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National Competition 5

06.09 – 20.30 – VENDÔME 1
08.09 – 13.00 – GALERIES
09.09 – 18.00 – 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.

Plaqué Or

Chloé Léonil

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 25' - Color
Inès, 16 years old, is determined to find a job when she meets Martin, a boy from the nice neighborhoods of Brussels. Feeling something between shame and fascination, she becomes brutally aware of social injustice.

On n’est pas près d’être des super-héros

Lia Bertels

Pays Belgium, Portugal
Genre Animation
2019 - 13' - Color
When you’re a child, there’s this fragile moment where the boundary between fantasy and reality is shattered. This is the testimony of these children between two worlds, to whom the word was given freely.

Night Trip

Nicolas Boucart

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 5'21'' - Color
The last innertrip of a heroin addict overdosing.

Da Yie

Anthony Nti

Pays Belgium, Ghana
Genre Fiction
- 20'34'' - Color
On a sunny day in Ghana, a foreigner approaches two children and takes them on an unexpected trip. The three of them get along so well that "Bogah", the foreigner, starts to question his initial intentions...

La Ressource Humaine

Adriana da Fonseca

Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 24'55'' - Color
Camille, fragile and dreamy, lives in her bubble, out of the world that frightens her. But she has no choice, she has to work. From one day to the next, she finds herself catapulted into the ruthless world of a company.