National Competition 6
05.09 – 18.00 – VENDÔME 1
07.09 – 15.30 – VENDÔME 1
08.09 – 20.30 – VENDÔME 1
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.
Mother’s
Hippolyte Leibovici
Pays Belgium
Genre Documentary
- 22' - Color
The documentary portrays a family of Brussels Drag Queens over four generations during an evening in the dressing room. As the male traits are feminised under layers of make-up and alcohol, hearts open up. Difficult subjects are broached (suicide, coming out or maternal love, for example), jokes are made and generational shock is inevitably part of the discussion.
FKTF (French Kissing Tooth Fairy)
Aline Boyen
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 19' - Color
Teenagers Maxime and her best friend Giulia are competing with each other in a strange game of broadening their sexual experiences as quickly as possible. They push each other further and further until, without realising it, Maxime ends up in a sexting video.
Lapin perdu
Bertrand Lissoir
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 21'59'' - Black & White
Depressed since the death of his wife, Jef no longer goes out. Then, one weekend, his goddaughter, Lili, entrusts him with her little rabbit, Jacques. But when Jacques takes off, who would have imagined that Jef’ life would get yet more complicated?
Désert
Frédéric Daenen, Colin Javaux
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 19'59'' - Color
At Night. In the center of a country village. Four young men get out of an old car. They swore to each other an eternal friendship based on smokes, drinks and a dreamed future. Tonight, they celebrate the robbery of a small drug dealer from another village. One of them open the stolen bag, their award. What is inside will challenge them till the sun comes up.
Il Padrino
Jean-Luc Couchard
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
- 7'59'' - Color
It's the first day of the young Gaetano's career as a driver for Tony Casaro, one of the most dangerous leaders of criminal networks, but on that day things don't go as planned. Is young Gaetano going to make it?