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01.09.2021 – 21.30 – Vendôme
Each year, the Next Generation competition presents a selection of films made by students in Belgian and international film schools.
56 films were selected amongst more than 1700 films received (in 2020 + 2021).
In addition to the films selected in 2021, the 24th edition of the BSFF also welcomes the international films selected for the Next Generation Competition in 2020 which had to be postponed.
Pale Saint
Rhys Jones
Pays Ireland
Genre Fiction
- 15' - Color
Seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant Kat struggles to adjust to her new life in the UK.
Et après ?
Marine Follonier
Pays Belgium
Genre Fiction
2020 - 14'06'' - Couleur
Muets et quasi-immobiles derrière un miroir sans tain, Gilles et Vanessa, un couple de trentenaires, assistent à l’interrogatoire de leur fille. Âgée de 6 ans, Agathe explique l’attouchement sexuel dont elle a été victime.
Agua
Santiago Zermeño
Pays Mexico
Genre Fiction
2020 - 14' - Couleur
Camilo, a teenager rower from a traditional pier in Xochimilco, is secretly exploring his sexual desires with another man. One day he thinks he's been discovered by Beto, a fellow rower. When Camilo confronts him, he ends up accidentally unveiling his homosexuality. Shocked, Camilo reacts violently and decides to flee from Xochimilco.
Que no me roben los sueños
Zoé Brichau
Pays Belgium
Genre Documentary
2020 - 28'33" - Couleur
At the end of 2019, the revolution breaks out in Chile. A group of friends take part in the demonstrations and campaign as best they can. While they photograph, film and put up posters, they experience the inequalities they are fighting against on a daily basis.
Nacionalines premijos laureatu vaikai
Kamile Milasiute
Pays Lithuania
Genre Fiction
2018 - 12' - Color
Ieva and Kasparas, sister and brother, are locked out of their home. Their mother has shut the door from the inside and is out of reach. The older sister Dovilė is their last hope, but even with her being there, there’s nothing they can do, but wait.
Ballast
Daniel Howlid
Pays Poland
Genre Fiction
2020 - 18' - Couleur
Family reunion. Lack of adult attention, educational mistakes and disrupted bonds and relationships trigger destructive behaviour in a bored and lonely little boy from whom there is no turning back.