. Aunt Babs wants to keep her family together. Tom... Tom knows ...

Somewhere, lost among the majestic fjords and snowy peaks, mysterious postmodern monuments bear witness to an ambiguous human presence that has attempted ...

Short film about images of the military.

A young woman dreams of making it big in the world of hip hop, but her parents demand that she finish her university degree. She dutifully agrees to complete ...

Night and Fog represents the peak of director Alain Resnais' activities as a short-subject filmmaker. Framed as a documentary, the film is an unsettling ...

“Masarat” means “road” or “course” in Arabic. It is the name of a cultural festival dedicated to Palestine in the French community of Belgium during autumn ...

A man waits, endlessly, for his wife to finish getting ready before going to a ball...