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National Competition 1

03.09 – 19.00 – VENDÔME 1 
07.09 – 20.30 – VENDÔME 1
09.09 – 15.30 – GALERIES


Chosen from the 318 submissions, 34 films will compete in 7 programmes in the National Competition.

Winners of the Grand Prix in the International and National Competitions are considered for pre-selection of the Oscars® in the category of Best Fiction/Animation Short Film provided that the film complies with the Academy’s rules.

Juillet 96

Michèle Jacob

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 25' - Color
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 her mother's thoughts are elsewhere. While the whole country is still looking for two missing little girls, Sophie discovers that this will be her last summer as a child.

Les Glaçons

Sara Dufossé

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 10'25'' - Color
On a sunny spring day, Louise wakes up with a violent toothache. Her lightning pain is not going away whatever she does. At the same time, her ex-fiancé Jerome decides to pay her a visit. He is determined to talk and to finally split up their stuff. "The ice Cubes" tells the story of a past relationship and what's left of it after a few months, shot in a single take.

A l’usage des vivants

Pauline Fonsny

Pays Belgium
Genre Documentary
- 27' - Color/B&W
In 1998, Semira Adamu, a 20 year-old, so-called “illegal”, Nigerian immigrant on Belgian soil, was smothered to death by a police cushion as they attempted to evict her. 20 years later, in a combined female war cry, two women tell her story.

The Memory Shop

Christiaan Neu

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 17'08'' - Color
An elderly lady enters The Memory Shop in 2036. Advanced technology makes it possible nowadays that you can relive memories and have them registered to take back home. For a moment she goes back to the Lac de Berléand on the 7th of May 1990, to experience an intense, loving memory with her meanwhile demented husband.

Famille Nucléaire

Faustine Crespy

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 19'12'' - Color
Jules, 18 years old, reluctantly spends his holidays in the naturist campsite of his childhood. He is torn between his attraction for the beautiful Karim, a seasonal worker on the textile beach, and the depression of his mother Adèle, who refuses to let him grow up.