ESFAA 1
26.04.2022 – 20.30 – Vendôme
A selection of the very best European short films of last year awarded with a national audience award. After winnning the favour of their national audience, 9 short films are now on a quest to win the hearts of 511 million Europeans, frist stop : Brussels! You, Belgian public, are the first one to vote !
Harta
Julia de Paz Solvas
Pays Spain
Genre Fiction
2021 - 23'19" - Couleur
Carmela, a 12-year-old girl, on her birthday, is forced to meet her father in a family meeting centre, due to the sentence of gender violence that he has against her mother.
We have one heart
Katarzyna Warzecha
Pays Poland
Genre Documentary
2020 - 10'00" - Couleur
After his mother’s death, Adam finds his parents’ correspondence. A love adventure entangled in the 20th century, when the world was cut in two and the war between Iran and Iraq marked the start of tragic conflicts in the Middle East.
Nanu Tudor
Olga Lucovnicova
Pays Belgium
Genre Documentary
2020 - 20'04" - Couleur
In intimate close-ups the camera captures an idyllic scene that seems to belong to a different era: ripe cherries, black-and-white photographs and a summerhouse full of memories of the seemingly carefree childhoods of several generations. Old aunties talk about the past and Uncle Tudor, too, answers the filmmaker’s questions. Little by little, she confronts him with her trauma, for which he is responsible.
Partir un jour
Amélie Bonnin
Pays France
Genre Fiction
2021 - 25' - Color
With his high school diploma in hand, Julien left his hometown to build a bigger life in the capital, leaving his memories behind. But one day he has to return, and that day, his memories come rushing back at him, between two packs of Pepito biscuits.